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Le Pipe De Maigre Et Maigret Se Fache
Une sordide affaire de famille - Dans sa retraite de Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret est sollicité par Bernadette Amorelle qui s'inquiète de la récente noyade dans la Seine de sa petite-fille Monita : la jeune fille nageait bien et il ne doit pas s'agir d'un accident. (Le roman est suivi de la nouvelle "La pipe de Maigret".)
Une sordide affaire de famille
Dans sa retraite de Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret est sollicité par Bernadette Amorelle qui s'inquiète de la récente noyade dans la Seine de sa petite-fille Monita : la jeune fille nageait bien et il ne doit pas s'agir d'un accident. Maigret arrive à Orsenne où son enquête le conduit dans trois maisons luxueuses : l'une est habitée par le vieux Désiré Campois ; dans une autre résident Bernadette, sa fille Aimée et son gendre Charles Malik, parents de Monita ; la troisième est occupée par Ernest Malik, son épouse Laurence et leurs deux fils... (Le roman est suivi de la nouvelle " La pipe de Maigret".)
Adapté pour la télévision anglaise en 1962, sous le titre The Dirty House , dans une réalisation de Terence Williams, avec Rupert Davies (Commissaire Maigret) et pour la télévision française en 1972, par François Villiers, avec Jean Richard (Commissaire Maigret), Mary Marquet (Bernadette), Daniel Ceccaldi (Ernest Malik), Dora Doll (Jeanne), Dominique Blanchar (Mme Maigret).
Simenon chez Omnibus : les enquêtes du célèbre commissaire Maigret, et les très "noirs' Romans durs
Une sordide affaire de famille
Dans sa retraite de Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret est sollicité par Bernadette Amorelle qui s'inquiète de la récente noyade dans la Seine de sa petite-fille Monita : la jeune fille nageait bien et il ne doit pas s'agir d'un accident. Maigret arrive à Orsenne où son enquête le conduit dans trois maisons luxueuses : l'une est habitée par le vieux Désiré Campois ; dans une autre résident Bernadette, sa fille Aimée et son gendre Charles Malik, parents de Monita ; la troisième est occupée par Ernest Malik, son épouse Laurence et leurs deux fils... (Le roman est suivi de la nouvelle " La pipe de Maigret".)
Adapté pour la télévision anglaise en 1962, sous le titre The Dirty House , dans une réalisation de Terence Williams, avec Rupert Davies (Commissaire Maigret) et pour la télévision française en 1972, par François Villiers, avec Jean Richard (Commissaire Maigret), Mary Marquet (Bernadette), Daniel Ceccaldi (Ernest Malik), Dora Doll (Jeanne), Dominique Blanchar (Mme Maigret).
Simenon chez Omnibus : les enquêtes du célèbre commissaire Maigret, et les très "noirs' Romans durs
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Georges Simenon
2,755 books2,317 followersGeorges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.
Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.
He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. The first novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, appeared in 1931; the last one, Maigret et M. Charles, was published in 1972. The Maigret novels were translated into all major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio plays. Two television series (1960-63 and 1992-93) have been made in Great Britain.
During his "American" period, Simenon reached the height of his creative powers, and several novels of those years were inspired by the context in which they were written (Trois chambres à Manhattan (1946), Maigret à New York (1947), Maigret se fâche (1947)).
Simenon also wrote a large number of "psychological novels", such as La neige était sale (1948) or Le fils (1957), as well as several autobiographical works, in particular Je me souviens (1945), Pedigree (1948), Mémoires intimes (1981).
In 1966, Simenon was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
In 2005 he was nominated for the title of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian). In the Flemish version he ended 77th place. In the Walloon version he ended 10th place.
Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.
Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.
He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. The first novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, appeared in 1931; the last one, Maigret et M. Charles, was published in 1972. The Maigret novels were translated into all major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio plays. Two television series (1960-63 and 1992-93) have been made in Great Britain.
During his "American" period, Simenon reached the height of his creative powers, and several novels of those years were inspired by the context in which they were written (Trois chambres à Manhattan (1946), Maigret à New York (1947), Maigret se fâche (1947)).
Simenon also wrote a large number of "psychological novels", such as La neige était sale (1948) or Le fils (1957), as well as several autobiographical works, in particular Je me souviens (1945), Pedigree (1948), Mémoires intimes (1981).
In 1966, Simenon was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
In 2005 he was nominated for the title of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian). In the Flemish version he ended 77th place. In the Walloon version he ended 10th place.
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October 13, 2017
Good accessible French reading practice.
January 26, 2026
Leuke korte misdaadroman, en niet al te moeilijk, eigenlijk wist de detective op pagina 5 al ongeveer hoe de vork in de steel stak, 50 pagina's later was het vermoeden bevestigd. effectieve recherche.
September 21, 2019
I love Simenon... talk about a bad guy writing good books... a thoroughly unpleasant man that has under his belt a number of "crimes" that would not have put him in jail at the time but today he would not live well...
But he writes like people drink or eat, non stop, every day, and puts down a world so far from his world and at the same time so close in its essence... it is the world of the Flemish country between the two wars, the world that he discovered in Paris, the world he never got used to... everything he writes down and everything he thinks is breathing true...
He never felt accepted, wherever he was Simenon was the outsider... and he noticed things that the outsiders see, take into account, maybe to use them when they will try to copy the insiders to make believe they are one of them...
He adds details, all the time, and it never feels like too many details...
He makes the past world of the Paris in the 50s and the 60s so real... the look of the city, the streets he names and describes, the smells... When I read about Maigret drinking his "demi" at the Brasserie Dauphine, his "petit vin blanc sur le zinc", I can hear the noise of the cafe, I can smell the heat of the city in the summer with the sickening smell of beer...
I was a toddler, a 3 or 4 year old when these novels more or less took place but I remember this grey Paris with so few cars, and people with drab clothes in the street... the railroad stations where all the "valises" are black or brown, mostly brown...
The way people repaired things...
All these tiny details like the way the wife of the accused man in this book has to go to a "lavoir" as there is no space in their apt and workshop to wash or dry clothes and linens... they live Place des Vosges which is so chic now but at the time it was shoemakers, bookbinders, and concierges who occupied the ground floors...
People lived in their neighborhoods, did not always go to others areas of the city, knew the other side of the world only by watching the bourgeois (or for the bourgeois the workers) in their area... the world was mixed... a quality of the French buildings since the early 19th century that seems to have been lost...
Simenon the mean genius who gives us back the dark Paris of the fifties, the strange world of the boats on the canals of the East and the North, and their handlers... the animals dragging the barges, the people working like animals, dragging the world on their shoulders... and the misery, the savings, the miser and the gambler, he has them all...
But he writes like people drink or eat, non stop, every day, and puts down a world so far from his world and at the same time so close in its essence... it is the world of the Flemish country between the two wars, the world that he discovered in Paris, the world he never got used to... everything he writes down and everything he thinks is breathing true...
He never felt accepted, wherever he was Simenon was the outsider... and he noticed things that the outsiders see, take into account, maybe to use them when they will try to copy the insiders to make believe they are one of them...
He adds details, all the time, and it never feels like too many details...
He makes the past world of the Paris in the 50s and the 60s so real... the look of the city, the streets he names and describes, the smells... When I read about Maigret drinking his "demi" at the Brasserie Dauphine, his "petit vin blanc sur le zinc", I can hear the noise of the cafe, I can smell the heat of the city in the summer with the sickening smell of beer...
I was a toddler, a 3 or 4 year old when these novels more or less took place but I remember this grey Paris with so few cars, and people with drab clothes in the street... the railroad stations where all the "valises" are black or brown, mostly brown...
The way people repaired things...
All these tiny details like the way the wife of the accused man in this book has to go to a "lavoir" as there is no space in their apt and workshop to wash or dry clothes and linens... they live Place des Vosges which is so chic now but at the time it was shoemakers, bookbinders, and concierges who occupied the ground floors...
People lived in their neighborhoods, did not always go to others areas of the city, knew the other side of the world only by watching the bourgeois (or for the bourgeois the workers) in their area... the world was mixed... a quality of the French buildings since the early 19th century that seems to have been lost...
Simenon the mean genius who gives us back the dark Paris of the fifties, the strange world of the boats on the canals of the East and the North, and their handlers... the animals dragging the barges, the people working like animals, dragging the world on their shoulders... and the misery, the savings, the miser and the gambler, he has them all...
November 22, 2011
( Maigret e os cães ferozes )
August 21, 2018
Two charming Maigret mysteries.
April 28, 2019
Maigret se enfada: muestra al retirado detective interrumpiendo su descanso para acudir en ayuda de una anciana que cree que la muerte de su nieta no ha sido un accidente. Una vez más, todo sucede con un ritmo rápido y el desenlace no resulta evidente.
La pipa de Maigret: el detective resuelve el extraño caso de desaparición de una persona debido al interés personal de recuperar su pipa.
La pipa de Maigret: el detective resuelve el extraño caso de desaparición de una persona debido al interés personal de recuperar su pipa.
September 16, 2012
Actually I read only "Maigret se fâche" (and not "Le Pipe de Maigret") but couldn't find it as a book by itself on Goodreads, so have had to review this edition! It's a very good read, nicely plotted and well written. The first Maigret book I have read and I would recommend it.
April 26, 2020
Un court roman et un nouvelle où l'on retrouve le calme génie du grand belge : lucidité, humour, profondeur, tendresse bourrue. On devrait tous faire un petite cure de Simenon de temps en temps
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