French Police Officers - French Police Chiefs, French Police Officers Convicted of Murder, Maurice Papon, Paul Touvier, Eugene Francois Vidocq (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: French police chiefs, French police officers convicted of murder, Maurice Papon, Paul Touvier, Eugene Francois Vidocq, Joseph Fouche, Antoine de Sartine, Louis Lepine, Rene Bousquet, Daniel Morelon, Leon Bourgeois, Alphonse Bertillon, Elie, duc Decazes, Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary, Celestin Hennion, Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie, Rene Herault, Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Henri-Auguste Loze, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Jacques de Bernonville, Armand Mouyal, Nicolas Rene Berryer, Jacques Claude Beugnot, Marc-Rene de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Jean-Paul Proust, Maurice Grimaud, Marc Caussidiere, Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Philippe Massoni, Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, Georges Nguyen Van Loc, Jean Chiappe, Emile de Keratry, Jean Leguay, Roger Borniche, Gabriel Taschereau de Baudry, Olivier Marchal, Pierre Bonny, Lucien Aime-Blanc, Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert, Bernard Gerard, Louis Thiroux de Crosne. Excerpt: Eugene Francois Vidocq (French pronunciation: July 23, 1775 - May 11, 1857) was a French criminal and criminalist whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac. A former crook who subsequently became the founder and first director of the crime-fighting Surete Nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective agency, he is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French police. He is also regarded as the first private detective. Eugene Francois Vidocq was born in the night from 23 to 24 July 1775 as the third child of the baker Nicolas Joseph Francois Vidocq (1744-1799) and his wife Henriette Francoise Vidocq (1744-1824, nee Dion) in Arras in the Rue du Mirroir-de-Venise. Little is known about the childhood of Vidocq, most of it from his ghost-written autobiography and a few documents in French archives. His father was ...