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1. www.tpr.org › revisiting-maigret-on-the-case-againRevisiting Maigret, On The Case Again - TPR

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   Mar 2, 2018 · Despite forty years gone between them, some echo of affection remains between Maigret and the Countess, and - to Gabin’s credit - no word is spoken of the melancholy that seems to set in just by returning to the town in which he was raised, and why he left is never spoken.

2. theconversation.com › inspector-maigrets-return-isInspector Maigret’s return is a case well won for crime fiction

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   Apr 3, 2014 · The answer, of course, is yes. Despite the prolific speed with which he wrote – each novel was generally produced within two weeks – the quality of the writing and of the mysteries themselves...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jules_MaigretJules Maigret - Wikipedia

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   He was from the village of Saint-Fiacre in the Allier Department, where his father Evariste Maigret was the bailiff for the local landowner; see Simenon's novel Maigret's Failure (Un échec de Maigret), about a school bully and contemporary, "Fatty" Ferdinand Fumal from the same village.

   Title	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
   La Folle de Maigret	May 1970	3 Oct 2019	72

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4. strandmag.com › the-great-detectives-maigretThe Great Detectives: Maigret - Strand Magazine

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   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. Maigret began his life in the Judiciare patrolling the mean back streets of the capital-rubbing shoulders with petty criminals, gangsters, and prostitutes.

5. crimereads.com › maigret-simenon-gauntlettThe Magic of Maigret - CrimeReads

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   Sep 19, 2024 · Such is the power of a nuanced, well-rounded, and iconic character that in Maigret, Simenon had a detective he could take (almost) anywhere. To luxury hotels, seaside resorts, ramshackle slums and country piles. But more than that: Simenon could take Maigret into the deepest and darkest recesses of the human psyche.

6. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2022/09/19The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret - The New Yorker

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   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...

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   Where did Maigret start his life?

   • Maigret began his life in the Judiciare patrolling the mean back streets of the capital-rubbing shoulders with petty criminals, gangsters, and prostitutes. Simenon had haunted the same places to collect raw material on which to base his stories.

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   How does Maigret feel about France?

   • Nonetheless, a note of defeated France—the France of endless compromise—fills the book’s slow-paced chronicle: Maigret spends the early part of the book walking round and round a music pavilion, staring at an elegant and solitary woman who later turns up dead. Beneath the standard Simenon devices, one senses an allegory of exhaustion and guilt.

   The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret - The New Yorker

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   How old is the Maigret?

   • The Maigret encountered in the first stories-which were published in the early 1930s-is about 45 years of age. In the last of the stories, published four decades later, he has just reached the mandatory retirement age of 55, though he shows no particular inclination to retire.

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   How did Maigret change his police fashion?

   • But when he became a commissaire, Maigret acknowledged changing police fashions by adopting a mackintosh and felt hat and shaving off his moustache. Throughout his books, Simenon provides many interesting details about his detective. Maigret has exceptional eyesight, essential for any good detective.

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   How does Simenon describe Maigret?

   • Throughout his books, Simenon provides many interesting details about his detective. Maigret has exceptional eyesight, essential for any good detective. Because of the demands of his work, he has taught himself to be able to grab a short sleep almost anywhere.

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   How does Maigret spend the first part of the book?

   • (Maigret goes there, in the watchful company of Madame Maigret, for a cure.) Nonetheless, a note of defeated France—the France of endless compromise—fills the book’s slow-paced chronicle: Maigret spends the early part of the book walking round and round a music pavilion, staring at an elegant and solitary woman who later turns up dead.

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8. www.millersbookreview.com › p › georges-simenonNo Mystery: The Enduring Appeal of Inspector Maigret

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   Jul 24, 2024 · The newspapers talked with complacency or anxiety about a world that was changing at breakneck speed but here, before his eyes, after all these years and a world war, were the same bottle labels that he used to see in the village inn as a child.