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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 the French national police force. He is also regarded as the first private detective. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène François Vidocq is the 3rd most popular inspiration (down from 2nd in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from France (down from 427th 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, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 3 out of 10. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, and Mahsa Amini. After him are Jack LaLanne, Johann Georg Faust, Alice Liddell, Joseph Bell, George Floyd, and Andrew Wakefield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Bahadur Shah Zafar, J. M. W. Turner, Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, and Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Matthew Lewis, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Étienne-Louis Malus, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, and Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger. Among people deceased in 1857, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 7. Before him are Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Carl Czerny, Mikhail Glinka, and Dominic Savio. After him are Alfred de Musset, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Francis Beaufort.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène François Vidocq ranks 553 out of 6,770. Before him are Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768), Léon Blum (1872), and Isabelle Huppert (1953). After him are Maurice Béjart (1927), Françoise Sagan (1935), Paul Delaroche (1797), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), André Maurois (1885), and Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943).

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

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