Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter over to an investigating committee. But the scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet wide open, it seemed almost certain to fall on its first appearance before the Chamber...
...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...
...taking the evidence of corruption revealed in the Stavisky scandal much too seriously for the comfort of the Daladier government, which has been trying without much success to placate the aroused Paris citizenry--or mob, depending on one's point of view. Even the sacrifice of M. Chiappe, the Prefect of Police, has had little soothing effect; and sacrificing M. Chiappe demanded a good deal of courage, for the man possessed power out of all proportion to his official position. So the battle in the streets of Paris rages on but not so merrily as before; the former magnesium-throwing...
...police reserves. Meanwhile the first duel resulting from Stavisky revelations was fought by Deputy André Hesse and Lawyer Joseph Beneix in the empty stadium of the Parc des Princes which can seat 20,000. The duelists missed each other twice and stalked furiously from the field. When dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe privately warned Premier Chautemps that he could no longer guarantee the safety of Cabinet members, the Chautemps Cabinet resigned, rioting stopped...
Died. Louis Jean Baptiste Lépine, 87, "The Little Man with the Big Stick," longtime (1893-1913) Prefect of the Paris Police; in Paris. He introduced bulletproof vests and sulphuric acid capsules (forerunner of tear gas): the Bertillon identification system: the "Mouqin merry-go-round," "sedative marches" and the "ambulance dodge"-ruses to keep ugly-tempered crowds from forming...