Goron, Marie-François
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1847-1933) French soldier from 1865, and police officer from 1881, eventually head of the Sûreté, best known for Les Memoires de M Goron: Ancien Chef de la Sûreté ["Memoires of Monsieur Goron: Former Head of the Sûreté"] (1897). With Émile Gautier, he wrote the Fleur de Bagne sequence – Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain (1901 Le Journal; 1902 3vols; trans Brian Stableford as Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 1: From Devil's Island to the City of Lights 2013 pod, Volume 2: Cosmopolitan Pirates 2013 pod, and Volume 3: Scientific Detectives and Bandits 2013) [for full titles see Checklist], in which an amoral master criminal (see Antihero), armed with a supply of base metals transmuted into gold (see Transmutation) – supplied to him by a naive anarchist Scientist – takes over Paris, aided by a heavier-than-air flying machine. [JC]
Marie-François Goron
born Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France: 2 March 1847
died Sannois, Val d'Oise, France: 4 February 1933
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Fleur de Bagne
- Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain: 1: De Cayenne à la Place Vendôme (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1902) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [first appeared 1901 Le Journal: Fleur de Bagne: binding unknown/]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 1: From Devil's Island to the City of Lights (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: introduction by translator to all three volumes: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain: 2: Pirates Cosmopolites (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1902) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [first appeared 1901 Le Journal: Fleur de Bagne: binding unknown/]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 2: Cosmopolitan Pirates (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Fleur de Bagne, roman contemporain: 3: Détectives et Bandits Scientifiques (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1902) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [first appeared 1901 Le Journal: Fleur de Bagne: binding unknown/]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 3: Scientific Detectives and Bandits (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [omni of volumes 1, 2 and 3 above: trans by Brian Stableford: Fleur de Bagne: pb/Jean-Claude Claeys]
- Spawn of the Penitentiary: Volume 3: Scientific Detectives and Bandits (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2013) with Émile Gautier, writing together as Goron [ebook: trans by Brian Stableford of the above: Fleur de Bagne: na/Jean-Claude Claeys]
nonfiction
- Les Memoires de M Goron: Ancien Chef de la Sûreté ["Memoires of Monsieur Goron: Former Head of the Sûreté"] (Paris: E Flammarion, 1897) [nonfiction: subsequently broken into four volumes not here listed: binding unknown/]
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