Louis Forest’s On vole des enfants à Paris (1908), or Someone Is Stealing Children in Paris, radioactive material is used to exponentially increase the intelligence of ordinary children and turn them into “supermen”: “To produce genius in the brain of one of my little fellows, I insert a particle – a grain – of this radium-flaxium at the very spot where lies the faculty, the intellectual function I wish to multiply a hundredfold.”
First Appearance “Le Voleur d’enfants” / “On vole des enfants à Paris” (25 Jun–23 Sep 1906) by Louis Forest serialized in Le Matin
First Publisher Le Matin
Appearance List “Le Voleur d’enfants” / “On vole des enfants à Paris” (25 Jun–23 Sep 1906) by Louis Forest serialized in Le Matin; On vole des enfants à Paris: roman extraordinaire (1908) — “Le Livre National rouge”, no. 17; On vole des enfants à Paris: roman extraordinaire (1909) (book edition); Someone Is Stealing Children in Paris adapted/translated by Brian Stableford for Black Coat Press.
Description Louis Forest’s On vole des enfants à Paris (1908), or Someone Is Stealing Children in Paris, radioactive material is used to exponentially increase the intelligence of ordinary children and turn them into “supermen”: “To produce genius in the brain of one of my little fellows, I insert a particle – a grain – of this radium-flaxium at the very spot where lies the faculty, the intellectual function I wish to multiply a hundredfold.”
