L'Academie Sinistaire

L'Academie Sinistaire was a secretive college based in Paris which prepared youths for a life of crime. It existed over centuries, and one of its graduates believed Spring-heeled Jack and Chairman Mao to have shown "clear signs of the academy's influence or conditioning". The Academie was overseen by the Five-Man Council, "individuals whose criminal exploits would become the stuff of legend during the twentieth century". (PROSE: The Beasthouse)