Author

Eugène François Vidocq(1775–1857)

Eugène François Vidocq is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Some Items of Foreign Gossip., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1845
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In Fuller’s words

“Vidocq is in London exhibiting a singular cabinet of curiosities. This consists of the various implements of his first trade as a thief and pickpocket”
Some Items of Foreign Gossip. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Eugène François Vidocq

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1845—

Some Items of Foreign Gossip.

“Some Items of Foreign Gossip.”
mentioned
“Vidocq is in London exhibiting a singular cabinet of curiosities. This consists of the various implements of his first trade as a thief and pickpocket”

Fuller, Margaret. "Some Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 August 1845. · 2 August 1845