| Genre: | Crime drama Serial drama Action fiction |
| Creator: | Frédéric Balekdjian Fabien Nury |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Num Series: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 14 |
| Runtime: | 52 minutes |
| Channel: | Canal+ |
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[1] and was shown on BBC Four in October 2021. A follow-up series of six episodes, featuring the same characters and called, was released in 2022.
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.[2] [3] 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.
The show was widely praised by critics,[7] [8] with Phil Harrison, for The Guardian, describing it as "A classy, raunchy Parisian noir... A promising mixture of high intrigue and low cunning."[8]