Paris Police 1900 is a French crime drama television series created by Fabien Nury that was first broadcast on 8 February 2021 on Canal+ in France and was shown on BBC Four in October 2021. A follow-up series of six episodes, featuring the same characters and called Paris Police 1905, was released in 2022, and a third series, Paris Police 1910, in 2026.
Synopsis In 1899 in Paris, the Third Republic is in crisis again. Amid civic unrest fuelled by rumours of the impending release of Alfred Dreyfus, the government is under threat from nationalists, royalists and anti-Semites on one hand and from anarchists on the other. The situation is made worse by the sudden death of the President, Félix Faure.
It is against this background that Antoine Jouin, an ambitious young detective of the Police Prefecture, is assigned to investigate the dismembered torso of a young woman found in a suitcase floating down the Seine. In the course of the investigation, Jouin encounters Louis Lépine (retired Prefect of Police, recalled to restore order in Paris), Jeanne Chauvin (the second woman in France to obtain a law degree and to be licensed to plead at the bar) and Meg Steinheil (a notorious demimondaine turned police informant).
All become involved in the suppression of a more serious plot: a threatened coup against the Republic, orchestrated by the Guérin family. Connections are discovered between the dead woman and the police, in the form of rogue officer Joseph Fiersi, as well as with the aristocratic Gabriel Sabran de Pontevès and his family.
Cast Jérémie Laheurte as Antoine Jouin, inspired by (or precursor of) Louis-François Jouin, policeman killed by Jules Bonnot in 1912. Évelyne Brochu as Marguerite Steinheil Thibaut Évrard as Joseph Fiersi Marc Barbé as Louis Lépine Eugénie Derouand as Jeanne Chauvin Patrick d'Assumçao as Commissaire Puybaraud Alexandre Trocki as Commissaire Cochefert Hubert Delattre as Jules Guérin Valérie Dashwood as Mme Lépine Yannick Landrein as Sébastien Faure Jean-Benoît Ugeux as Morpinet Christophe Montenez as Gabriel Sabran de Pontevès Christian Hecq as Alphonse Bertillon Astrid Roos as Hélène Chagnolle Vincent Debost as Hector Anthony Paliotti as Louis Guérin Anne Benoit as Maman Guérin Renaud Rutten as Alphonse Chagnolle Nicolas Bouchaud as Weidmann Dan Herzberg as Jeannot Dornet Yann Collette as le comte Sabran de Pontevès Steve Driesen as Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau Olivier Pajot as Félix Faure Marie-Armelle Deguy as la comtesse de Vaudois Noam Morgensztern as Gustave Pertaud Eddie Chignara as Édouard Drumont Renaud Hezeques as l'inspecteur Guichard Raphaël Thiéry as Mimile
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Reception
The show was widely praised by critics, with Phil Harrison, for The Guardian, describing it as "A classy, raunchy Parisian noir... A promising mixture of high intrigue and low cunning."
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