Police Stories

Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France

“…72 Napoleon and Fouché, his most prominent spymaster, established the administrative structure of the modern police state, one inherited by the Restoration and July Monarchy. 73 Under Napoleon, spies went to theaters, cafés, secret societies, salons, and events such as balls and the races at Longchamps. He also had informers who circulated in high society, including Madame de Genlis and Joseph Fiévée.…”

“…One friend tells him that if he starts professing ultra views in his writings, liberals will destroy him, and that he "will be carried away by the rages of factionalism which is still at a fevered pitch; only the fever has passed from the brutal actions of 1815 and 1816 to the realm of ideas and verbal struggles in the Chambers and debates in the press." 73 Politics, then, leads individuals to seek one another's destruction.…”

“…He told her that he loved her more than he loved anyone else and she was constantly jealous of his ties to other women. 73 When he and Récamier began their affair, he hid the relationship to assuage Duras's suspicions. 74 Such an insistence on the monopoly of his affections seems outside the rules of friendship, a bond that is generally not so exclusive.…”

La professionnalisation policière en situation coloniale : détour conceptuel et explorations historiographiques

“…Un même dispositif peut ainsi être perçu de manière différente en métropole ou aux colonies: alors qu'en France métropolitaine la pratique consistant à éloigner les commissaires de police de leur communauté locale a été analysée comme un signe de la professionnalisation policière (toujours comprise comme souhaitable et positive) au cours de la première moitié du XIX e siècle 90 , le fait qu'aux colonies les recrutements se soient souvent faits sur une base ethnique et géographique, visant à la distance avec les populations locales, a été un des facteurs des relations tendues avec les populations. Il s'agissait cependant là aussi d'une caractéristique d'une professionnalisation policière en rupture avec les formes de maintien de l'ordre communautaires vernaculaires.…”

Access to Pain Relief: An Essential Human Right A Report for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2007

“…A South African study of AIDS patients found a pain incidence of 98% 5 ; 60% of patients present to Hospice Uganda (HIV/AIDS and cancer patients) with severe pain. 6 More than 50% of patients with advanced AIDS, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and renal disease experience pain. 7 The incidence of cancer was highest in North America for men and women, while the risk of dying from cancer was highest in Eastern Europe for men and highest in Eastern Africa for women.…”