“De la bande à Vidocq”, an illustration depicting “Vidocq’s gang”, a common nickname for the Brigade de Sûreté at the time, from Mémoires de Vidocq (Paris, 1869).
Featured on PDR in the essay Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective
According to his memoirs, Eugène-François Vidocq escaped from more than twenty prisons (sometimes dressed as a nun). Working on the other side of the law, he apprehended some 4000 criminals with a team of plainclothes agents. He founded the first criminal investigation bureau — staffed mainly with convicts — and, when he was later fired, the first private detective agency. He was one the fathers of modern criminology and had a rap sheet longer than his very tall tales. Who was Vidocq? Daisy Sainsbury investigates.
Also appearing in the essay…
Vidocq’s Gang
Date
1869
From
Mémoires de Vidocq
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