Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq
Season 1
19716 episodes
Appointed head of the new Paris police force, Vidocq has to deal with the “chauffeurs du Nord”, a gang of farm robbers, royalist murders and riots in Toulon. But his main threat is the Baroness, who heads up the “Knights of the Night” organization, which is multiplying its plots against him.
Episodes
E1The Iron Crate
8.01971-01-05 · 55m
Vidocq, to everyone's surprise, has become head of the Sûreté Nationale. One of his former chain-mates, Desfossé, is compromised in a murder case.
E2The Three Vidocq Crimes
8.01971-01-12 · 55m
Vidocq is accused of murdering two men who had denounced him to the police for blackmailing them. Arrested and imprisoned, he manages to escape and discovers a plot hatched by the Baroness de Saint-Gély: the criminal has hired a fake Vidocq to arrest some very wealthy thugs.
E3The Knights of the Night
8.01971-01-19 · 55m
Vidocq is tasked with finding the Empress's pink necklace (inherited from François I) before the reception at which the Empress is to wear it.
E4The Chauffeurs du Nord
8.01971-02-16 · 55m
Vidocq is tasked with arresting a gang of looters operating in northern France. These criminals attack isolated farms, forcing peasants to confess where their savings are hidden by burning their feet.
E5Failure for Vidocq
8.01971-02-23 · 55m
At the dawn of the Restoration, Mr. Henry, eager to protect Vidocq, sends him to Brittany to investigate the mysterious disappearance of emigrants who have returned to France clandestinely.
E6Bankers of crime
8.01971-03-02 · 55m
In the run-up to the Hundred Days, Vidocq investigates strange events at the Toulon penal colony.