Fantômette's alter ego, Françoise Dupont, is a girl of about twelve years who dresses up in order to fight crime.
In 1957, the author, Georges Chaulet (1931–2012), proposed his first series, Les 4 As au collège, to Hachette, one of the biggest French publishers.
In 2006, to celebrate the 150 years of the Bibliothèque rose and after an eighteen-year absence, Georges Chaulet wrote a new adventure for his favorite heroine: Le Retour de Fantômette.
Here is the complete list of the Fantômette novels in their original order of publication: The series was first adapted in 1993 (21 episodes of 24 minutes) starring Katia Sourzac.
The action takes place in an international metropolis named Furtive-Ville instead of the small fictive French city of Framboisy.