The Writers’ Police

5th October 2006 with 3 Comments

The Writers’ Police, a collection of extracts from Parisian police files from 1879 through 1891, have been published by Bruno Fuligni. Fuligni, an employee at the French parliament who discovered and compiled the files, remarks on the vigour and thoroughness with which the writers of that era were spied upon by snitches and secret [...]

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