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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Take this fellow away," said Vidocq, "he is to go with the other prisoners to Toulon in the morning." Robeccal began to curse and swear. "You will gag him," added Vidocq, "it is better. Good-bye, Monsieur Robeccal, I don't think we are likely to meet again!" Vidocq looked on with a satirical smile while Robeccal was carried off.
"To the south of France," repeated Robeckal. "To Toulon." "To Toulon?" cried the wretch, in terror. "That is impossible!" "And why should it be impossible?" asked Vidocq, smiling maliciously. "Because because," stammered Robeckal, faintly, "the sentence " "Was death by strangulation.
The French people did something of the same kind for Vidocq and Lecocq; but, as in most everything else, there is a pervading breeziness and expansiveness of horizon about the American product that is totally lacking in the blazé, frouzy, over-geometrical, Gallic detective romance.
His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils.
The members of the secret police appearing in these stories have all a vague likeness to Vidocq, whose alleged memoirs were published in 1828, a few years before the author of the 'Human Comedy' began to deal with the scheming of the underworld. Balzac's spies and his detectives are not convincing, despite his utmost effort; and we do not believe in their preternatural acuteness.
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