See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• EUGENE

EUGENE See also:

• FRANCOIS EUGENE VIDOCQ (1775–1857)

VIDOCQ (1775–1857)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French detective, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ARRAS

Arras in 1775 (or possibly 1773) . After an adventurous youth he joined the French See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, where he See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose to be See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant . At See also:

• LILLE

Lille he was imprisoned as the result of a See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with a See also:

• BROTHER

brother officer, and while in See also:

• GAOL, or JAIL

gaol became involved, possibly innocently, in the See also:

• FORGERY (derived through the French from Latin fabricare, to construct)

forgery of an See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order for the See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release of another prisoner . He was sentenced to eight years' hard labour, and sent to the galleys at See also:

• BREST

Brest, whence he escaped twice but was recaptured . For the third See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he succeeded in getting See also:

• FREE

free, and lived for some time in the See also:

• COMPANY

company of thieves and other criminals in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris and elsewhere, making a careful study of their methods . He then offered his services as a See also:

• SPY
• SPY (from " to spy " or " espy"; 0. Fr. espie, espier, to spy, watch; cf. Ger. spdhen, Lat. specere, to look; the Fr. term " espionage "is of course from the same source)

spy to the Paris See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police (1809) . The offer was accepted, on See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that he should extend his knowledge of the criminal classes by himself serving a further See also:

• TERM

term in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison in Paris, and subsequently See also:

• VIDOCQ, FRANCOIS EUGENE (1775–1857)

Vidocq was made See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of the reorganized detective See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the Paris police, with a See also:

• BODY

body of ex-convicts under his immediate command . In this capacity Vidocq was extremely successful, for he possessed unbounded See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy and a real See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius for See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting down criminals . In 1827, having saved a considerable sum of See also:

• MONEY

money, he retired from his See also:

• POST

post and started a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper-See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill, the See also:

• WORK

work-See also:

• PEOPLE

people in which were See also:

• DRAWN

drawn entirely from ex-convicts . The venture, however, was a failure, and in 1832 Vidocq re-entered the police service and was employed mainly in See also:

• POLITICAL

political work, though given no See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office . Anxious to get back to his old detective post he himself foolishly organized a daring See also:

• THEFT

theft . The authorities were unable to trace the thieves, who at the proper moment were discovered " by Vidocq .

His real See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• MATTER

matter became known, however, and he was dismissed from service . He subsequently started a private inquiry agency, which was indifferently successful, and was finally suppressed . Vidocq died in See also:

• GREAT

great poverty in 1857 . Several volumes have been published under his name, the best known of which is Memoires de Vidocq (1828) . It is, however, extremely doubtful whether he wrote any of them . See See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Ledru, La See also:

• VIE

Vie, la mort et See also:

• LES

les derniers moments de Vidocq (Paris, 1857) .