History of modern literature born. Mikhail Lermontov published "A Hero of Our Time" In 1841 Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé died. Edgar Allan Poe published two short stories: "A Descent into the Maelström" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The latter introduced the fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin. Mikhail Lermontov was killed in a duel. In 1842, Nikolai Gogol published "Dead Souls". In 1843 the transatlantic author Henry James was born. Edgar Allan Poe published a poem: "Lenore" and four short stories: "The Gold-Bug", "The Black Cat", "The Tell-Tale Heart" and a C. Auguste Dupin short story called "The Mystery of Marie Roget".
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin "Principia Juris Civilis", 5 vols. (1806); "Mémoires et plaidoyers de 1800 au 1ier janvier 1830", in 20 vols.; and "Mémoires ou souvenirs du barreau", in 4 vols. (1855–1857). His brother, Pierre Charles François Dupin, was a mathematician. André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1 February 17838 November 1865), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly. Dupin was born at Varzy, in the Nièvre "département", in France. He was educated by his father, who was a lawyer of eminence, and at an early age