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Les Apaches () was a Parisian Belle Époque violent criminal underworld subculture of early 20th century: hooligans, night muggers, street gangs, etc.〔Philipp Blom, ''The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914'', 2008, ISBN 0786726709, (p. 372 )〕 After the news about their notoriety spread over Europe, the term was used to describe violent street crime in other countries as well: "Russian apaches", etc.〔 ==Name== There are a number of stories about the origin of the term "Apaches", with a common denominator that this was a comparison of their savagery with that attributed by Europeans to the Native American tribes of Apaches. A 1904 issue of the French question-and-answer magazine ' credited a journalist Victor Moris with the popularization of the term. In November 1900 a police inspector of the Belleville district of police was describing to him a particularly bloody scene and concluded with the words: "C'est un véritable truc d'Apaches!".〔''L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux'', 1904, vol. 49, no. 1034 (p. 448 )〕 A story in a 1910 Sunday supplement of ''Le Petit Journal'' claimed that when a certain gang leader nicknamed ''Terreur'' (Terror) heard that the actions of the band were compared with these of the Apaches, was so pleased that he proceeded to call his gang "Apaches of Belleville". 〔("Comment debarasser Paris des Apaches?" ) ("How to Rid Paris of Apaches?"), ''Le Petit journal. Supplément du dimanche'', no. 1001, January 23, 1910 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apaches (subculture)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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