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[6] Maigret was reputed to be based on Marcel Guillaume, an actual French detective [7] although Simenon himself variously claimed not to remember the inspiration or that Maigret was influenced by Simenon's own father.
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 detective’s...
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.
Sep 10, 2024 · (Rumor is that Maigret was based on real-life French police chief Marcel Guillaume, but Simenon disputed that.) His stories are also firmly rooted in the politics and social structure of the mid-20th century, and all of the adaptations, including the most recent Atkinson films, have stayed faithful to that world, which is why this new ...
Simply titled Maigret, it’s based on 1954’s Maigret et la jeune morte or Maigret and the Dead Girl. Like many Maigret books, you could explain the plot in a sentence – here, a young girl’s body is found and Maigret has to unravel the secrets of upper-class figures with something to hide, while also uncovering the life of the victim.
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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 · Joseph Huertin, a slow-witted delivery boy, faces the gallows for the twin murders of the wealthy American Mme. Henderson and her maid. Certain of his guilt, all others have long deserted Huertin. Maigret, however, senses there is more at play here. And it’s not often that our hero is wrong.
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