Goron and his visit to the Ripper sites

[Chris Scott]

In a number of threads mentionhas been made of French official who visited London and may possible be the means by which the Ripper photos got to France.
How and Stewart Evans and others have posted about this. For example Stewart posted:
"We also do not know how frequently, and to whom, senior police officers such as Anderson and Macnaghten showed such photographs to others. As we know in 1892 Anderson was at it showing Whitechapel victim photographs to a representative of Cassell's Saturday Journal. Goron was a senior French detective, in London in his official capacity working on the Gouffe case. You can almost imagine Macnaghten and Goron enjoying a drink together at a club and the Frenchman asking about the Ripper crimes. Macnaghten may have replied "I believe you are visiting Sims' little museum later, he'll show you the photographs of the Whitechapel victims that I gave him." Who knows?"

As the material on Goron is in a variety of threads, if you do a search on his name you can read what has been posted.
The reason for my post is to add some extracts from Goron's memoirs which describe his visit to London and the Ripper sites.
The memoir is called L'Amour Criminel and the title page is below.

[Chris Scott]

Here is the section where he describes his visit to the Ripper sites(pages 108-109).
I'll get a translation posted as soon as I can

[Chris Scott]

Marie Francois Goron "L'Amour Criminel"

Indeed, guided by my friend Melville, the famous New Scotland Yard inspector, and Sergeant Sexton, his right hand man, I visited the various places in Whitechapel where the anonymous man named Jack the Ripper committed his awful crimes.
The number of women killed under identical circumstances and whose deaths have been attributed to Jack the Ripper by public opinion, is about a dozen, but following the inquiries made by the English authorities, one should not place all these deeds as being by the hand of the same individual, and it must be supposed, in the light of certain details revealed by the detectives, that some of these crimes, probably half, have been perpetrated by imitators of the sinister Jack.
Besides, almost always these infamous criminals, whose deeds strike the public imagination, have their imitators, like all famous writers.
During my stay in London, in one place that I was shown there was committed the most striking crime, the crime which best demonstrated, perhaps, the daring and the skill of this strange murderer.
At a certain crossroads there was normally stationed a policeman; one night he left this post for about ten minutes to make his rounds of the small block of buildings to one side. When he returned, he found, at the foot of the street lamp at the centre of the crossroads an eviscerated woman, whose sexual parts had been torn in the manner of Jack the Ripper!
That caused me to often wonder if, even in Paris, where we have no concentration of women and wretches which can be compared to Whitechapel, the French police would have had more success, faced with a criminal of this audacity, leaving for the attention of the police, every fortnight, the body of a women of the street... and only killing among the most wretched of that class of unfortunates.
My English colleagues in London were then vilified, just as had been done in Paris in the case of the poor Mr. Taylor.
Which proves that things are just as unjust in England as in France.

[Howard Brown]

Chris:
Merci beaucoups for posting this on the boards !