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    Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective...
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    Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective...
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  • Magnet of Doom (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    1963 French noir film, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, based on the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon. In Paris the young ex-paratrooper and...
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    Jules Maigret (category Georges Simenon)
    Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret. Between 1931...
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  • Jean-Marc (1964) Sieglohr p.68 Hayward p.242 Assouline p.308 Assouline, Pierre. Simenon: A Biography. Knopf, 1997. Hayward, Susan. Simone Signoret: The Star...
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    actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother. Pierre Renoir was born on March...
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  • The Train (1973 film) (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    Franco–Italian film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. The film is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Georges Simenon. In May 1940 a packed train...
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    The Adventures of Tintin Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the art dealer Georges Simenon, the detective novelist and creator of Inspector Maigret Several of these...
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  • Night at the Crossroads (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    English as Maigret at the Crossroads) by Georges Simenon and starring Renoir's brother Pierre Renoir as Simenon's popular detective, Inspector Maigret. The French...
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  • Le Chat (film) (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    is a 1971 French-language drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Georges Simenon's 1967 novel The Cat. It recounts the story of an...
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  • Act of Passion (category Novels by Georges Simenon)
    à mon juge (Letter to My Judge) was written by Belgian author Georges Simenon in 1946 during his stay at Bradenton Beach, Florida and published in Paris...
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  • L'Étoile du Nord (film) (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    North Star) is a 1982 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on a novel by Georges Simenon, starring Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret,...
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    Têtes by Philippe Bouvard on RTL. Demongeot was married to director Marc Simenon from 1968 until his death in 1999. She resided in a country house in Mayenne...
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  • The Cat (novel) (category Novels by Georges Simenon)
    is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, released in 1967. The novel was written, usually for Simenon, within a short period of two weeks between...
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  • The Widow Couderc (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    French drama film based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Georges Simenon. In 1934, in a little village on a canal in Burgundy (Cheuge), a laconic...
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  • In Case of Adversity (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    screenplay was written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost after the novel In Case of Emergency by Georges Simenon. The film was released in France on 17 September...
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    French Cancan, with María Félix and Françoise Arnoul. Gabin played Georges Simenon's detective Jules Maigret in three films in 1958, 1959 and 1963. Over the...
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  • The Couple from Poitiers (category Novels by Georges Simenon)
    main character Gérard in the novel. It is because of this that Simenon's biographer Pierre Assouline describes The Couple from Poitiers as one of the author's...
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    George Antheil, and Harry and Caresse Crosby. The Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903–1989), creator of the fictional detective Commissaire Jules Maigret...
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  • Stranger in the House (1967 film) (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    directed by Pierre Rouve and starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin and Bobby Darin. It was written by Rouve based on the novel by Georges Simenon, and produced...
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  • name used by the French crime-writing duo of Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, also known as Thomas Narcejac (3 July...
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  • La Maison du canal (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    Georges Simenon Music : Vincent D'Hondt Date of release: 24 February 2003 Isild Le Besco : Edmée Corentin Lobet : Jeff Nicolas Buysse : Fred Jean-Pierre Cassel :...
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    Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director. He was married four times: to Claude...
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    2016 Maigret tend un piège, by Georges Simenon — 2016 (Presses de la Cité, 1955) L'amour sans le faire, by Pierre Joncours — 2016 (Flammarion, 2012) Ennemies...
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  • Red Lights (2004 film) (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    eponymous 1955 Georges Simenon novel set in the Northeastern United States. The film is set in modern-day France. The film stars Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Carole...
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  • Jacques Demy) - Thibaud L'explosion (The Hideout) (1971, directed by Marc Simenon - 1971) - Dubois La Grande mafia (La Grande Maffia) (1971, directed by...
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  • The Clockmaker (category Films based on works by Georges Simenon)
    Bertrand Tavernier. Based on the 1954 novel L'Horloger d'Everton by Georges Simenon, it tells the story of a widowed father who first discovers how little...
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    Patrice Chéreau 1998 : En plein cœur, directed by Pierre Jolivet, adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, En cas de malheur 1999 : Trait d'union, directed...
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  • The Glass Cage (novel) (category Novels by Georges Simenon)
    Cage de verre (1971), translated as The Glass Cage, is a novel by Georges Simenon; it is one of the author's self-described roman durs or "hard novels" to...
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  • was enriched by 21 of Simenon's novels. Jacques Dubois, president of the Center for Georges Simenon Studies has chosen the Simenon's books, written the notes...
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