2920820 Murder in the Passage du Cheval Rouge, c.1835 (engraving) by Beauce, Jean Adolphe (1818-75) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pierre Francois Lacenaire (1800-36) a French poet, murdered a transvestite Chardon and his mother in 1834. Jean-Francois Chardon was a prison acquaintance visited by Lacenaire at his lodgings in Passage du Cheval Rouge, Paris where he stabbed him in the back, his accomplice Avril finishing him off with a hatchet, while Lacenaire killed Chardon\'s mother using a shoemaker\'s awl. They were both executed by guillotine. In Dostoevsky\'s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov\'s crime was based on Lacenaire\'s.).