Question: Build a movie plot around this: Whose stories does the movie refer to? Many of the Maurice Leblanc's Arsene Lupin stories, including "The Arrest of Arsene Lupin",
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As a boy in the 1880s, Arsene is being taught fencing by his father Theophraste Lupin. They live at the Chateau of his mother's family, the Dreux-Soubises. When the police tries to arrest Theophraste for thievery, he flees on horseback. Late at night, he returns to persuade Arsene to help him steal jewellery from his uncle, a collier that once belonged to Marie Antoinette.When the theft is discovered, the uncle makes Arsene and his mother leave the house. On the roadside, they are horrified see a murdered man who wears Theophraste's ring.15 years later, young Arsene is on a cruise ship from Africa to Le Havre, gallantly stealing jewellery from the ladies. Back in France, he visits his dying mother in the hospital. She tells him that his father's murder has visited her - then she dies.At her funeral, Arsene meets again his cousin Clarisse. She invites him home and spends the night with him. But Arsene doesn't want to stay - he wants to find his father's murder. He feels that his uncle knows more than he admits, so he follows him to a secret meeting. A group of men around a descendant of the French royal family wants to end the Republic and reinstall monarchy in France. To complete this task, they are searching for a treasure that has been hidden by Marie Antoinette. They need several crosses from abbeys and cathedrals all over France to give them clues. Arsene witnesses Josephine, la comtesse de Cagliostro, being brought in and condemned to death for sabotaging the group and hiding Marie Antoinette's jewellery. Arsene understands that this is the jewellery that he himself had stolen for his father. He saves Josephine and becomes her lover.A member of the group, Beaumagnan, tries to warn Arsene against Josephine, but she in return warns Arsene against Beaumagnan. When Arsene breaks into the Louvre to discover another cross, he finds himself framed with the murder of the night guard. Still he has no idea who is framing him - Beaumagnan, Josephine or someone else?Things culminate at a ball, where Arsene,...