Les Six Napoléons - Arthur Conan Doyle

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Résumé :
Nouvelle faisant partie du recueil: Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes. Les Six Napol?ons, aussi traduite Les Six ? Napol?ons ? (The Adventure of the Six Napoleons en version originale), est l'une des cinquante-six nouvelles d'Arthur Conan Doyle mettant en sc?ne le d?tective Sherlock Holmes. Elle est parue pour la premi?re fois le 30 avril 1904 dans l'hebdomadaire am?ricain Collier's Weekly, avant d'?tre regroup?e avec d'autres nouvelles dans le recueil Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes). R?sum? Myst?re initial L'inspecteur Lestrade est perplexe face ? une s?rie de petits actes criminels li?s. Un fou d?truit des bustes de Napol?on Ier sans raison en s'infiltrant chez les propri?taires. Dans ce r?cit, Sherlock Holmes et son acolyte, le docteur Watson vont devoir d?couvrir pourquoi une ?trange personne s'introduit chez les gens pour d?truire les statues de Napol?on 1er.

Biographie:
Arthur Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland-died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes-one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle's 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother's lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh's Medical School. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis. Arthur Conan Doyle 1 of 2 Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle, c. 1900. Sherlock Holmes 2 of 2 Sherlock HolmesBritish actor Basil Rathbone as Detective Sherlock Holmes. While a medical student, Conan Doyle was deeply impressed by the skill of his professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in observing the most minute detail regarding a patient's condition. This master of diagnostic deduction became the model for Conan Doyle's literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, a novel-length story published in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887. Other aspects of Conan Doyle's medical education and experiences appear in his semiautobiographical novels, The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) and The Stark Munro Letters (1895), and in the collection of medical short stories Round the Red Lamp (1894). (See also Sherlock Holmes: Pioneer in Forensic Science.) Conan Doyle's creation of the logical, cold, calculating Holmes, the world's first and only consulting detective, sharply contrasted with the paranormal beliefs Conan Doyle addressed in a short novel of this period, The Mystery of Cloomber (1889). Conan Doyle's early interest in both scientifically supportable evidence and certain paranormal phenomena exemplified the complex diametrically opposing beliefs he struggled with throughout his life....

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