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Mémoires Of Mr Claude – Chef de La Police/Safety Pins On The Second Empire

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Memoirs of Monsieur Claude – head of the security police under the Second Empire

Jules Rouff et Cie Editeurs, Paris, nd, fort in 4°, 2 volumes, half-leather binding, wear on the corners, on the caps & on the covers, 2020 pages, illustrations in black. 521 cases told in the first person, both on historical matters (Bonapartist plots, the death of Mr. Thiers…) as well as those of morals or common law (the maid killer, the insolvent tenant sent away from his establishment by a spiteful owner…), even supernatural! (ghosts, the evil eye…)

Antoine François Claude known as Monsieur Claude (1807-1880), head of the security police in France from 1859 to 1875; he recorded here his memories of France’s first police officer, making his Memoirs an incredible work, halfway between an adventure novel and a history book. Claude is a visionary who focuses on psychology, manipulation and approaches his investigations methodically: careful examination of traces, prints; confrontation of the criminal and the victim; careful observation of individuals, application of « psychomorphology » and judicial anthropometry or judicial identity that Alphonse Bertillon…

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Jules Rouff et Cie Editeurs, Paris, nd, fort in 4°, 2 volumes, half-leather binding, wear on the corners, on the caps & on the covers, 2020 pages, illustrations in black. 521 cases told in the first person, both on historical matters (Bonapartist plots, the death of Mr. Thiers…) as well as those of morals or common law (the maid killer, the insolvent tenant sent away from his establishment by a spiteful owner…), even supernatural! (ghosts, the evil eye…) Antoine François Claude known as Monsieur Claude (1807-1880), head of the security police in France from 1859 to 1875; he recorded here his memories of France’s first police officer, making his Memoirs an incredible work, halfway between an adventure novel and a history book. Claude is a visionary who focuses on psychology, manipulat