Re: Maigret Tend Un Piege Pdf 11
Avery Blaschko
Maigret Sets a Trap (French: Maigret tend un piège) is a 1958 French-Italian crime film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot and Olivier Hussenot.[1] It is an adaptation of the novel Maigret Sets a Trap by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Maigret tend un piège est un roman policier de Georges Simenon publié en 1955. Il fait partie de la série des Maigret. Son écriture s'est déroulée entre les 5 et 12 juillet 1955 à La Gatounière, à Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes).
Maigret of the Month: Maigret tend un piège (Maigret Sets a Trap)
1/1/08 For me the book's main interests are first the talk between Maigret and Prof. Tissot where they discuss between men of exprience, experiences in other men's lives,and second, the confrontation between Maigret and Moncin, his wife and his mother.He really plays the two women against each other to let the truth come out.During all the first part of the book, there is a feeling that Maigret is not at easeand cannot do what he likes so much: getting to know the victims, here they lived.There are too many victims and the process does not work. It looks like it is nota "Maigret type of crime" -- serial kilers are not for Maigret.I went around Paris this morning and took some pictures of the main placesof the book. All the places are really near to each other. Each of the streetsnamed does cross another one named in the book. [click on an image to enlarge]Ave. Rachel is very short and wide. It has a length of 100 m and at its other end is the entry to the Montmartre cemetery. There is also a stair going up toRue Caulincourt (near the bridge above the cemetery). It would be difficult tohide in a street like this one. It is between Place de Clichy and Place Blanchewhich are two very populous places with lots of trafic. The cemetery being closedat night, Avenue Rachel is probably quiet. The picture is taken from Blvd de Clichytoward the entry of the cemetery. (a) Rue Etex (now called Rue de la Barrière Blanche) is not a very nice street, witha very long wall for the cemetery, and the hospital on the other side.It is only 250 m from the building were Moncin was a kid. You can see it with thehospital on the left of the picture. (c) This picture of Rue Lepic was taken from the level of the Moulin de la Galette lookingup in the direction of the place were the murder took place. (b) The building on Blvd St Germain where Moncin lived was being restoredand hidden by protection so I could not take a picture of it. I took the232 Blvd St-Germain which is similar. Both buildings are at the cornerof Rue St-Thomas d'Aquin (that is the St-Thomas Church in the background).There is a direct connection by subway between Montmartre (station Pigalle,Abesse and Lamark-Caulaincourt) and Rue Solferino by line 12 so it wasconvenient for Moncin to use it to visit his mother (20 min).1/3/09 - Here's the actual buidling, a year later, restoration completed.Rue Durantin (below) is an average street, running in 3 parts and crossing Rue Tholoze.
This picture of Rue Tholoze (right) is taken from the crossing with Rue Durantin, looking uptoward Moulin de la Galette. So you can see that all the places are really mixed together.(it is tiring to walk up and down all the time in this part of Montmartre). (d) (e)
Avenue Junot is a wide avenue that ends up in Rue Norvins. (f)At the start of Rue Norvins,there is today the Place Marcel Aymé, for the French writer who wrote "Walker-through-Walls".Marcel Aymé did the preface to "The Yellow Dog", which is the only preface I can rememberfor a Maigret. In Rue Norvins, I found only one small alley, a dead end -- Impasse du Tertre, where Moncincould have been hidden to wait for his prey. (f)Rue Maistre is divied in two parts: one along the cemetery and a short one betweenRue Caulaincourt and Rue des Abesses. (g) (h)
This (right) is the corner of Rue Caulaincourt where there is the buidling where Moncin grew up. It is just in front of a large intersection and overlooking the cemetery.Here is a GoogleEarth picture all the places in the order they appear in the book (from a to h):A movie was made in 1958 by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin playing Maigret.Other well known French actors like Lino Ventura (Inspector Torrence)and Annie Girardot were in the movie, which can be found on DVD.Regards,
JérômeMaigret of the Month: Maigret tend un piège (Maigret Sets a Trap)
1/20/08 [translation]