CHAPTER VIII.

MODERN POLICE (_continued_): PARIS.

The Spy System under the Second Empire--The Manufacture of _Dossiers_--M. Andrieux receives his own on being appointed Prefect--The Clerical Police of Paris--The _Sergents de Ville_--The Six Central Brigades--The Cabmen of Paris, and how they are kept in Order--Stories of Honest and of Dishonest Cabmen--Detectives and Spies--Newspaper Attacks upon the Police--Their General Character.....258