True Crime and Crime Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France

3 credits · Undergraduate

Representation of crime and criminality in fiction, newspaper reporting, and criminological texts in nineteenth-century France. Memoirs of Vidocq, a notorious criminal-turned-policeman who inspired some of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth-century. Complicated interplay of fact and fiction in crime. Serves as repeat credit for FREN 3891-01 offered Fall 2022 and Spring 2020. Prerequisite: FREN 2202, or FREN 2501W prior to Spring 2026. [3] (HCA) (CORE LA)