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...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...
...bore him a son while he was serving 18 months in jail and we were married afterward. Of course there were other women in his life, mostly spies!" Mlle Lucette Lameras, 27, who was in Stavisky's room when the shot was fired, so the Sûreté Générale said, made no disclosures, quaffed champagne at the Chamonix police station while being questioned. Sought out in Paris by United Presswoman Mary Knight she extended a heavily bejeweled hand, drawled, "Give me your card. I don't say a word for less than...
...many aliases and escapes, French police think he is the Chevalier d'Industrie (confidence man) who so recently as 1926 cashed a forged check for more than a million francs. They think he is the "Handsome Alexandre" who twice escaped from agents of the Sûreté Générale who were taking him by train to Paris. In the first instance the agents went to sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky...
Among U. S. tourists massed eagerly outside the Palace of the President of France one day last week was a little woman in a simple summer frock. Severely a Paris gendarme told her to move on. Obediently she moved. "Imbecile!" hissed a plain clothes agent of the Sûreté Generale at the startled gendarme. "C'est Madame Straus...
...capacity as Minister of War, Premier Daladier lately discovered that not only is there a scarcity of young conscripts to fill the ranks, but that the young men available are showing an alarming tendency to refuse service, as conscientious objectors. From the headquarters of the Sûreté Générale (secret police) came a circular letter last week. Signed by Minister of the Interior Camille Chautemps, it was addressed to the Prefects of all 90 Departments of France. Excerpts...