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Thank you for the precisions! I'll check the french text when I'm home, now I'm also curious about this scene heheheTo be fair, I've been reading the books in publishing order because I felt it's PROBABLY the way to go about this, but some stories jump around like in one of the later books Lupin meets the Countess of Cagliostro but timeline wise it fits prior to some of the other books. Haven't actually read up to that point myself but I saw a website that actually put the events of the books in order at some point during my internet surfing. I wish I was further along in the series since it's so long but alas, 813 genuinely made me mad and made me have to quit reading for a bit LOL but there was whole segments of really great homoerotic tension but it doesn't make up for how I felt about the ending.
Also the scene in question is in the second story of the vs. Herlock book (chapter 2 of the Jewish Lamp). Keep in mind that De Mattos has translated Herlock Sholmes as "Holmlock Shears" mostly due to the fact this was originally published in the UK, and "Herlock Sholmes" is a little TOO close to Sherlock Holmes for any standard English citizen too ignore when Conan Doyle was still active and expressed displeasure at his detective popping up in the Arsène Lupin series in the first short story compilation.
De Mattos:
Morehead:
Both translations Lupin is taunting but I prefer De Mattos because what's gayer than this? A gentleman thief "valiantly" defending one of his rivals (Holmlock Shears) while facing down another (Ganimard), then thumping his chest and challenging him to shoot through his heart?? Meanwhile Morehead's translation is kinda goofy to me it feels just a bit slapstick with him ducking behind Sholmes and doing a teehepero while Ganimard is trying to figure out a way to aim around Sholmes.
And I feel you about 813! I finished it a month ago and yeah the ending is uh... special? I think after the 813 book Arsène Lupin's going through his patriotic era, so lots of militar stuff and war history, although that's what I've been told, I haven't read the rest of it yet!