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Eugène François Vidocq
Eugène François Vidocq (
Biography
Most of the information about Vidocq's early life comes from his ghost-written
At the age of 14 he stole some money from his parents' bakery and skipped town. He planned to sail to
He was not a model
The
Vidocq moved to
In 1798, he moved to the
In 1801, he became a paramour of the daughter of a town warden while pretending to be an Austrian. When the constabulary closed in, they moved to
In Douai, Procurator-General Ransom convinced Vidocq to appeal for a re-trial. He waited five months – during which time Louise Chevalier sent word she was divorcing him – and escaped again. Vidocq tried to make a living as a
In May, 1809 Vidocq grew tired of a life always on the run. He had again tried to become a legitimate merchant, but his former wife had found him in Paris and blackmailed him for money (which he didn't have) and a couple of former fellow convicts forced him to fence for them. He therefore offered his services as a police spy to the Paris police in exchange for an
Vidocq began as an
Finally, Vidocq suggested the formation of a plainclothes unit, the "Brigade de Sûreté" ("Security Brigade") (that later became the Sûreté Nationale), which was done during 1812. He commanded as many as 12 detectives, many of them ex-criminals like himself. During 1814, at the beginning of the
1820 Vidocq married Jeanne-Victoire Guerin who died only four years later. Vidocq's mother who was living with them died six weeks later. Her requiem was performed in
In 1824, following his coronation,
That same year, Charles X's abdication and the rule of a new monarch
Not all the police approved of his methods, and rivalries developed. During 1832 he was obliged to resign because of a charge that he instigated a crime through an intermediary for the sole purpose of getting credit for solving it. According to
He set up a paper manufacturing and printing company in
The first books he intended to publish were his memoirs. In 1828 – 1829 Vidocq had procured the services of L.F. L'Héritier de l'Ain to ghostwrite his memoirs. However, many historians consider that L'Héritier took lots of liberties with the facts. Vidocq himself seemed to agree, for he authorized only the first two of a total of four volumes. The book was still a success worldwide.
In 1833, he founded the first known
During his last years, he wrote novels based on his criminal experiences. Some historians believe that he was helped by his friend
When his wife Fleuride died in September, 1847, he retired and closed his agency, though he still occasionally worked for
In April 1857, Vidocq became paralyzed in his home in the
Legacy
Vidocq is credited with having introduced record-keeping, criminology and
It is believed a story about Vidocq inspired
Dumas' M. Jackal, a character in "Les Mohicans de Paris" has Vidocq's Sherlock Holmes-like qualities in crime-solving, but lacks his nearly surhuman strength. As mentioned further upwards,
In more recent works, the young Vidocq served as the inspiration for the youthful police spy "François," a secondary character in American author Susanne Alleyn's historical mystery novels "Game of Patience" [http://www.amazon.com/Game-Patience-Aristide-Ravel-Mysteries/dp/0312343639] (2006) and "A Treasury of Regrets" [http://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Regrets-Susanne-Alleyn/dp/031234371X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b] (2007), set in Paris during the Directoire (1796-97).
On screen, he was portrayed by George sanders in the 1946 movie "A Scandal in Paris", a highly fictionalized biopic, by Bernard Noël and Claude Brasseur in two popular french TV series in 1967 and 1971, and by Gérard Depardieu in Vidocq, a 2001 movie directed by
Books
* John Philip Stead: "Vidocq: A Biography" (1954)
* "Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de police de sûreté jusqu'en 1827, aujourd'hui propriétaire et fabricant de papiers à Saint-Mandé" (1828)
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References
External links
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* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/vidocq/1.html Vidocq in CrimeLibrary]
* [http://www.vidocq.org/vidocq.html Vidocq Society]
Источник: Eugène François Vidocq
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