Detective Diaries - Podcast 'Eugène-François Vidocq'

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Eugène-François Vidocq
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Bonjour bon appre et m'adie bon soiree bienvenue dans le journal identivie ou

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on grade Detective Diaries. Thank you to my wonderful friend Anne Charlotte,

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AC to her friends and I can assure you while I visited France many times,

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My French is no match for her fluent grasp of English. However AC's introduction is very

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out to today's podcast from Detective Diaries takes us into the heart of France to find

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the very first acknowledged private detective who was probably the founder of our profession.

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Eugène François Vidocq

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In 1833 France was under the July monarchy with King Louis Philippe I ruling as a constitutional

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citizen king supported by the Houtbaugh-Razee. The regime faced instability from both the

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legitimacy who supported the bourbon restoration and the republicans. After the 1832 June

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rebellion the government was focused on suppressing unrest and maintaining order.

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That year Je j'en forne s'wari bienvenue dans le journal Intimdidididif ou on grade 13.

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A French soldier, criminal and a privateer founded the first known private detective agency

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liburing the more so more universal for the commiss illan industry, a very grand title

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translating as the office of universal information for commiss illan industry. He hired ex-convics.

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Much of his work was to act as police in matters for which the crimes felt the police were

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not equipped or willing to do. Official law enforcement tried many many times to shut him

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down. In 1842 police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking running

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on false pretenses after he had solved an embezzlement case.

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Bidock later suspected that there'd been a setup. He was sentenced to five years and fined

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three thousand francs but the course of appeals were leased in. Bidock is credited with having

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introduced record keeping, criminology and ballistics to criminal investigation. He made the first

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plaster cast sub-sue impressions. He created an indelible ink and an unultable bomb paper

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with his printing company. Bidock has left a significant legacy in that his form of anthropometrics

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is still partially used by the French police. In explanation anthropometry or anthropometrics

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refers to the measurement of the human and the individual. It's a tool of physical anthropology

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and it's been used for identification for the purposes of understanding human physical

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variation and embarrassed attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits.

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To fully understand the icon that was Jean-François Mouled-Vidock, we need to go back to his

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code of use. He was born in July 1775 in a rast in northern France, the third child of Henriette

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Fonse-Waers-Vidock and a husband who was a baker, Nicholas. Little is known about his childhood.

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Most of it is based on a ghost written autobiography and a few documents in French archives, but his

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father was well educated and for the time very wealthy since he was also a corned dealer.

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Bidock had six siblings, not unusual for the period, two older brothers, two younger brothers

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and two younger sisters, but his teenage years were turbulent. He's described as being

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fearless, unrailedy and cunning, very talented, but also quite lazy. He spent much time in the

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armories, the fighting cause of a ra, acquired a reputation as a formidable fencer and the

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nickname "lul-bultrin", the wild boar. By stealing, he provided himself with some level of comfort.

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When he was 13, he stole his parents' silver plates and spent the proceeds from them within

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a day. Three days later, he was arrested and taken to the local jail. After ten days, he learnt

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that his father had avenged his arrest to teach him a lesson.

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Sadly, it was not a lesson that he had any intention of respecting. At the age of 14, he

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stole a large amount of money from the cash box of his parents' bakery and left for Austin,

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where he tried to embark and find a ship to the Americas. Unfortunately for him, he was

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defrauded one night and found himself suddenly penniless. To survive, he worked for a group

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of travelling entertainers. He worked hard enough to get promoted from Stableboy to play

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in a Caribbean cannibal who eats raw meat and ended up living with puppeteers, getting himself

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in trouble with them. He was banished because he flirted with the young wife of his employer.

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He then worked for some time as an assistant for peddler. He returned to his parents seeking

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forgiveness, like the prodigal son who was welcomed by his mother with open arms.

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1791 in France was a very transitional phase of the French Revolution. The monarchy changing

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status for a short period from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional one. In June King

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Louis and his family attempted to flee Paris to the world's stronghold of Morghmedey

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near the Austrian border, but they were apprehended and berén and brought back to Paris. This

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failed escape severely damaged public trust in the monarchy and accelerated the republican

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sentiment that made the French Revolution grow. During this period of turmoil, Midoc enlisted

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in the army. It wasn't a model soldier, but he's caused a lot of difficulties, but he

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didn't spend very much time in jail. When France declared war against Austria the next

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year in 1792, B.Doc participated in the battles of the first coalition, including the Battle

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of Bellnay in September. On the 1st of November, he was promoted to a court of Greladiers,

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but during his promotion 7th of May, he challenged a fellow non-commissioned officer to a duel

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which his sergeant major refused, so B.Doc hit him, striking a superior officer could

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have led to a death sentence. Quite fearful B.Doc deserted and enlisted in the 11th Schusser,

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concealing his history. On the 6th of November 1792, he fought under General D'Greureus in

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the Battle of Giammapp. A.P.L. of the next year in B.Doc's identity was revealed, he was branded

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as a deserter, so he fled into the enemy camp. After a few weeks he returned to the French,

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a Schusser kept him friend into Cedet for him, so he was allowed to rejoin the Schusser. Finally,

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he resigned from the army, because he no longer felt welcome. He was 18 when he returned

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to Arra and soon gained a reputation as a womanizer. Since his seductions often ended in duels,

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he was a cane imprisoned in Baudet from the January 1794 for another year.

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A year later, and he married, but the marriage was not a happy one, B.Doc learned that his wife

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had cheated on him with the actual, and therefore left again, this time a game to join the army.

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He didn't see his wife again until their divorce, about 15 years later. It didn't stay long in the army,

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in 1794, he spent most of his time in Brussels, which was then a hideout for crooks from all across

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Europe, and supported himself by small frauds. One day he was apprehended by the police, and as a

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deserter he had no valid papers. When asked for his identity, he described himself as a Monsieur

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Broussault from Leal and a skate while the police tried to confirm his statement.

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Historians of the time give different accounts of an organisation called Lamey

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will not, or the Golden Army. This was a loose organisation of soldiers who had deserted,

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or fused to serve in a militia, or who just wondered about living by plunder or by changing

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regiments. It was not an organised army, but a phenomenon of military delinquency and vaguency,

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which really resulted from the harsh recruitment methods. It consisted of self-appointed officers

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who in reality had neither commissions nor veterans. They were raiders,

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forging ranks and uniforms, but staying well away from the battlefield.

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B.Doc began as a lieutenant of Shusur, but soon promoted himself to become a Hussar captain.

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In this role, he met a rich widow in Brussels who became fond of him. A co-conspirator of B.Docs

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convinced her that B.Doc was a young nobleman on the run because of the French Revolution.

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Shortly before their wedding, B.Doc confessed to her that he left the city,

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but she gave him a generous gift to go with. B.Doc moved to Paris, where in typical form

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he squandered all the money the widow had given him. It went back north, joined a group of

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Bohemian chipsis, whom he later left for women he'd fallen in love with, Francine Longuer.

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When Francine left him for a real soldier, he beat the soldier up. The soldier sued him,

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and in September 1795 B.Doc found himself once again in prison sentenced to a three-month term.

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He was 20 and a quickly adapted to life. He befend the group of men, one of whom was a

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chap named Sebastian Wattell, who'd been sentenced to six years for stealing. Wattell was suddenly released,

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but the next day the local inspector noticed that the pardon was forged. B.Doc was accused of

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being implicated, but he claimed that two fellow inmates had done it. Both inmates claimed, however,

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that he helped in the fabrication and that the whole thing had been his idea.

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You may be forgiven for thinking by now that B.Doc's life was hardly the caliber of somebody responsible

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for forming the Suratine National, powers his more or less first police force,

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or indeed for becoming the world's first private detective. Stay with us because his life

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was not always like this, however, following his imprisonment, he escaped several times

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with the help of Francine, but was always captured. After one of his escapes, Francine caught him with

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another woman, whereupon he disappeared for a few days, was again picked up by the police,

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and he'd been told that Francine had been found with multiple knife wounds.

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Now he became not only accused of forgery, but also of attempted murder, Francine later claimed

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that the wounds were self-inflicted and the charge was dropped. B.Doc's contact with Francine stopped

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when she was convicted and sentenced to six months of prison for aiding the escapes.

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When B.Doc's trial for forgery came around, he was sentenced to eight years in prison.

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Several months later, he was sentenced to breast to toil in the garrays. A fellow inmate

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taught him martial arts. He tried to escape, failed, escape to game,

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and was a happy-handed a few days later, but this time the police did not recognise him as an escape

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convict. He claimed to be August DuBal, a while officials checked this claim who was put into a prison

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hospital. There, he stole the nuns' habit and escaped in disguise. He found a job as a cattle

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driver, and in this capacity, passed through Paris, through a rar, through Brussels, for on

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seven, finally Rotterdam, where we was shankied by the Dutch. After short career as a privateer,

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he was arrested again and taken to DuBal, where he was identified as B.Doc.

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He was transferred to the barn in Toulon arriving in 1799. After another failed escape, he escaped again

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in 1800, with the help of a prostitute. B.Doc returned to Arar in 1800. His father had died

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the previous year. He hidden his mother's house for about six months before he was recognised,

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and once again he had to flee. This time he had soon the identity of an Austrian,

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spent some time in a relationship with a widow, with whom he moved to Rualn in 1802. B.Doc

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built up a reputation as a businessman, and finally felt secure enough to let his mother come

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live with him and the widow. But finally, his past caught up with him. He was arrested and brought to

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leave. There, he learned he'd been sentenced to death in abstentia. The help of the local procurator

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Jean-Ral, Ransom, he filed an appeal and spent the following five months in prison waiting for a

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retrial. During this time, the rich Shruvalier, who you remember was his wife he'd married years ago,

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contacted him to inform him of their divorce. While Cinder had been no decision concerning his

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sentence, he decided to flee again and jumped out of a window into the adjacent river scar.

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For the next four years, he was a man on the run. He spent quite a bit of time in Paris where he

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witnessed the execution of Caesar, Urbou, the man with whom his life had started such a downward spiral.

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The event started a process of self-rear valuation. With his mother and a woman he called a net in his

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memoir, he moved several times in the following years, but again and again, people from his past

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recognised him. He tried to become once more a legitimate merchant, but his former wife found him in

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Paris and blackmailed him for money, and a couple of former fellow convicts forcing to fence

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stolen goods for them. In 1809, just before his 34th birthday, Bidock was arrested once again.

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He decided to stop living on the Finches of Society and offered his services as an informant to

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the police. This was accepted and he started his workers' spy, ending up in La Force Prison.

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He sounded out his inmates and forwarded his information about forged identities and unsolved crimes

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through a net to the police chief in Paris, Jean-Aumé. This was Bidock's turn around. After a couple

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of years of spying, he was released from jail on the recommendation of Auree, but some is not

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to raise suspicion among the other inmates. The release was arranged to look like an escape.

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Still, Bidock was not really free because he was bound to one of the

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people. Therefore, he continued to work as a secret agent for the Paris police using his contacts and

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his reputation in the criminal world to gain trust. He disguised himself as an escaped

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convict and immersed himself in the criminal scene to learn about planned and committed crimes,

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and even took part in felonies in order to suddenly turn on his partners and arrest them.

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When criminals eventually began to suspect him, he used disguises and assumed other identities

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to continue his work and avoid suspicion. In 1811, Bidock formally organised a plain-close unit

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at the Brigade de Suratis, the Security Brigade, the police department recognised the values of

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these civil agents, and in 1812, the experiment was officially converted to security police

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and unit under the prefecture of police. Bidock being appointed as its leader. In 1813,

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Emperor Napoleon signed a decree that made the Brigade a state security police force,

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and from this day on, it was called the Suratine National. The Suratine initially had eight

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employees, but ten years later, that had expanded to 28, as well as another seven or eight

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who worked secretly for the Suratine. However, instead of a salary, they received licenses

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for gambling halls. Many Bidock's abordinates were ex-criminals like himself. They even hired them,

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straight from the prison, for example, Coca-Cola Court, who would later become Bidock's successor

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at the Suratine. Bidock took responsibility for personally training his agents,

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teaching them disguises based on the sort of job that they were involved in. He himself still went

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out for two or three minutes. His later memoirs were full of stories. At one point, he claims to have

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faked his own death as part of an investigation. Turbulent times were ahead. In 1814, the

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beginning of the French restoration, after Napoleon's exile, Bidock and Suratine tried to contain

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the growing and tumultuous situation in Paris. He arrested many who tried to exploit the post-revolutionary

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situation when they claimed to be an aristocrats. In 1817, he was involved in over 800 arrests,

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including those of a satins and fences. By 1820, his activities had reduced crime in Paris

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substantially. By 1820, his annual income was 5,000 francs, a substantial amount at the time,

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but he also worked as a private investigator for fees. There were rumours circulating

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Paris that Bidock's sexual annals are organized in break-ins and robberies and then having his

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agents wait to collect and arrest the offenders. Even though some of Bidock's techniques might

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have been questionable, there doesn't seem to be any evidence to substantiate these allegations.

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In spite of Bidock's position as the chief of a police authority, he still remained

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and wanted criminal. His forgery and depiction had never been fully dismissed and he had not

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been exonerated. So alongside complaints and many denunciations, his superiors repeatedly

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received requests from the prison director, which they largely ignored. Finally, the Comte de

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Joux-Anglais, prefect of the Paris police, responded to a petition from Bidock and requested

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an official pardon which we received in 1817 from King Louis XVIII. Bidock married again in 1820,

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this time to the destitute Jean-Louis-Poyer-Girin whose origin we don't really know, but at that time it

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led to a lot of speculation. She came to live in the household as 111 rude, delirial del, where Bidock's

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mother and her mother's niece, the 27-year-old fluid Albertine Meniers, also lived. It was at this time

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that Bidock became a friend of Orrade de Belzac, a famous author who began to use him as a model for

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several other figures in his books. Bidock's wife, who was ailing throughout their marriage,

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unfortunately died in June 1824. Six weeks later, Bidock's mother also died at the age of 80 and was

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buried with honors, her recrym being performed in the famous cathedral of Notre Dame.

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It was during the 1820s that things began to slide for Bidock. After the assassination of the Duke de

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Barinian, February 1820, police-preferate Anglais had to resign and was replaced by the Jesuit,

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Guy de la Vogue. He set a high value on religiousness among his subordinates. In 1824,

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the 18th died. He was succeeded by the very ultra-reactionary Charles X, in whose oppressive

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reign police agents were regularly withdrawn from their original activities. Finally, Bidock's

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immediate superior police chief Orrade retired and was succeeded by Perissal, who assumed supercited,

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but the very ambitious, but also very formal, Mark of Duplicit. There was an antipathy between

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Bidock and Duplicit. Time and again, Duplicit complained about trivial matters, for example,

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that Bidock's agent spent time in brothels and bars of ill-wipute. Bidock always explained that

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they had to do this to establish contacts and to gather information, but he was ignored.

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When Bidock received two official warnings within a short time,

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Bidock had lost the support of his superior. He had had enough. So on 20th of June 1827,

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the de facto founder of the Suraté Jean-False-Wolff Bidock handed in his resignation.

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"Depuis 18 ans, je ser la police avec distinction. Je n'ai jamais reçu un seul reproche de vos

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prédécesseurs. Je dois donc penser non à voir pas mériter. Depuis votre nomination à la deuxième

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division, voilà la deuxième fois que vous me faites l'honneur de mon adressé en vous plénieant

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des agents. Suis-je le maître de les contenir hors du bureau? Non. Pour vous éviter, monsieur,

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la peine de mon adressé de sang blabla l'avenir, et à moi le désagrément de les recevoir,

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j'ai l'honneur de vous prier de vouloir bien recevoir ma démission."

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"For 18 years, I served the police with distinction, and I have never received any criticism

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from your predecessors. I must think therefore that I never owned any.

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Central appointment to the second division. This is the second time you did me the honour to

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address me by complaining about my agents. Am I then master in the timely spender out of office?"

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No. To save you, sir, the trouble of sending me further similar complaints in the future,

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and me the inconvenience of receiving them, I have the honour to solicit you for accepting my resignation."

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In part two of the story of Jean François B. doc, the father of all private detectives,

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and the effective founder of the French assurity, you will hear what happened to him after his

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resignation from that bureau. How he founded the world's first private investigation agency,

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and how he rose to fame both in his own life and as the inspiration for fictional characters

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from the pens of authors such as Bowsac and Victor Hugo.

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surveillance, you can hear more on our podcast, France Private Investigation, found on Detective Diaries.

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A link to Detective Diaries is in the show notes or search on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

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History remembers him in the shadows of Whitechapel, but the real Frederick Abelheim was more

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than a Ripper Hunter. He was a man of 84 commendations, a meticulous detective who

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colleagues said look more like a bank manager than a street hardened copper.

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In part two of our podcast on the life of Abelheim, we follow him through the scandals that broke his

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faith in the system, from the Cleveland Street Mail brothel inquiry to the High Stakes Turkish Bond

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robbery. Disillusioned by cover-ups involving the British aristocracy, Abelheim walked away from Scotland

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Yard, only to become the European agent for the legendary Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

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From hunting gambling, cheats and Monte Carlo to his eventual retreat to the seaside

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of Bournemouth, we explore his later years at Escort and Holdenhurst Road,

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but even in retirement the ghosts of 1888 remained. Join us as we close the case book on a Victorian

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legend, Detective Diaries, Frederick Abelheim part two. Listen now on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

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Eugène-François VidocqPart 1

"searching the world for answers"

Eugène-François Vidocq
Part 1

Eugène-François Vidocq
Part 1