Love and Sacrifice

Romantic and familial love motivate acts of sacrifice and rescue, such as Yvonne d'Origny's desperate efforts to save her son, and Lupin's intervention to protect women in distress, though love is often entangled with danger and manipulation.

Yvonne's enduring, ideal love for Horace Velmont (Lupin) and Lupin's act of restoring her son.

Love and Sacrifice is one of the patterns The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.