Flambeau (character)
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Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton who appears in the five volumes of in total 48 short stories, of the Father Brown series. His name is an Anglicized version of the French "flambeaux", which can be translated as "torches".
He made his first appearance in the story "The Blue Cross" and assisted Father Brown as a reformed criminal in a number of other short stories. As a criminal, Flambeau is an elusive source of worry for the law-enforcers. He is exposed by Father Brown early on, and perhaps as a result becomes a detective himself.
Flambeau is an interesting and idiosyncratic character for conventional detective fiction, which tends to split humanity into the "good" and the "bad". As a priest, Father Brown has to see things in a much more gradated light, and to consider the possibility of redemption. He is Flambeau's friend before he reforms him, and this is partially how he reforms him.
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- Online text of "The Blue Cross"
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