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...want her to be respected. ... In the old days no smoking was allowed in postoffices, and cigars had to be left in the entrance hall, but today you can go to the postoffice with your pipe in your mouth. ... In those days a deputy would call on the prefect of police with his hat in his hand, while today the subprefect meets the deputy at the railroad station and carries his bag. We Alsatians don't like that. It puts politics above the machinery of the state...
Where these swift developments left Jean Chiappe no one pretended to know. Under great pressure, the dapper prefect of Paris police had been dismissed by Premier Daladier because one section of the public believed that he had wilfully failed to prosecute Swindler Stavisky, because another section believed that he collected a fat fortune in office by subtly blackmailing crooked politicians. But even without these groups smiling Prefect Chiappe still had enormous personal popularity throughout Paris. No sooner was his removal announced than roars for his restoration were heard. Rioting crowds interlarded "Vive Chiappe!" with cries of "Voleurs!" "Assassins!", saved their...
...Prefect of Police he became the complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...
...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...
...Adrien Bonnefoy-Sibour, former Prefect of the suburban Department of Seine et Oise became the new prefect of police, popped quickly into the blue-papered office...