 " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " was one of the earliest of Poe 's works to be translated into French . Between June 11 and June 13 , 1846 , " Un meurtre sans exemple dans les Fastes de la Justice " was published in La Quotidienne , a Paris newspaper . Poe 's name was not mentioned and many details , including the name of the Rue Morgue and the main characters ( " Dupin " became " Bernier " ) , were changed . On October 12 , 1846 , another uncredited translation , renamed " Une Sanglante Enigme " , was published in Le Commerce . The editor of Le Commerce was accused of plagiarizing the story from La Quotidienne . The accusation went to trial and the public discussion brought Poe 's name to the attention of the French public . 
