CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[Introduction]5
I.[After the Revolution]11
II.[The Great Seaport Prisons]46
III.[Celebrated French Convicts]69
IV.[The First Great Detective]92
V.[The Combat with Crime]112
VI.[Celebrated Cases]131
VII.[The Course of the Law]154
VIII.[Mazas and La Santé]171
IX.[Two Model Reformatories]197
X.[A Model Penitentiary]222