Eugène-François Vidocq (French: [øʒɛn fʁɑ̃swa vidɔk]; 24 July 1775 – 11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several...

directed by Pitof, starring Gérard Depardieu as historical figure Eugène François Vidocq pursuing a supernatural serial killer. It is notable as being the...

Signe Hasso and Carole Landis. It loosely depicts the life of Eugène François Vidocq, a French criminal who reformed and became a famous French Prefect...

The Vidocq Society is a members-only crime-solving club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named for Eugène François Vidocq, the ground-breaking 19th...

However, his dark past still follows him... Vincent Cassel as Eugène-François Vidocq Freya Mavor as Annette Denis Ménochet as Dubillard August Diehl...

confidence trick originating by at least the early 19th century, as Eugène François Vidocq described in his memoirs. In its original form, the confidence trickster...

Valjean's character is loosely based on the life of the ex-convict Eugène François Vidocq. Vidocq became the head of an undercover police unit and later founded...

often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases. In 1833, Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal, and privateer, founded the first known...

founded 1749, served a similar purpose at times. Founded in 1812 by Eugène François Vidocq, who headed it until 1827, it was the inspiration for Scotland Yard...

Finland, Iceland, and Norway.[citation needed] In the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, the character Belle-Rose disparages parfait d'amour: "... they...

Vidocq may refer to: Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857), a 19th century criminal-turned-crime fighter; founder of the French National Police and the first...

work in a variety of ways throughout the course of history, but Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857) developed the first organized (though informal) undercover...

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grifter-turned-policeman named Eugène François Vidocq published a pair of sensationalized memoirs recounting his criminal exploits. Balzac met Vidocq in April 1834, and...

Nadine Vogel and René Ferté. The film is based on the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq. Vidocq was a criminal in nineteenth century Paris who changed sides...

Police Act, passed by Parliament in 1829. Peel, with the help of Eugène-François Vidocq, selected the original site on Whitehall Place for the new police...

based on the life of Eugène François Vidocq, an early nineteenth century criminal turned crime-fighter. A previous series Vidocq had been made in 1967...

L'Empereur de Paris, about early 18th-century French criminalist Eugène François Vidocq, the man who is considered the first private detective. She also...

against the ailment, by Sarrazin the general in Memoirs of Vidocq (1828) by Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857): "How much fatter should you be, if I put you...

life of Eugène François Vidocq, an ex-convict who became a successful businessman widely noted for his social engagement and philanthropy. Vidocq helped...

first private detective agency was founded in Paris in 1833 by Eugène François Vidocq, who had headed a police agency in addition to being a criminal...

Mill Prison in Portsmouth, England. Smedley eventually escaped. Eugène-François Vidocq a French criminal turned criminalist, and considered to be the father...

Phantom of the Opera, and incorporating the historical character Eugène François Vidocq. The final film of AIP's "Poe cycle," Murders in the Rue Morgue...

(the most famous example - Les Vrais Mystères de Paris (1844) by Eugène François Vidocq). In preparation for filming, Alex Mizgirev reviewed the movie The...

(Morrow), set in Paris in 1818, follows the real-life detective Eugène François Vidocq as he investigates the mystery surrounding Marie Antoinette's son...

Harry (1945) as Harry Melville Quincey A Scandal in Paris (1946) as Eugène François Vidocq The Strange Woman (1946) as John Evered The Private Affairs of Bel...

antiquity, modern undercover operations were scaled up in France by Eugène François Vidocq in the early 19th century, and included the use of unlawful tactics...

Javert is loosely based on Eugène François Vidocq, a criminal and adventurer who became a police official (though Vidocq wrote that he never arrested...

Pixérécourt (1773–1844) Sophie Ristaud Cottin (Madame Cottin) (1773–1807) Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857) Claire de Duras (Madame de Duras) (1777–1828) Ambroise...

criticism under this name. Balzac was inspired to the character by Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857) a former criminal who later became chief of the Paris...