Raymond Lindon (26 December 1901 – 25 January 1992) was a French magistrat, First Advocate General at the Court of Cassation and mayor of the French town of Etretat from May 1929 to March 1959. He was the son of

Alfred Lindon Alfred Lindon (born Abner Lindenbaum; – 1948) was a Polish jeweller from a poor Jewish background who became an expert on pearls. He married into the Citroën family and built an important collection of modern art that was looted by the Nazis i ...

and Fernande Citroën."In 1940 Paris, there was little time to mourn the loss of art."
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'', 17 January 2004. canada.com Retrieved 31 January 2015. He was a member of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

. Lindon, who, under the pen name of Valère Catogan, itself an anagram of ''avocat général'', wrote the

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, ''Le Secret des rois de France ou la véritable identité d'

Arsène Lupin Arsène Lupin (French pronunciation: ʁsɛn lypɛ̃ is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazi ...

'', where it is shown that

Maurice Leblanc Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French c ...

's creation is the true heir to the French throne. Lindon's book was published in 1955 by ''

les Éditions de Minuit Les Éditions de Minuit (, ''Midnight Press'') is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1941, during the French Resistance of World War II, and is still publishing books today. History Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and i ...

''. Among his other works was the article " Eugène Le Poittevin et ses bains de mer" in ''La Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', December 1967, about the artist whose paintings captured the Parisian social circle that flocked to the beach of Etretat in the 1860s. One of Raymond Lindon's grandchildren is acclaimed French actor,

Vincent Lindon Vincent Lindon (born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. For his role in the film '' The Measure of a Man'' (2015), Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor at the 41st César Awards and the IFFI Best Actor A ...

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