"French, from my world." He says cheerfully. "A fictional thief, supposedly the best in the world, and a gentleman to boot! If you like, the perfect foil for Sherlock Holmes, although they were writen by different authors, and so never actually met. TECHNICALLY. There were... well. The author of Lupin did sneak in references to a detective who was very clearly meant to be Holmes, but he didn't have the rights to do so, so he had to be quite oblique."