Georges Simenon

Biography

Simenon was born on the 2nd floor from the “26 (today 24) street Léopold” with Liege. It is the first wire of Desired Simenon, accountant in an office of insurances, and Henriette, mother to the hearth, thirteenth child resulting from an easy family, married the April 22nd, 1902. At the end of April 1905, the family moves with “3, rue Pasteur” (today 25, rue Georges Simenon) in the district of Outremeuse. One finds the history of his birth at the beginning of his novel Pedigree .

The Simenon family is originating in the Belgian Limbourg, an area of lowlands close to the Meuse, crossroads between the Flanders, the Wallonia and the Netherlands (see also Euregio the Meuse-Rhine). The family of its mother is also originating on the Dutch Limbourg, but side; lowlands of grounds wet and fogs, channels and farms. As regards his/her mother, it goes down from Gabriel Brühl (country and criminal of the band of the green-goats which, starting from 1726, under the Austrian mode, foamed Limbourg, rapinant firm and churches, and which finishes hung in September 1743 with the gibet of Waubach). Perhaps this ascent explains the private interest that carried the Maigret police chief to simple people become assassins. Limbourg makes also appearance in its work. Simenon placed a few weeks with Neeroeteren, in particular in a house which inspired the novel to him the House of the Channel .

Its youth with Liege

In September 1906 is born his/her Christian brother who will be the preferred child of his mother, which will mark Georges deeply. This faintness will be found in novels like Pietr-the-Latvian and the Fund of the bottle . He learns how to read and write as of the three years age at the Holy-Julienne school for the small ones. As from September 1908, it follows its primary studies to the Saint-Andrew Institute where during the six years that it will spend until July 1914 there, it will be always classified in the three first.

In February 1911, the family moves into a large house with “53 rue de la Loi” where the mother will be able there to rent rooms with tenants, students or trainees, of all confessions and origins (Russian, Polish or Belgian). It was for the Georges young person an extraordinary opening in the world that one will find in many his novels like Pedigree , the Tenant or unpunished Crime . About at that time, it becomes Enfant of chorus, experiment which one will find in the Business Saint-Hackney carriage and in the Testimony of the child of chorus .

In class of sixth, in September 1914, it enters to the Jésuite S, with the Saint-Louis college, and as of the twelve years age, it decides to dedicate its life with the novel. At the time of the summer 1915, it knows its first sexual experiment with a “big girl” fifteen years, which will be for him a true revelation, completely against the endoctrination of prudishness and chastity that the fathers Jesuits struck to him. Besides he will prefer to carry out his re-entry with the college Saint-Were useful which prepares with sciences and the letters and where he will spend three years of his schooling. However the future writer is always put a little at the variation by his more fortunate comrades, and so to the college of the Jesuits it had moved away from the religion, with the college Saint-Were useful it finds many reasons to hate the rich person who make him feel his social inferiority.

One day of the year 1916, the family practitioner Simenon made call the Georges young person to say to him that his/her father did not have more than one year with living and that it was necessary for him to work. This revelation upsets the Georges young person. In February 1917, the family moves to settle in an old unused post office of the district of Amercœur. In June 1918, pretexting the cardiac problems of his/her father, it decides to stop its studies definitively, without same taking part in the examinations of end of the year; several odd jobs follow without a future (apprentice-pastrycook, clerk of bookstore).

In January 1919, in open conflict with his/her mother, it enters like deferring to the heading “made various” of the very preserving newspaper the Gazette of Liege directed by Joseph Demarteau, third of the name. This journalistic period was for the young person Simenon, just sixteen years old, an extraordinary experiment which will enable him to explore the lower parts of the life of a big city, the hidden side of politics but also of criminality, to attend and penetrate the real night life, to know the drifts in the bars and the houses of master key, it will also enable him to learn how to write in an effective way. He will write more than 150 articles under the pseudonym “ G. Sim ”. During this period it particularly will be interested in the police investigations and will attend the conferences on the scientific police given by the French criminal jurist, Edmond Locard. In addition to these topics which one will find later in his novels, the catholic influence and reactionary of the Gazette of Liege led it to sign, under the title “ the Jewish Danger ”, a series of 17 pugnacious articles, radically and strongly anti-semites.

In June 1919, the family moves again to return in the district of Outremeuse, in the street of Teaching. Simenon will write there its first novel “With the Pont of the Arches”, published in 1921 under its pseudonym of journalist. Starting from November 1919, it publishes the first of its 800 tickets of mood, under the name of Mr the Cock (until December 1922). During this period, it looks further into its knowledge of the medium of the night, the prostitutes, the alcohol intoxication, the garçonnières downtown. Among its frequentations, it meets Bohemian anarchists, artists, and even two future assassins, whom one will find in his novel the Three crimes of my friends . He attended also an artistic group, called “ the Herring barrel ” but without really investing itself; however, it is in this medium that it meets a coed in Art schools, Régine Renchon, that it will marry in March 1923. In When I was old , Simenon (Presses of the City p.132) evokes (1/4/61) the influence which had on him the newspaper of FGTB inhabitant of Li2ege Wallonia , André Renard names, and before (December 30th, 1960), the strike of 1960 - 1961 from which the images make it suffer and gives him desire for sending a telegram “to Wallonia which is with the head of the revolt of the Belgian people” (without one being able to say if it is of the newspaper ( Wallonia ) or about the country (or both).

Simenon in Paris

During all this period, at the time he attended the Bohemian ones and the marginal ones, he started to cherish the idea of a true rupture, which he concretized after the death of his father, in 1922, while leaving to settle with Paris with the blonde Régine Renchon. He chooses the life of artist, discovers this large capital and learns how to like it for its are delirious, his disorders and his delights. He leaves to discovered his bars, coal merchants, furnished, poor hotels, breweries and small restaurants, which offer the beaujolais wine, andouillette and the small mitonnés dishes to him. He meets there also the small Parisian people needy craftsmen, caretakers acariâtres and poor guy with the double life.

He starts to write under various pseudonyms and its creativity ensures a fast financial success to him. At twenty years, it cut down two popular novels per week at a rate of 80 pages per day.

In 1928, it undertakes a long voyage by barge of which it draws from the reports. It discovers there water and the navigation, which will become a red wire throughout its work. It decides in 1929 to undertake a turn of France of the channels and makes build a boat, the Ostrogoth , on which it will live until in 1931. In 1930, in a series of news for Detective , written at the request of Joseph Kessel, appears for the first time the character of the Commissaire Maigret.

In 1932, Simenon leaves for a series voyages and reports in Africa, in Europe of the East, Soviet Union and Turkey. After a long cruising in the Mediterranean, it embarks for a round the world tour in 1934 and 1935. At the time of its stopovers it carries out reports, meets many characters, and does many photographs. It also benefits from it to discover the pleasure near the women under all the latitudes.

Simenon and the area of La Rochelle

In the work of Simenon, thirty-four novels and news are located or evoked the town of La Rochelle. Among the novels, in which appears this city and its area, one can quote: the Will Donnadieu (1936), the Traveller of All Saints' day (1941) and Phantoms of the Hatter .

The city this morning, resembled the La Rochelle of certain old engravings of Mrs. Brun. The tide was low, the almost empty basin of its water. The small fishing boats were little by little lying in the mud which one saw, thick, furrowed of thin brooks…
(…) Each day, the lamps ignited a little earlier and the second life of the city started, that of the good women of the countryside or of the La Rochelle, going, silhouettes black, to run up like moths against the enlightened windows, that of the quiet offices where, street, one saw employees curved under lamp-shade greens, life of winter more animated in the commercial streets, more mysterious in the lanes where the gas burners are used as point of appointment and where one étreint under the porches.

Dans the port, water felt more extremely, the boats were raised more at the rate/rhythm of the tide, the pulleys squeaked and all the small ones bars of surrounding were saturated with the odor of hot rum and wet wool.

He discovers La Rochelle in 1927 whereas he spends his holidays to the island of Aix, fleeing the dangerous attraction of Joséphine Baker of which he was the lover. This year there he discovers also a passion for navigation, and it is at the time of a race in boat that he unloads on the quays of La Rochelle and will take glass with the coffee of the Peace which will become, later, his general headquarter and which will be the central place of its novel the Will Donadieu . It is in this coffee, in 1939, which he learns by listening to TSF the declaration of war; it ordered a bottle of champagne then, and facing the incomprehension of the present, it says: “At least, that one, one is sure that she will not be drunk by the Germans! ”.

From April 1932 with 1936, it settles with his wife “Tigy” with Richardière, a Gentilhommière of the 16th century, located with Marsilly, which it uses as decoration of the castle of Donnadieu: “this gray stone building with its capped slate tower, around of which an alley of chestnut trees, a small park, then, tightened, bulky, wet, wedged between old walls, a wood in miniature, two hectares of oaks, field of the spiders and snakes”.

Beginning 1938, it rents the Agnès villa, with the La Rochelle, before buying in August 1938 “a simple house of the fields” with Nieul-on-Sea. Its first wire, Marc Simenon, were born to with it in 1939.

During all the war, between 1940 and 1945, Simenon continued to live in Charente-Maritime, but this period, rather badly known, is prone to multiple suspicions. According to certain people, during this crucial period of his life and his work, the writer would have been a collaborator - as Pierre Assouline in his biography devoted to Simenon says it ambiguously. Whereas Michel Carly in Simenon, the secret years - according to its investigation and testimonys collected - affirms that Simenon was not a “collaborationist”, but that Simenon, like much at that time, was a little loose, a little crafty one, much opportunist, without any direction of the history with a large “H”. It made “enormous imprudences” while writing in newspapers controlled by the Germans, but Simenon does not denounce, does not engage, not policy, only of the fiction. In 1944, a dispatch of the AFP, found with Poitiers, mentions its denunciation for “Intelligence with the enemy” by “certain villagers the Vendée NS exasperated by the egoistic control of this writer posting the opulence of his way of life, at the time of the tickets of food”. In addition, the “Gestapo had suspected Simenon of being Jewish, counting on a confusion between Simenon and Simon, patronym of origin Jew”.

During this period, Simenon, which is not free any more of its movements, writes enormously, twenty novels including only three Maigret. Among them of many masterpieces and paradoxically, in the intrigue of its novels, the large one presents it is the Charente-Maritime, described like “an area luminous, impressionist, where the sea joined the ground. Lowland” like a remote nostalgia of its family Limbourg.

The ambiguous vision that Simenon had area and local middle-class sometimes offusqué its inhabitants. Finally, aggravated but charmed, because in 1989, the city paid homage to him, of alive sound, by baptizing name of Georges-Simenon the quay located opposite the basin of the Large Yachts, however already very sick, it had not been able to make then, displacement. In 2003, another homage took place in the presence of his/her son, John Simenon.

Simenon after the war

Simenon thus passes the Second world war in the Vendée and maintains a correspondence with André Gide. Its last novel written in the Vendée the Circle of Mahé has as a subject the midlife crisis. In 1945, to leaving the war, it leaves to settle with the the United States, initially in California, then in Florida and in the Arizona, before settling with Lakeville in the Connecticut, in a named property " Shadow Farm" Rock'n'roll; of which the large house of 18 parts comprising 8 rooms to be slept and 6 bathrooms. It will traverse during ten years in the car this immense continent, in order to appease its curiosity and its appetite of living. During these American years, he visited intensely New York, the Florida, the Arizona, the California and all the east coast, of the thousands of miles, motels, roads and imposing landscapes.

He also will discover another way of working for the police force and justice and will also meet his second wife, the Canadian Denise Ouimet, younger 17 years. He will live with her a made passion of sex, of jealousy, arguments and of alcohol. During the first seven years that it passed to America it wrote 35 pounds of which some reached in the English translation of pullings of 500 000 specimens: “I am well in America, because over there there are no literary coffees where intellectuals tell the novels that they will not never write”. As of this time, the students in French language of the American universities start to study the work of Simenon

In 1952, it is received with the royal Académie of Belgium, and returns definitively in Europe in 1955. After one period animated on the Riviera with côtoyer the Jet set, it ends up settling in Suisse with Epalinges in the north of Lausanne, where it is made build a gigantic house. In 1956, it takes part in a ballet, “the Room” , for the Company Roland Petit, and tells, on a music of Georges Auric and in a decoration of Bernard Buffet, a police history. Satisfied with completed work, he writes, with his old friend Georges Auric, an opera where he will make sing police officers and bad lots. In 1960, it chairs the Cannes festival; this year, prestigious gold Palme was allotted to the film worship the Dolce vita of Federico Fellini.

In 1972, it gives up the novel, but did not finish any with the writing and the exploration of the meanders of the man, to start with itself, in a long autobiography of 21 volumes, dictating all on a small tape recorder: “Of the ideas, I never had of it. I was interested in the men, with the man in the street especially, I tried to include/understand it in a fraternal way… What do I have builds? At the bottom, that does not look at me. ”

The suicide of his/her daughter Marie-OJ endeuille her last years. At 86 years, Georges Simenon dies out at the dawn of September 4th, 1989; its body is incinerated the 6. From night, Téresa throws its ashes on grass of the garden, in the shade of the cedar of Lebanon, mingling them with those with his/her daughter.

Analyzes

With the difference of much of authors of today who try to build the most complex possible intrigue, like a set of failures, Simenon proposes with final simple intrigue, but a strong decoration and characters, an attaching hero of humanity, obliged to go at the end of itself, of its logic.

The message of Simenon is complex and ambiguous: neither culprits, nor innocent but of the culpabilities which are generated and destroy themselves in a chain without end. The novels of the writer plunge especially the reader in a rich world of forms, colors, scents, noises, savors and feelings tactile; one enters there as of the first sentence…

At the station of Poitiers, where it had changed train, it had not been able to resist. (…) The weather was really hot. One was in August and the express train which had brought it of Paris was crammed people who left on vacation. Furtively, excavating its bag to seek currency there, she had stammered:
- Be useful-m' in another.

The critic Robert Poulet had said: “Almost all its accounts start with hundred masterly pages, to which one attends as a natural phenomenon, and at the conclusion which one is infallibly in front of a certain quantity of living matter whose another Simenon seizes then to draw some from surprised and of the dramas much less skilfully. ” It had as specified as Simenon was better in the painting of the states than in that of the actions, defining its universe as statics.

Except Police chief Maigret, his best novels are based on intrigues located in small towns of province, where evolve/move of dark characters to sizeable appearance, but who warp dark companies, in an atmosphere underhand and contained, whose best examples are the novels the Unknown ones in the house and the Traveller of All Saints' day , but also Panique , Engagement of Mr. Hire , the Marie of the port and the Truth on baby Donge .

Is Simenon a Belgian writer (Walloon)?

Jean-Louis Dumortier ( Georges Simenon , Labor, Brussels, 1990) written that even if for the Walloons, Simenon is most famous of the representatives of the Belgian letters of French language, it is not easy to immediately attach it to the history of this literature. He fled Liege for foreign reasons with that and it is Paris which devoted it where, at the beginning, he wrote only what was regarded as Paralittérature to earn its living. After 1945, it is covered with glory, but neither as a Belgian, nor like Wallon. And that in spite of the admiration of somebody as Andre Gide which has also made to another Walloon Maurice Grevisse.

Institutional dedication to Paris then in Liege

For J-L Dumortier, The dedication will come to him (…) in particular of the University of Liege, in the neighborhoods of the years 1970. And this academic recognition is manner of appropriation. Work which the writer causes in Belgium at that time and since then is as many acts of claims, of recovery: the Wallonia is attached to the son wonder (…) far from resisting the operation, Simenon (…) encouraged by a gesture whose significance is obvious. In 1977, it makes gift of its literary files at the university of Liege where the professor Maurice Piron, with his assistants Jacques Dubois and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, creates a Fonds and a Center of studies Georges Simenon devoted to the writer.

However it should be recalled that the royal Académie of Belgium had devoted it as of 1952 by receiving it like member.

More fundamental reasons

But there is with all that of the more fundamental reasons. In Georges Simenon and its native land , Maurice Piron in Wallonia, the country and the men, volume 3, Brussels, 1975 , reference mark the novels with framework explicitly inhabitant of Li2ege: Hung of Saint-Pholien , the Dancer of the Merry-Mill , three crimes of my friends . It locates the existence of a substrate inhabitant of Li2ege in good of other novels: one notes thus that many descriptions of French provincial towns comprise anomalies which are explained if it is considered that makes Simenon of it described its birthplace. These traces inhabitants of Li2ege, innumerable, were studied by Lemoine. In addition, Simenon always asserted its statute of child of Liege. Piron considers that Pedigree is “the largest novel that Liege ever inspired”. For him, it is the work-matrix of which all other works simenoniennes are inspired as regards the major topics and the image-keys.

Simenon in figures

Its novels refer to 1.800 places of the whole world, and give life to more than 9.000 characters, but it is initially:

103 episodes of Maigret (75 novels and 28 news);
117 novels representatives 25.000 pages;
the complete works published under its patronym on 27 volumes;
more than 500 million sold books;
translates into 55 languages,
and published in 44 countries;
more than 50 films based on its work, by the French cinema;
of the thousands of articles in various newspapers;
a thousand of reports around the world.

Simenon with the cinema

The universe of Simenon relatively static, but that is forever discouraged the realizers of cinema, however “art of the movement”, to carry on big screen its work. More than fifty films were turned by the cinema to France starting from a work of Georges Simenon. Tens of others were turned by other cinema industries throughout the world.

He was the first contemporary novelist with being adapted to the beginning of speaking with the Night about the crossroads and the yellow Dog , published in 1931 and carried to the screen as of 1932.

But with final, the successes are rather rare, because between disappointing fidelity and fertile treason, the dividing line is narrow, of many realizers (and most prestigious: Jean Renoir, Maurice Turner, Flesh-colored Marcel, Henri Verneuil, Henry Hathaway, Claude Autant-Lara, Jean-Pierre Melville, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Chabrol…) tested themselves there with more or less success. Finally, the choice of the interpreter always proved to be paramount, especially for famous the Commissaire Maigret, because it is around him that will structure film, its personality, its humanity and its presence, in front of being as strong as the intrigue.

The actors who interpreted, with the cinema, celebrates it police chief are: Pierre Renoir which was one of best, Abel Tarride, Harry Baur which was also one of best, Albert Préjean which the least convincing and was most badly chosen, Charles Laughton, Michel Simon which one just foresaw, Maurice Manson, Jean Gabin who could live the role and give him an intelligent composition, Gino Cervi and Heinz Rühmann which composed a tasty and probable “Maigret”.

Jean Gabin and Simenon was very friendly and the actor turned a total of ten adapted films of Simenon, in which it almost knew to make forget his cinematographic past and its very many roles of bad lot.

Adaptations for the cinema (nonexhaustive list)

the Night of the Crossroads (Maigret) realized in 1932 by Jean Renoir with Pierre Renoir.
the yellow Dog (Maigret) realized in 1932 by Jean Tarride.
the Head of a man (Maigret) realized in 1933 by Julien Duvivier with Harry Baur.
Annette and the fair lady realized in 1942 by Jean Dréville.
the House of the seven young girls realized in 1942 by Albert Valentine.
Picpus (according to Signed Picpus ) (Maigret) realized in 1942 by Richard Pottier with Albert Préjean.
the Unknown ones in the house realized in 1942 by Henri Decoin, scenario of Henri-Georges Clouzot with Raimu.
Cécile died (Maigret) realized in 1943 by Maurice Tourneur with Albert Préjean.
the Man of London realized in 1943 by Henri Decoin.
the Traveller of All Saints' day realized in 1943 by Louis Daquin, dialogs of Marcel Aymé, with Jules Berry, Gabrielle Dorziat, Louis Seigner, Serge Reggiani and Jean Desailly.
cellars of Majestic (Maigret) realized in 1945 by Richard Pottier with Albert Préjean.
Panic (according to Engagement of Mr. Hire ) realized in 1946 by Julien Duvivier, adaptation of Charles Spaak.
Last refuge (according to the Tenant ) realized in 1946 by Marc Maurette with Raymond Roller, Mila Parély.
the Marie of the port carried out in 1949 by Flesh-colored Marcel with Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy and Nicole Courcel, images of Henri Alekan.
the Man of the Tower Eiffel (Maigret) realized in 1950 by Burgess Meredith, (according to the Head of a man ).
Forbidden fruit realized in 1951 by Henri Verneuil, (according to Letter with my judge ) with Fernandel and Raymond Pellegrin.
the Truth on Baby Donge realized in 1951 by Henri Decoin with Jean Gabin and Danielle Darrieux.
Brelan d' As (Maigret) realized in 1952 by Henri Verneuil with Michel Simon.
Snow was dirty realized in 1954 by Luis Saslavsky, with Daniel Gélin.
Fund of the bottle realized in 1956 by Henry Hathaway.
Blood with the head (according to the Son Cardinaud ) realized in 1956 by Gilles Grangier.
the Stowaway realized in 1957 by Ralph Habib.
Maigret tightens a trap (Maigret) realized in 1958 by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin.
In the event of misfortune realized in 1958 by Claude Autant-Lara, with Jean Gabin and Brigitte Bardot.
Maigret and the business Saint-Hackney carriage (Maigret) realized in 1959 by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin.
the Baron of the lock realized in 1960 by Gilles Grangier.
the President realized in 1961 by Henri Verneuil, with Jean Gabin and Bernard Blier.
the Death of Beautiful realized in 1961 by Edouard Molinaro, adaptation and dialogs of Jean Anouilh, with Jean Desailly and Yves Robert.
the Boat of Emile realized in 1962 by Denys of Patellière, with Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Pierre Brasseur and Michel Simon.
Maigret sees red (according to Maigret, Lognon and the gangsters ) (Maigret) realized in 1963 by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin.
the Elder one of Ferchaux realized in 1963 by Jean-Pierre Melville, with Charles Vanel and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Three rooms in Manhattan carried out in 1965 by Flesh-colored Marcel, with Annie Girardot and Maurice Ronet.
the Maigret Police chief in Pigalle (Maigret) realized in 1967 by Mario Landi, (according to Maigret in Picratt' S ).
Maigret makes fly (Maigret), (according to the Dancer of the merry mill ) realized in 1968 by Alfred Weidenmann with Heinz Rühmann, scenario of Herbert Reinecker, the father of the " Inspector Derrick ".
the Cat realized in 1971 by Pierre Granier-Removes iron, with Simone Signoret and Jean Gabin.
the Widow Couderc realized in 1971 by Pierre Granier-Removes iron, with Simone Signoret and Alain Delon.
the Train realized in 1973 by Pierre Granier-Removes iron, with Romy Schneider and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
the Clock and watch maker of Saint-Paul realized in 1974 by Bertrand Tavernier, with Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort.
the Star of North realized in 1982 by Pierre Granier-Removes iron, (according to the Tenant ) with Simone Signoret and Philippe Noiret.
Phantoms of the hatter realized in 1982 by Claude Chabrol, with Charles Aznavour, Michel Serrault and François Cluzet.
Ecuador realized in 1983 by Serge Gainsbourg, (according to the moon Blow) with Jean Bouise, Julien Guiomar and Francis Huster.
Mr Hire (according to Engagement of Mr. Hire ) realized in 1989 by Patrice Leconte with Michel Blanc and Sandrine Bonnaire.
Betty realized in 1992 by Claude Chabrol with Marie Trintignant.
Unknown in the house realized in 1992 by Georges Lautner with Jean-Paul Belmondo, (according to the Unknown ones in the house ).
the Teddy bear realized in 1993 by Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon.
In full heart , remake of In the event of misfortune , realized by Pierre Jolivet in 1998 with Gerard Lanvin, Carole Bouquet, Virginia Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet.
Adela carried out in 2000 by Eduardo Mignogna, with Grégoire Colin and Martin Lamotte, (according to the moon Blow).
Red lights , carries out in 2004 by Cédric Kahn, with Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Carole Bouquet.
California , carried out in 2006 by Jacques Fieschi, with Nathalie Baye, Ludivine Sagnier and Roschdy Zem (according to Way without exit ).
the Man of London , carried out in 2007 by Béla Tarr.

Simenon on television

Maigret

There exist several series of telefilms related to the Commissaire Maigret in several countries:

In France, a mini-series and two great series were turned:

a first series of three episodes was turned at the beginning of the Années 1950 with Maurice Manson in the role of Maigret. Actually these episodes were gathered and worked over again, and left to the cinema under the title Maigret directs the investigation . In 1960, a dramatic telefilm, Liberty-Bar , was also carried out with Jean-Marie Coldefy in the role.
the first great series is that carried out, starting from 1967 with Jean Richard in the role titrates, part which he will play 88 times of 24 years, to see;
the other, starting from 1991 with Bruno Cremer in the role titrates, part which he will play 54 times of 14 years. Victor Lanoux had been also approximate for the role.

In England, three series were carried out:

a series of 52 episodes was carried out between 1960 and 1964 with Rupert Davies in the role of Maigret;
a second series, between 1964 and 1968 with Kees Brusse in the role titrates;
a third carried out in 1991 with Michael Gambon under the heading “Inspector Maigret”.

In Italy, a series was carried out with Gino Cervi.
Lastly, to the the United States, some titles were adapted in telefilms as of May 1950 on CBS with some Herbert Berghof in the role titrates and in 1952 with Eli Wallach.

In Guest star of the French series, one can find large actors such as:

Catherine Allégret, Michel Blanc, Patrick Bruel, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Daniel Ceccaldi, Fanny Cottençon, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Desailly, Gerard Desarthe, Gilded Fraud, Suzanne Flon, Michel Galabru, Ginette Garcin, Roland Giraud, Daniel Gélin, Macha Méril, Simone Valère, Rosy Varte, Marthe Villalonga, and well of others… in the first series;
and, Heinz Bennent, Michel Bouquet, Élizabeth Bourgine, Dawn Clement, Arielle Dombasle, Marie Dubois, Renee Faure, Andréa Ironwood, Ginette Garcin, Bernadette Lafont, Odette Laure, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Piéplu, Agnes Soral, Alexandra Vandernoot, Karin Viard and Jean Yanne, and well of others… in the second series.

Other works

1977 : There are still hazel trees of Jean-Paul Sassy with Jacques Dumesnil.
1995 : the White with glasses of Edouard Niermans with Laurent Grévill
2000: the Elder one of Ferchaux of Bernard Stora with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Samy Naceri and Julie Depardieu
2007: Mr Joseph of Olivier Langlois with Daniel Prévost

External bonds

Any Maigret - the site of reference: Novels and news, adaptations to the cinema and on television, the blog of Maigret animated by Michel Carly
Association “Friends of Georges Simenon” with Beigen in Belgium.
Center of studies Georges Simenon (and Funds) held by the University of Liege to the Castle of Colonster to Liege in Wallonia.
Web site on the passage of Simenon at the La Rochelle Georges Simenon with the La Rochelle
Web site of the Center of Georges-Simenon studies of the University of Liege
Web site proposing an exhaustive bibliography and detailed notes
Analysis of the novels of Simenon. Dictionary of the characters.

Radiophonic files and vidéos

In 1955, “Discussions with Georges Simenon”, series of radio broadcasts animated by Andre Parinaud.
'' Vidéo '' Georges Simenon in 1975, it is expressed on its book Lettre with my mother , a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision
On the track of Maigret Retrouvez Georges Simenon through the adaptation televised of its novels on ina.fr: 51 episodes of the police chief Maigret alias Jean Richard

Books on Georges Simenon

Claude Gauteur, According to Simenon. Simenon and the Cinema , Bus Notebooks, 2001,250p.
Claudine Gothot-Mersch: To read Simenon: reality, fiction, writing , ED. Nathan/Labor, Brussels, 1980.
Michel Lemoine: Other Universe of Simenon ED. CLPCF, Liege, 1991.
Pierre Assouline: Simenon ED. Julliard, Paris, 1992.
Center of studies Georges Simenon: Simenon, the man, universe, creation ED. Complex, Brussels, 1993 (republication November 2002).
Patrick Marnham: the Man who was not Maigret - a portrait of Georges Simenon ED. Presses of the City, Paris, 2003 (with 2 booklets of photographs).
Patrick Chastenay and Philippe Chastenay: Simenon, album of family “the Tigy years” , ED. Presses of the City, Paris, 125 pages
Michel Carly: Simenon and secrecies of the La Rochelle , foreword of Denys of Patellière, ED. Slow train, 144 pages
Michel Carly: Simenon, the secret years (the Vendée 1940-1945) , ED. from Orbestier, 2005 - 180 pages.
Paris at Simenon , ED. Inking, collection work n°37.
Denis Tillinac: the Mystery Simenon

Simenon with the Pleiad

Georges Simenon, Romance , edition of Jacques Dubois and Benoît Denis. Coll " The Pleiad " , Nos 495 and 496, Gallimard Editions, 1 600 pages and 1 760 pages. This entry in the famous collection is a dedication of the work of Simenon, presented in particular by one of its best experts, the Professor inhabitant of Li2ege Jacques Dubois.

Bibliographies

Police chief Maigret

The character of the Maigret police chief makes a first appearance in 1930, in a series of news for Détective , written at the request of Joseph Kessel, but the first novel which is devoted to him is Pietr-the-Latvian (1931), written on board its ship the Ostrogoth . The Maigret police chief, massive silhouette, velvet collar, fedora and pipe with the mouth, await an international swindler in the hall of the station of North. Here how Simenon describes it:

To launch its first Maigret, Simenon organized famous anthropometric Bal at the entry of which the digital fingerprints of the guests were taken. Its editor doubted success: It is not, of the detective novels. It is not scientist. There is not a young first nor of heroin. No the character sympathetic nerve and that finish badly since one Marie never. You will not have thousand readers.

Other novels

Other books

the unlucky star (1936) Collection of news.
Sunday (1958) Romance.

Trivia

In 2005 it is nominated for the title of the Belg der Belgen (the largest Belgian). In the Flemish version it finishes with the 77e position. In the French-speaking version it finishes in 10th position.

Pseudonyms of Simenon

G. Sim
Georges Sim
Jacques Dersonne
Jean Dorsage
Georges-Martin Georges
Jean of Perry
Gaston Vialis
Christian Brulls
Luc Dorsan

It was believed a long time that Max-Andre Dazergues was a pseudonym of Simenon.

See too

Police chief Maigret: imaginary world
Investigations of the Police chief Maigret : televised series
Maigret : televised series

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