This will probably amuse all of two people on my friends list.

[tenlittlebullets]

I went to the museum that has the historic collections of the prefecture of police! It's a little hard to find (it's on the third floor of a police station in the 5th arrondissement, and the station isn't marked as having a museum in it), but the collection is well worth it. There are a lot of geeky things in there--a replica of Fieschi's infernal machine, repro gendarme uniforms from various points in the 19th century (the ones in Les Mis are actually quite accurate to the 1829 ones), and lots of prison registers. They have the register entry from when Saint-Just's mother had him locked away. They have the Conciergerie registers with entries for Danton, Desmoulins, Charlotte Corday, and the Girondins. They have a bunch of stuff signed "Marat, l'ami du peuple," a lot of stuff signed by the Committee of General Security, and I think a few things signed by the Committee of Public Safety. They have a guillotine blade that was in use on the Place de Grève in 1792.

But this entry is not really about the shiny, which is a matter of public record. This entry is about their one lone placard about Lacenaire. Because Lacenaire's first victim? Was a young man on the wrong side of the law, named Chardon, alias "Madeleine," nicknamed "la tante."

LOLWUT, LUCIEN AND THEODORE ARE BASED ON THE SAME GUY? I MISSED THIS MEMO

(Also, right after the part of his trial where Lacenaire recounts the murder of Chardon, he says he tried and failed to rob a collecting clerk by renting an apartment near his... in the rue de la Chanverrerie. Heeeeee.)