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Rocambole
also: Рокамболь, Рокамболи
The swashbuckling antihero of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's enormously popular and formulaic French serial adventure novels, a byword in the era for cheap, endlessly repeatable sensational plotting.
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- Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §21 Rocamboles
The swashbuckling antihero of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's hugely popular, formulaic French serial novels -- shorthand for cheap, endlessly repeatable sensational plotting.