# M. Formerie — 813 character guide

> M. Formerie in 813 by Maurice Leblanc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Formerie

**First appearance:** 0004-iii-m-lenormand-opens-his-campaign

## Snapshot

The examining magistrate whose careful procedures keep colliding with a case that refuses to behave like a case.

## Who they are

Formerie sits at the official center of the Kesselbach-Altenheim investigation, the man whose signatures and interrogations are supposed to give the affair a shape. But the evidence keeps sliding, witnesses keep vanishing, and the detective service itself keeps changing hands beneath him, so his authority is constantly outrun by events he cannot see. He matters because his bafflement is the reader's: the machinery of justice grinding uselessly while Lupin and his shadowy adversary settle things by other means.

## Relationships

### [Arsène Lupin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/characters/arsene_lupin)

_professional_

M. Formerie is a police magistrate who officially deals with Lupin's cases, creating a formal adversarial relationship.

### [Arsène Lupin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/characters/arsene_lupin)

_professional_

M. Formerie is a police magistrate who officially deals with Lupin's cases, creating a formal adversarial relationship.

## In the story

### [II: The Blue-Edged Label](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/ii-the-blue-edged-label)

Formerie is the examining magistrate who confesses to being at sea.

### [Santé Palace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/ix-sant-palace)

The magistrate conducting the examination. He greets Lupin with a self-satisfied remark and lists 344 charges against him.

### [X: Lupin's Great Scheme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/x-lupin-s-great-scheme)

The examining magistrate visits Lupin at the Santé, agreeing to drop the assault charge in exchange for Lupin's silence.

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