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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.
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.
Jules Amedée François Maigret, simply Jules Maigret or Maigret to most people, including his wife, is a fictional French police detective, actually a commissaire or commissioner of the Paris "Brigade Criminelle" (Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris), …
In this article, Peter Haining examines the legacy of Belgian author Georges Simenon's classic fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Mar 16, 2016 · Georges Simenon’s Paris: Following in the Footsteps of his Fictional Sleuth, Jules Maigret. First published: March 16, 2016 by Thirza Vallois 1. No wonder Georges Simenon set most of the Maigret stories in Paris – 63 out of 75 of them in fact.
Jan 25, 2021 · Created by a prolific French author, Inspector Jules Maigret observes without judgement and moves like a chameleon between social classes.
Jules Maigret, or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret.
Jan 10, 2020 · How Georges Simenon reinvented the detective novel with Maigret. Hyper-prolific yet critically adored, the Belgian writer took crime novels into new terrority with his 75 books series – newly translated this week – winning devoted fans from Muriel Spark to Alfred Hitchcock in the process. John Self 10 January 2020.
Maigret, the detective hero of scores of books (all of which are made up of short novels or short stories — there is no full-length Maigret novel), devotes his life and considerable talents to discovering murderers, but he often is depressed by their capture.
Jul 29, 2022 · His most famous literary creation was the streetwise, pipe-chomping police commissioner Jules Maigret, who starred in 75 novels, beginning with Pietr the Latvian in 1931 and ending with...
