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Samenvatting van De gouden driehoek
- 8 min. leestijd
- 10 parts
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A one-legged captain saves a nurse from a kidnapping, then finds half of his own amethyst bead in her rosary.
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De gouden driehoek in het kort
Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 5 h 50 min4 h 35 min fast, 6 h 55 min slow
- Lengte
- 82.800 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1918by Maurice Leblanc
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De gouden driehoek in short
The Golden Triangle follows a wounded captain who saves a nurse from kidnappers and finds himself bound to her by a broken amethyst bead. Behind her husband's secret lies a hoard of French gold and a crime from twenty years ago. What you keep is a plot of mirrors, where a past crime is staged again for the next generation.
What De gouden driehoek is about
It is the evening of April 3, 1915, and seven crippled soldiers stand motionless behind trees in a quiet Paris square. They wait for a nurse in a blue cloak, and for the men who mean to seize her. Why would a squad of wounded veterans guard one woman?
The Golden Triangle is an adventure novel by Maurice Leblanc, the French writer who created Arsène Lupin. It is set in the first spring of the First World War. You get a one-legged captain, a gentle nurse called Little Mother Coralie, a rusty key that fits a lock it has no right to fit, and a rumor of gold worth three hundred million francs.
Voor wie is het?. Readers who love fast plots, secret hoards and old family mysteries will enjoy this one. It suits anyone who likes wartime Paris, gentleman rogues and chapters that end on a cliff edge.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A band of wounded soldiers saves a nurse
Captain Patrice Belval has a wooden leg and a bandaged head. One morning he overhears two foreigners in a restaurant. They plan to seize a woman who leaves a hospital at seven each evening. Belval guesses they mean the nurse the patients call Little Mother Coralie.
Rather than warn her, he gathers seven of her former patients, men with missing limbs and other wounds. They take their places behind trees and a kiosk in the square.
When two men leap from a taxi and grab Coralie, the soldiers spring from the shadows with sticks and crutches. The attackers flee, and the one-armed soldier Ya-Bon brings one back by the neck. Coralie begs Belval not to call the police. While they talk, the captured man dies in the hall, strangled.
Takeaway: Winning the first fight does not tell you who the enemy is.
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A declaration of love and half a bead
Once Coralie has recovered, Belval tells her plainly that he loves her.
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A rusty key opens the door to danger
The sparks send Belval hurrying toward Passy with Ya-Bon at his side.
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Torture by fire ends in a deal for millions
Colonel Fakhi wants a secret from Essarès.
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Coralie lifts a dagger and a dying voice calls
When the gang has gone, Coralie comes down the iron staircase and picks up the colonel's dagger.
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A hoard of hidden gold drives the plot
Masseron tells Belval what the fight is about.
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The old lodge becomes a sealed tomb
Belval learns that the lodge was bought by his father, Armand, who loved Coralie's mother.
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A stranger with a smile pulls them back
Belval wakes on a sofa outside the lodge, thirsty and confused.
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Wounded men demand their place in the sun
Beneath the mystery lies a plain argument about the men who came home maimed.
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A story told in doubles, symbols and cliffhangers
Leblanc builds the story on pairs.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Patrice Belval A cheerful captain with a wooden leg and a wounded head, he falls in love with his nurse and vows to protect her.
- Coralie Essarès Called Little Mother Coralie by her patients, she is a kind nurse trapped in a hated marriage and hunted by unknown enemies.
- Ya-Bon A one-armed Senegalese soldier who cannot speak, he worships his captain and guards Coralie with the strength of his single hand.
- Essarès Bey A rich Levantine banker in Paris, he keeps a dark secret about gold that his former partners will torture to learn.
- Siméon The silent secretary in scarf and yellow glasses, who knows the garden and the past and seems to watch Coralie.
- M. Masseron A retired magistrate set to find the hidden gold, he wants the affair kept quiet and hopes to win the captain's help.
- Don Luis Perenna A smiling, witty stranger who arrives to save the lovers and claims he is on a secret mission for France.
How it ends (spoiler)
Lupin leads Patrice to the answer. The gold lies inside a heap of sand on the wharf, shaped like a triangle. Coralie, buried there, is rescued alive. The old secretary is Essarès in disguise, who murdered the real Siméon, Patrice's father, and he is forced to shoot himself. Lupin offers the three hundred million to France as a loan for a new ally and slips away from the barge, leaving the police baffled.
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What is The Golden Triangle about?
It follows a wounded French captain who saves a nurse from kidnappers in 1915 Paris. Their lives are linked by a broken amethyst bead, a murder twenty years old, and a hoard of gold hidden somewhere near a house in Passy.
Is Arsène Lupin in The Golden Triangle?
Lupin joins the story midway, under the name Don Luis Perenna. He comes at the call of the captain's orderly Ya-Bon, solves clues quickly, and brings humor and cunning to the hunt for the gold.
What does the golden triangle mean?
It is a phrase found on a scrap of paper and on a wall in the old secretary's room. The characters spend much of the book guessing what it points to, and the answer is simpler than they expect.
Is The Golden Triangle a true story?
No, it is fiction by Maurice Leblanc. It is set in April 1915 in real Paris places, such as the Champs-Élysées and the Rue Raynouard in Passy, and the hunt for gold is invented.
Is The Golden Triangle easy to read?
Its chapters are short, its plot moves fast, and the dialogue is lively. The mix of danger, jokes and romance makes it easy to follow, even when the mystery thickens.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Leblanc, Maurice. The Golden Triangle. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-golden-triangle.
Leblanc, M. (2026). The golden triangle. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-golden-triangle (Original work published 1918)
Leblanc, Maurice. The Golden Triangle. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-golden-triangle.
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