"The Paperholder", A Drawing by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1749), in: Mémoire sur la Réformation de la Police, soumis au roi en 1749 par M. Guillauté, Éditions Hermann 1974, p. 65

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"Every move will be recorded"

In 1749, in the middle of the eighteenth century, Jacques François Guillauté, a French police officer and a mechanical engineer, who would later become an "Encyclopediste", dedicated a richly illustrated manuscript to King Louis the 15th. The title of his manuscript was "Mémoire sur la Réformation de la Police de France". With this token, he sought to convince the king to adopt a radical plan to reform the old French police system. By Grégoire Chamayou. more