L’évasion de Vidocq en 1805, on démêle le vrai du faux L’Arrageois Eugène-François Vidocq a une histoire avec Douai. D’abord judiciaire. Le 27 décembre 1796, il est jugé et condamné pour faux en ...

En juin 1845, la foule se pressait à Londres pour découvrir une étrange collection et espérer apercevoir son propriétaire. «Vidocq, chef de la police de sûreté de Paris, qu'il a créée et dirigée ...

Passionnée par le cinéma français, adorant arpenter les festivals, elle est journaliste pour AlloCiné depuis 13 ans. Elle anime le podcast Spotlight. Après "Mesrine" et "Un moment d'égarement", ...

The road of history is cobbled with names, of people and events and ideas, that are largely forgotten, but without whom our modern world would look very different. You’ll surely have heard of Cyrillic ...

Publié: 9 Janvier 2013 à 09h28 Temps de lecture: 3 min Partage : « Il avait les épaules larges, le buste bien développé, les muscles apparents, des mains épaisses, carrées et fortement marquées aux ...

Eugene-Francois Vidocq was a common criminal who became the world's first detective. Robert Siegel talks with author James Morton about this 19th century Frenchman. Morton's book, The First Detective: ...

Based on the memoirs of Eugène-François Vidocq, this series follows the adventures of this former convict turned policeman in the early 19th century. In these new adventures, Vidocq comes up against a ...

The Vidocq Society sounds like something straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel. Once a month, the members of the 20-year-old club -- mostly detectives and forensic experts -- meet at an old ...

Gaumont has come on board “The Emperor of Paris,” a crime thriller about Francois Vidocq, a real-life ex-convict who became a police detective during Napoleon’s reign. The project – which started ...

In June 1845, an odd assortment of faintly disconcerting objects was drawing large crowds to the Cosmorama in Regent Street. The exhibition catalogue was headed: ‘Vidocq, chef de la police de sûreté ...

Founded in 1990, the Vidocq Society met monthly in Philadelphia for lunch and to solve some of the nation's most vexing cold cases. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Michael Capuzzo, author of The Murder ...