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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.
Unlike most fictional detectives, Maigret does not use the process of reasoning while engaged in an investigation, but instead relies on his intuition and unique facilities of perception to study all those involved and eventually identify the killer.
Sep 12, 2022 · The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret. Georges Simenon was a high-living libertine; his greatest creation was a man of moral restraint. Yet the writer’s excesses are a clue to his...
Mar 16, 2016 · Maigret’s persona, on the other hand, is largely inspired by real-life Commissaire Guillaume, le grand patron of the Police Judiciaire (PJ, pronounced pé’ji), who was in charge of the most famous criminal investigations of the time. A smoker of cigarettes rather than pipes, he was also significantly slimmer.
Sep 19, 2024 · The killers are often complex people, with profound interiorities and divergent psychologies. And that, for Simenon is the real puzzle. As Scott Bradfield wrote in his NYT article, ‘Maigret rarely solves crimes; instead he solves people.’.
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.
Jan 3, 2018 · While an inspector from Scotland Yard is visiting Maigret to study his methods, Maigret investigates a murder in the south of France. The investigation leads Maigret and his new friend to an island bathed in sun and secrets.
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