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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.
Maigret's father, Evariste, dies of pleurisy, but his son suspects that it might have been TB. 1909: Maigret abandons medical school and Nantes, moves to Paris, and joins the Paris Police Department. 1912: Maigret meets and marries Louise Leonard, and the couple moves into an apartment at 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. 1913-1921
Mar 16, 2016 · Le Cyrano also appears in Maigret au Picratt’s, a strip club on the corner of Rue Pigalle and Rue Fontaine, where Breton actually lived, on the 9th arrondissement side of Place Pigalle. The Picratt’s was Simenon’s creation, but there were plenty like it in this district.
Three years after the appearance of Pietr-le-Lotton, the French actor Pierre Renoir became the first screen Maigret in La Nuit du Carrefour (The Crossroad Murders) (1932), which was based on a script by Simenon and the director Jean Renoir.
Sep 12, 2022 · The Maigret we first meet, in a 1931 novel titled “Pietr the Latvian,” remains essentially unchanged over the next forty years. There are some gradations.
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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Nov 20, 2013 · To launch Maigret upon the world, he organised what he called a bal anthropométrique, an “anthropometric ball”. On 20 February 1931, at a nightclub at 33 Rue Vavin, near the Luxembourg Gardens, 1,000 guests gathered to celebrate Simenon’s new creation.
