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  1. Maigret locates Madame Maigret and her sister's family in the Loire valley, and he flees to England to serve as a colonel in the Free French Army and Security Director for General de Gaulle (an assignment that Maigret never discusses and on which Simenon, respecting his wishes for secrecy, only makes one slip in a later case write up).

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  2. Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon.

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    French-language Publication Date
    Penguin Uk Reissue Date
    Reissue #
    Maigret et Monsieur Charles
    February 1972
    9 Jan 2020
    75
    Maigret et l'indicateur
    June 1971
    5 Dec 2019
    74
    Maigret et l'homme tout seul
    February 1971
    7 Nov 2019
    73
    May 1970
    3 Oct 2019
    72
  3. Elizabeth faced challenges throughout her long reign - from Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Spanish Armada. She was a cautious ruler who acted carefully to preserve England’s security.

  4. Maigret, on the other hand, pursued his ambition at the University of Nantes until he was forced to leave because of the death of his father. He then moved to Paris, where he lived in a cheap hotel until he was able to gain entry into the police force at the age of 22.

  5. Sep 13, 2024 · Jules Maigret, fictional character, an unassuming, compassionate, and streetwise Parisian police commissioner who is the protagonist of more than 80 novels by Georges Simenon. Simenon’s books featuring Inspector Maigret include Pietr-le-Letton (1931; The Case of Peter the Lett), Le Chien jaune.

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  6. Jan 25, 2021 · A defender of bourgeois values, he acts as a mediator and arbitrator between conflicting social classes. Social criticism however is limited to individual cases and Maigret...

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  8. Sep 12, 2022 · Fluent in English, and resident for some years in Connecticut, he must have been well aware of the bilingual pun deposited in his hero’s name: Inspector May Gray. His Maigret books, especially ...

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