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- Before Maigret can get the details he hangs up, calls back again from various cafés until the calls finally stop. That night his body is found, his face badly beaten and has been stabbed to death.
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In most novels, Maigret is aged around 45 to 55 years. There are contradictory clues to his year of birth. In Monsieur Gallet, décédé, which takes place in 1930, Maigret is described as 45, indicating 1885 as his year of birth.
Maigret's mother dies in childbirth, forcing Maigret to attend boarding school in Moulins and then to stay with his aunt (his father's sister) in Nantes. His time with his father is limited to weekends and holidays.
No great figure in detective fiction has ever come wholly from his creator’s imagination, of course, and Maigret is no exception to the rule. According to one popular tale, his prototype is supposed to have been an actual French detective, Marcel Guillaume, who died in 1963 at the age of 91.
Maigret, written in June 1933, was intended to be the last of the series and ended with the detective in retirement. Simenon called the Maigret novels "semi-literary" and he wanted to establish himself as a serious writer. He stated his aim was to win the Nobel Prize for Literature by 1947. [38]
Sep 13, 2024 · Quick Facts. In full: Georges-Joseph-Christian Simenon. Born: Feb. 13, 1903, Liège, Belg. Died: Sept. 4, 1989, Lausanne, Switz. (aged 86) Notable Works: “The Strange Case of Peter the Lett” Ask the Chatbot a Question.
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Georges Simenon died, aged 86, in his 36-room château outside Lausanne, a mausoleum residence where Jules Maigret would have felt ill at ease. Simenon is often and rightly read as an author who...
