Season 1 Episode 5: Vidocq puts his education, as it were, and his reputation to good use. 

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Music:

Divertissement - Pizzicato (from the ballet Sylvia) by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3664-divertissement---pizzicato-from-the-ballet-sylvia-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Music: Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-rouletteLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parisian by Kevin MacLeod

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4194-parisian

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Ashley, Mike. “The Great Detectives: Vidoqc.” The Strand Magazine. Issue 4. https://strandmag.com/the-magazine/articles/the-great-detectives-vidocq/

Blazeski, Goran “Eugene Vidocq: The ex-convict who became the world’s first private investigator.” The Vintage News. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/03/eugene-vidocq-the-ex-convict-who-became-the-worlds-first-private-investigator/

“Eugene Francois Vidocq.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq

FlourishingAnyway. “Eugène Vidocq: The Convict Who Became the Father of Modern Criminal Investigation.” Owlcation. https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Eugne-Franois-Vidocq-The-Convict-Who-Became-the-Father-of-Modern-Criminal-Investigation

Friendly, Michael “A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis” by https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.4263.pdf#page=31&zoom=100,0,657

“Galley Slave.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_slave

Memoirs of Vidocq by Eugene Francois Vidocq. 5v