Maigret
Jules Maigret ([ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amedée François Maigret.[1]
75 novels[1] and 28 short stories[2] about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972, starting with Pietr-le-Letton ("Peter the Lett") and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ("Maigret and Monsieur Charles"). The Maigret stories were also adapted for television and radio. Penguin Books published new translations of 75 books in the series over as many months;[1] the project was begun in November 2013, by translators David Bellos, Anthea Bell, and Ros Schwartz.
Creation
The character of Maigret was invented by Simenon while drinking in a cafe by a Dutch canal[1] and imagining a Parisian policeman "a large powerfully built gentleman...a pipe, a bowler hat, a thick overcoat."[4] Maigret was reputed to be based on Marcel Guillaume [fr], an actual French detective[5] although Simenon himself variously claimed not to remember the inspiration or that Maigret was influenced by Simenon's own father.[5]
Biographers Thomas Narcejac and Fenton Bresler both see Simenon himself in his creation
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