Word: flic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches of ten. Sharp-eyed French cashiers first spotted the forgeries when banknotes began coming in with no pin holes. Flic Chiappe did better. One of his agents had gone with three of the forgers and a trunkful of notes to Holland. He produced the evidence that led to a major political crisis in Hungary and jailed more than a dozen of the most important men in Budapest...
...rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...