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Nom Oublié

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January 15 Prompt: any, any, I've got a lame claim to fame, written for Poe's "The Purloined Letter" featuring C. Auguste Dupin.

The Prefect of the Parisian police was a model of discretion and would not have revealed M. Dupin’s involvement in this most sensitive case even to save his own skin, were it the king himself who demanded it.

Nevertheless, he denied the name thrust at him firstly due to not recalling it at all. The genius’s unassuming friend was such a contrast of normality, without any obvious merit or ability: his only je ne sais quoi was choosing to voluntarily associate and even lodge with an oddity like Dupin in that dark, decrepit house.

Date: 2023-01-15 05:01 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Prompt: any, any, I've got a lame claim to fame.

Translations:
nom oublié means "forgotten name,"
je ne sais quoi means "i don't know what" or "an intangible quality."