City Crime Flashcards
Arrested by Vidocq’s team 1815
Self-styled marquis de Chambreuil, Director General of the Royal Stud
Comédie Humaine
Balzac, 1829-47
Paris must change. Its constitution is diseased
Doin and Charton, Lettres sur Paris, 1830
arrested age 16 for the crime of sleeping under a tree
Hippolyte Raynal
Crime stats = crucial measure for the condition of urban life.
Quetelet, Recherches sur le penchant au crime aux différents âges, 1830
Phrase ‘dangerous classes’ into popular use
1840s, for gypsies, vagrants, mems of inferior class, mould or stock
Vidocq’s memoirs
Early October 1828
V on Criminal argot
Vidocq, Les Voleurs, 1836
50 pages on criminal argot for Lacassagne
Nougier, end of 19th C
Poetry, including to Louis-Philippe - ‘men of property give me the horrors/ I have a hard heart and an evil mind’
Lacenaire
Malheur et poésie
Raynal, 1834
Sous les Verroux
Raynal, 1836
Père Goriot
Balzac, 1834-5 ft Vautrin
‘All you have done is to unearth the Gazette des Tribunaux - which had 12 000 subscribers these 20 years past’
Feb 1843 review of Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris
1st Issue of Gazette des Tribunaux
1 Nov 1825