Fantomette is a character in the French "Bibliothèque Rose" series from Hachette Editions, created in 1961 by Georges Chaulet. Fantomette's alter ego

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, Françoise, is a girl of about twelve years who dresses up in order to fight crime

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. She has two sidekick

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s: Ficelle

Ficelle

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, a tall and not-very-bright blonde; and Boulotte, a short and chubby brunette who is fixated on food. Neither of them are aware of her secret identity

Secret identity

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, despite meeting Fantomette regularly.

Fantomette was the first female superhero

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 in French literature

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. The Fantomette books were aimed at eight- to twelve-year-old girls. There are 49 books in the series, which is still published today, as well as a comic book

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 series by François Craenhals

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, a cartoon

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 and a 1993 live-action TV series starring Katia Sourzac.