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Eugène François Vidocq

1775 - 1857

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Eugène-François Vidocq (French: [øʒɛn fʁɑ̃swa vidɔk]; 24 July 1775 – 11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. He was the founder and first director of France's first criminal investigative agency, the Sûreté Nationale, as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French national police force. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène François Vidocq has received more than 832,432 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Eugène François Vidocq is the 2nd most popular inspiration, the 427th most popular biography from France (down from 396th in 2019) and the most popular French Inspiration.

Eugène François Vidocq is most famous for founding the first detective agency in France.

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Among INSPIRATIONS

Among inspirations, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 2 out of 10. Before him are Vlad the Impaler. After him are Johann Georg Faust, Alice Liddell, Joseph Bell, George Floyd, Jack LaLanne, Andrew Wakefield, and Mahsa Amini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 7. Before him are Jane Austen, André-Marie Ampère, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, J. M. W. Turner, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, and Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Bahadur Shah Zafar, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Adam Albert von Neipperg, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, and Ching Shih. Among people deceased in 1857, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 5. Before him are Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Czerny, and Archduchess Sophie of Austria. After him are Alfred de Musset, Dominic Savio, Mikhail Glinka, Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Francis Beaufort.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 427 out of 6,770. Before him are Fernand Léger (1881), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Marc Bloch (1886), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Pierre Gassendi (1592), and Giambologna (1529). After him are Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Alfred Binet (1857), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Odilon Redon (1840), André Le Nôtre (1613), and Alphonse de Lamartine (1790).

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Among INSPIRATIONS In France

Among inspirations born in France, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 1. 

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