Paris Police 1900

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.

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 : Antoine Jouin, inspired by (or precursor of) Louis-François Jouin, policeman killed by Jules Bonnot in 1912.
 * Évelyne Brochu : Marguerite Steinheil
 * Thibaut Évrard : Joseph Fiersi
 * Marc Barbé : Louis Lépine
 * Eugénie Derouand : Jeanne Chauvin
 * Patrick d'Assumçao : Commissaire Puybaraud
 * Alexandre Trocki : Commissaire Cochefert
 * Hubert Delattre : Jules Guérin
 * Valérie Dashwood : Mme Lépine
 * Yannick Landrein : Sébastien Faure
 * Jean-Benoît Ugeux : Morpinet
 * Christophe Montenez : Gabriel Sabran de Pontevès
 * Christian Hecq : Alphonse Bertillon
 * Astrid Roos : Hélène Chagnolle
 * Vincent Debost : Hector
 * Anthony Paliotti : Louis Guérin
 * Anne Benoit : Maman Guérin
 * Renaud Rutten : Alphonse Chagnolle
 * Nicolas Bouchaud : Weidmann
 * Dan Herzberg : Jeannot Dornet
 * Yann Collette : le comte Sabran de Pontevès
 * Steve Driesen : Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
 * Olivier Pajot : Félix Faure
 * Marie-Armelle Deguy : la comtesse de Vaudois
 * Noam Morgensztern : Gustave Pertaud
 * Eddie Chignara : Édouard Drumont
 * Renaud Hezeques : l'inspecteur Guichard
 * Raphaël Thiéry : Mimile

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."