Apaches (subculture)
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Les Apaches was a Parisian Belle Époque violent criminal underworld subculture of early 20th-century hooligans, night muggers, street gangs and other criminals. After news of their notoriety spread ov
Le Petit Journal: Apaches battle Paris Police on 14 August 1904
Title page of Le Petit Journal (20 October 1907): "The Apache is the sore of Paris. More than 30,000 prowlers against 8,000 city policemen."
Apache revolver – Curtius Museum, Liège
Amélie Élie
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Amélie Élie was a French prostitute, also known as a gigolette. She gained fame under the nickname "Casque d'Or" due to a violent feud about her between two French Apaches from rivaling gangs in the P
Apaches (subculture)
…Apache gangsters. Pierre Decourcelle's play Gigolette (slang for young prostitute) (1893) was based on the story of a love triangle between prostitute Amelie Elie and members of the Apache gang, Joseph Pleigneur and Dominique Francois Eugéne Lecac. At least two film versions followed decades later. Casque d'Or…
Casque d'Or, la célèbre gigolette photographie Eugène Pirou
Actress Simone Signoret, who played Marie in Casque d'Or.