* May 11 – Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and private detective ( b. 1775 )

* July 23 – Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and private detective agent ( d. 1857 )

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

Popular anger at shortages in Conakry was entwined with anti-government protests, strikes, and violence over the rule of President Lansana Conté and the successive prime ministers, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Eugène Camara, appointed to fill the post after the resignation of Prime Minister François Lonseny Fall in April 2004.

Valjean's character is loosely based on the life of Eugène François Vidocq, an ex-convict who became a successful businessman widely noted for his social engagement and philanthropy.

In 1833 Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, " Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l ' Industrie " (" The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry ") and hired ex-convicts.

In 1859, in association with Étienne Eugène Azam, Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers, François Anthime Eugène Follin, and Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau, Broca performed the first experiments in Europe using hypnotism as surgical anesthesia.

Watercolor was less popular on the Continent, though many fine examples were produced by French painters, including Eugène Delacroix, François Marius Granet, Henri-Joseph Harpignies and the satirist Honoré Daumier.

Vollmer had discovered that very little literature existed in the United States on the subject of police work, so he located and read a number of European works on the subject, in particular, Criminal Psychology, by Hans Gross, an Austrian criminologist, and Memoirs of Vidocq, by Eugène François Vidocq, head of the detective division of the French police in Paris.

Eugène François Vidocq – portrait by Achille Devéria

Eugène François Vidocq (; July, 24 1775 – May 11, 1857 ) was a French criminal and criminalist whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac.

Eugène François Vidocq was born during the night of 23 to 24 July 1775 as the third child of the baker Nicolas Joseph François Vidocq ( 1744 – 1799 ) and his wife Henriette Françoise Vidocq ( 1744 – 1824, née Dion ) in Arras in the Rue du Mirroir-de-Venise.

Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois ( 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940 ) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist.

French criminal Eugène François Vidocq was the basis for the character Vautrin in Le Père Goriot.

In the winter of 1828 – 29, a French grifter-turned-policeman named Eugène François Vidocq published a pair of sensationalized memoirs recounting his criminal exploits.

Lustiger received episcopal consecration on the 8 December 1979 from Cardinal François Marty, with Archbishop Eugène Ernoult of Sens and Bishop Daniel Pézeril serving as co-consecrators.

Merlin de Douai's son, Antoine François Eugène Merlin ( 1778 – 1854 ), was a well-known general in the French army, and served through most of the Napoleonic Wars.

Undercover work has been used in a variety of ways throughout the course of history, but the first organized undercover program was first employed in France by Eugène François Vidocq in the early 19th century.

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After a brief romance with the artist Jean Cocteau, Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim married, in 1923, Charles, Vicomte de Noailles ( 26 September 1891-28 April 1981 ), a son of François Joseph Eugène Napoléon de Noailles, grandson of Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles and younger brother of the 6th Duc de Mouchy ( father of Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles ), himself a cadet of the French ducal house of Noailles.

The Sûreté was founded in 1812 by Eugène François Vidocq, who headed it until 1827.

* Eugène François Vidocq – founder and first chief

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Vidocq ( North American DVD title: Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq ) is a 2001 mystery film, directed by Pitof, starring Gérard Depardieu as historical figure Eugène François Vidocq pursuing a supernatural serial killer.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist ( b. 1804 )

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

* 1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician ( d. 1861 )

File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Portrait of Madame de Verninac, ( 1798 – 1799 ), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc () ( 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879 )

* 1913 – Eugène Brands, Dutch painter ( d. 2002 )

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician ( b. 1874 )

* 1814 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect ( d. 1879 )

* 1858 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor ( d. 1931 )

* 1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1931 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor ( b. 1858 )

* 1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1894 )

* 1856 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France ( d. 1879 )

* 1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals ( d. 1972 )

* 1823 – Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general ( d. 1883 )

* 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.

* Eugène Ysaÿe – Paganini variations for violin and piano

* 1874 – Eugène Balme, French shooter ( d. 1914 )

* 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general ( d. 1936 )

* 1781 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French son of Alexandre de Beauharnais ( d. 1824 )