Show PARIS AGENTS sad spies of the french thit chr acter methods philadelphia times the secret agents of police in paris are provided with cards which in cases of danger will injure them the protection of the regular police they clubs and other meetings the wine chopi of the exterior boulevards and also attend at the senate anil chamber of deputies during the session in the morning they prepare their re porta generally speaking at the prefect ure in the archives of which are to be found detailed accounts of the career and character of hundreds of thousands of individuals in france these records form colossal pyramids in the and are alphabetically arranged according to the names of the persons whose histories they chronicle BO that when the front or is compromised in any criminal affair the librarians can have no difficulty in laying their un the official summary of bis or her antecedents so complete is the collection that the name of the mot rag picker of opria has its chronicle as well as that of the presided of the republic paris detectives are divided into to claws the agents de la kurete who are the deceives dec tives aa we know them in england very plucky respectable aud self sacrificing body of chosen policemen ill plain clothing aud the agent de la police secrete a mean and contemptible but fearfully clever lot ane parisian nickname for the second clas is mouchard than which there ia no more bodiou epithet in the french language the ro may be a poor beggar with not more than 60 a year or be a man or woman of high rank and receiving the best society fardous Sar dous dora was a female mouchard the baines bu ines ot the mouchard high or low is to listen to conversations on the governments ern ments doings and sayings and report them to the perfect of police who communicates them to the ministers of the interior they are in fact political spies and frequently impostors and liars |