Jules Maigret
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fictional French police detective
Key facts
- First appearance
- The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (1930)
- Last appearance
- Maigret and Monsieur Charles (1972)
- Created by
- Georges Simenon
- Occupation
- Detective Chief Superintendent
- Family
- Evariste Maigret (father) Hernance Maigret (mother)
- Spouse
- Louise Léonard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1912 )
- Nationality
- French
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary character
- Given name
- Jules
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Allier
- Occupation
- criminalist
- Creator
- Georges Simenon
- Performer
- Gino Cervi
- Image
- SimenonMaigret-StudioHarcourt-1952.png
- Work location
- Paris
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- topic's main category
- Category:Maigret
- Commons category
- Maigret
- birth name
- Jules Amédée François Maigret
- name in native language
- Commissaire Maigret
- present in work
- Maigret Loses His Temper
- name
- Жюль-Амеде-Франсуа Мегрэ
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Encyclopedic overview
Jules Maigret ( French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("inspector") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret.
Between 1930 and 1972, 75 novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, starting with Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett) and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles (Maigret and Monsieur Charles). The novels and stories have been translated into more than 50 languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jules Maigret” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.