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Lot 81 - Photographic service directed by Alphonse Bertillon Adolphe Berland, 19-year-old murderer, guillotined July 27, 1891 Albumin print, 10.5x6 cm, on carte de viste-sized card Adolphe is the son of the Berland mother. At 55, she continues to prostitute herself to supplement her meager salary as a newsagent. She doesn't hesitate to receive her clients in the bed she shares with her son. He continues to sleep while his mother earns her living. One day, a customer has the bad idea of dying in the middle of the action, and the mother simply pushes him into a corner. After two days, the smell of the corpse alerts the neighbors, who the police. The body was taken away in an old potato sack, as there were no sheets in the apartment. When Mother Berland's business began to falter, she encouraged her son and his friends to take up shoplifting. In a way, she founded a school for crime, but once again, business was not going well. So, one evening in December 1890, she gathered the gang at her home to choose their first victim. Gustave suggested the name of the widow Menier-Dessaigne, to whom he had delivered meat when he was an apprentice butcher. The widow was in her eighties and lived in a small house in Courbevoie. A macabre detail: her mother and sister had already been murdered... The trial at the Assize Court was rushed. Adolphe, his mother and her accomplice Gustave were sent to the guillotine, while two other accomplices were condemned to the penal colony. The execution date was set for July 27, 1891. All the hoodlums of Paris gather at Place de la Roquette for the spectacle. Mother Berland is pardoned at the foot of the scaffold. But her sons Adolphe and Gustave were not so lucky. Both bodies and both heads are taken to the cemetery in the same basket to the cemetery. (from a podcast by Le Point newspaper)This lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

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Lot 82 - Photographic service run by Alphonse Bertillon Ravachol, anarchist, guillotined July 11, 1892 (1920 print) 1920s silver print, 10.5x6 cm, on carte de viste card, red fillet framing the print Alphonse Bertillon's photographic masterpiece. Born into a family of scientists and statisticians, Bertillon began his career as a clerk in the identification office of the Paris police headquarters in 1879. Tasked with keeping reliable police records of offenders, he developed the first modern system for identifying criminals. This system, known as "bertillonnage", comprised three elements: anthropometric measurements, a precise verbal description of the prisoner's physical characteristics and standardized facial photographs. In the early 1890s, Paris experienced a wave of bombings and assassination attempts perpetrated by anarchists advocating "propaganda by action". One of Bertillon's greatest successes came in March 1892, when his system for identifying criminals led to the arrest of an anarchist bomber and career criminal by the name of Ravachol. The publicity surrounding this case earned Bertillon the Légion d'Honneur, and encouraged police forces around the world to adopt his anthropometric* system... Ravachol was executed on July 11, 1892 in Montbrison. Ravachol sings Le Père Duchesne on his way to the guillotine. His last words, as the cleaver fell, were "Vive la ré...". The partially encrypted telegram announcing the execution translates it as "Vive la république! But according to Jean Maitron, he could have meant "Vive la révolution!" or "Vive la révolution sociale!", like many of the anarchists executed. * notice from the Metropoliton Museum of ArtThis lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

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Lot 87 - Service photographique de la Police Judiciaire Fernand Gast, 23-year-old murderer, Champigny-sur-Marne crime, sentenced to death Charleville, July 3, 1914 Vintage silver print, 9x13 cm, annotations in pencil on verso "The murderers of Jérôme-Auguste Croulard, the unfortunate painter of buildings murdered on June 27, have just been arrested... Sub-brigadier Walter had been sent to Charleville to question a soldier of the 40th artillery named Fernand Gast, who had been seen leaving a Champigny wine shop on the evening of the tragedy, in the company of the victim and Henri Lamy, who occupied a room in the building where the Croulard family lived. Witnesses had even spotted Gast, Henri Lamy and Croulard heading towards Villiers on June 27... Cleverly coaxed, Gast confessed to the crime, which had been committed in concert with Lamy and at the instigation of the Croulard woman herself: fed up with seeing her husband come home drunk every night and being the butt of his blows, she had asked her knight in shining armor to rid her of her irascible husband... On the evening of June 27, around six o'clock, the crime was prepared... In the most deserted spot on the Champigny plateau, Gast shot Croulard five times with a revolver at point-blank range, and Lamy stabbed the unfortunate victim with a knife. The two murderers then robbed the corpse to give the impression of a robbery motive. They then carried the body to the dunghill, where it was found five days later... (from an article in Le Petit Havre, Sunday July 5, 1914, reproduction attached)This lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

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