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By Morgan Dunn
May 29, 2021
After escaping from prison several times in the early 19th century, Eugène-François Vidocq turned himself in â and went on to revolutionize policing.
Wikimedia CommonsAn ex-convict who lived through the French Revolution, Eugène-François Vidocq became the world’s first modern detective.
Born into a peasant family in France in the late 18th century, Eugène-François Vidocq was present at some of the most turbulent and storied moments in French history, and his criminal career during that time would have made for a taut thriller on its own.
But Vidocq was no ordinary thief. After a life of crime, he achieved the extraordinary twice over; first by founding the French national police, and then by serving as the inspiration for two of the main characters in Victor Hugo’s classic novel