# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:08:33.048Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 24 July 1775, Eugène-François Vidocq spent his early years on the wrong side of French law before an improbable reversal made him its architect. He founded and directed the Sûreté Nationale, France's first criminal investigative agency, applying a convict's fluency in the underworld to the work of catching it. After that he opened the first known private detective agency. The pivot from outlaw to investigator gave Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac raw material for fiction, and gave France the template for its national police force. He died 11 May 1857; his birthday is now observed as National-International Private Investigators Day.