Abetz, Otto, 197 Aboard the Aquitaine (GS) see 45° a l’ombre
Academie Royale, Brussels, 261, 264, 273
Accomplices, The (GS) see Complices, Les Achard, Marcel, 120, 260 Act of Passion (GS) see Lettre a mon juge Africa, 151-4
Afrique vous parte, L’: (film), 152 ‘Afrique vous parte, L’: elle vous dit merde’ (articles; GS), 152 Aimee, Anouk, 249 Aitken, Joyce, 282-3, 291 Amant sans nom, L’ (GS), 131 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 256 Americano-Hispanic Commission for Relief to Belgium, 40 Amsterdam, 295-6 Andre, Joseph: marries GS’s mother, 129, 170-1, 296 Ane-Rouge, L’ (Liege bar),
75-6
Ane-Rouge, L’ (The Night Club GS), 171, 175, 195n Anneaux de Bicetre, Les (The Patient-, GS), 161, 281, 302 Annette et la dame blonde (film), 207
Anschluss (Austria, 1938), 167 anti-semitism, 68-9, 207; see also Jews
Antoine et Julie (The Magician-, GS), 266, 275
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 279 Aragon, Louis, 217-18, 219n Arletty (actress), 207 Armistice, 1918, 53-5 Aron, Raymond: Les voyageurs de I’imperiale, 206
Assassin, L’ (The Murderer, GS), 175
Au-dela de ma porte-fenetre (GS), 75
Au Pont des Arches (GS), 70-2,
85, 88
Autant-Lara, Claude, 286n Autres, Les (The Others', GS), 309
Baker, Josephine, 107, 122-5, 128
bal anthropometrique, 133-4,
151n; reconstruction, 260 Balzac, Honore de, 116, 174, 207, 276-8, 303, 315; Le pere Goriot, Til
Banana Tourist (GS) see Touriste de bananes
Banc au soleil, Un (GS), 305 Barde (ex-concentration camp inmate), 258 Bardot, Brigitte, 286 Bateau d’Emile, Le (short stories; GS), 215, 223
Battle of Nerves, A (GS) see Tete d’un homme, La Baur, Harry, 206-7 Bechevel, Dr de, 168 Belgium: GS’s attitude to, 4; mixed population, 14; and outbreak of Great War, 36-40; trial of wartime collaborators in, 67-8; Flemish language recognised, 72; smuggling trade with Germany, 87-8; 1938 mobilisation, 169; in World War II, 184-6; refugees, 186-7; armistice (1940), 188; GS visits (1952), 261; see also Liege Belle (GS) see Mart de Belle, La Benoit, Pierre, 205, 208,
217-18, 264
Beraud, Henri, 120 Bergelon (The Country Doctor, GS), 176
Betty (GS), 286, 288
Big Bob (GS) see Grand Bob, Le
Binet-Valmer, Henri (i.e.
Gustave Binet), 108, 110-11 Bissing, General von, 39, 42, 72 Black Rain (GS) see II pleut, bergere . . .
Blind Path (GS) see Chemin sans issue
Bogdanowski, M. (student), 34 ‘Bohemians, The’ (artist group), 75
Bonvoisin, Joseph, 77 Bonnard, Abel, 208 Book of the Month Club, 256 Bottom of the Bottle, The (GS) see Fond de la bouteille, Le Boule .tee Liberge, Henriette Bourgmestre de Fumes, Le (The Burgomaster of Fumes; GS),
169, 276
Bouton de col (GS with H.J.
Moers; unfinished), 72 Boyer, Charles, 248-9 Brasillach, Robert, 174, 203, 234 Brassai (photographer nee Gyulia Halasz), 114 Broker, Arno, 204-5 Bresler, Fenton, 158, 163, 214; The Mystery of Georges Simon, 218n
Bretagne, Anne de, 184 British Broadcasting
Corporation: TV Maigret series, 139
Brothers Rico, The (GS) see Freres Rico, Les
Briill family: mobility, 3, in Liege, 13; Flemish-German background, 16; family torments, 19, 320; downfall,
23; alcoholism, 21—4; family home, 49; in GS’s novels, 171-2, 179; collaborators in, 244; in GS’s genealogy, 312 Brull, Berthe-Marie (GS’s cousin), 52
Brull, Eugenie (nee Dubuisson;
Leopold’s wife), 23-4 Briill, Felicie (GS’s aunt), 22,
24, 26
Brull, Gabriel, 312-13 Briill, Henri (GS’s uncle), 90 Briill, Leopold (GS’s uncle), 22-4, 26, 29
Briill, Lucien (GS’s cousin), 300 Briill, Marie (nee Loijens; GS’s grandmother), 19-21, 49 Briill, Sylvie see Wilsens-Briill, Sylvie
Briill, Wilhelm (Guillaume; GS’s grandfather), 19-20, 22, 24,
49, 263, 312-13 Buckmaster, Colonel Maurice, 258
Buffet, Bernard, 297 Burgomaster of Fumes, The (GS) see Bourgmestre de Fumes, Le
Cagnes-sur-Mer, 282 Camus, Albert, 202-3; Nobel Prize, 273; L’etranger, 221 Camus, Jean-Christophe, 64, 66, 68-9
Canada, 236; see also Montreal; Quebec
Canard Enchame, Le (magazine), 119, 134, 158
Cannes, 272-3; film festival, 278-80
‘Caque, La’ (group; earlier ‘Le Cenade’; later ‘L’Aspic’): activities, 74-9, 83, 88-9; and Kleine’s death, 94—5, 98-9; dissolution, 99; in GS’s novels, 137-8
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 248, 250
Casanova (film), 306-7 Case of Peter the Lett, The (GS) see Pietr-le-Letton Cat, The (GS) see Chat, Le Caves du Majestic, Les (Maigret and the Hotel Majestic; GS),
202, 207-8
Ce Soir (newspaper), 218, 219 Cecile est morte (Maigret and the Spinster; GS), 199, 207-8 Centre d’Etudes Simenon, 99 Ceux de la soif (GS), 163 Chamberlain, Neville, 167n Chandler, Raymond, 255-6 Chantraine, Leon (GS’s uncle), 33
Chapelle, La (village), 212
Chaplin, Charlie, 248, 281, 297 Chat, Le (The Cat; GS), 125,
127, 296, 299-302, 319 Chaumont, Dr Marcel, 262 Chemin sans issue (Blind Path;
GS), 165
Cheval blanc, Le (The White Horse Inn; GS), 276 Chez Krull (GS), 168-9, 179 Chien jaune, Le (A Face for a Clue; GS), 101, 271 cinema and films: in wartime France, 206-8 Cinq sens, Les (GS), 313 Ciset, Marie-Josephe (later Kleine), 93
Clan des Ostendais, Le (The Ostenders; GS), 236 Clouzot, Georges, 278 Cocteau, Jean, 120, 198; in wartime France, 203-5; friendship with GS, 214, 260; radio talk on sloth, 284;
L’eternel retour, 204 Colette, 112, 117, 133 colonialism, 152-3 Comeliau (Liege magistrate), 59 Comeliau, Juge (character), 132, 135
Comite d’Organisation
Cinematographique (COIC), 206
‘Comite de Publication et de la Censure de la Propagande’,
199
‘Comite National des Ecrivains’ (CNE), 203, 218 Commissariat-General aux Questions Juives, 200 Complices, Les (The Accomplices;
GS), 181, 285, 287 Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, 175
Continental Films, 206-8, 213,
218
Coomans, Charles (GS’s cousin), 90
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 221 Corheau, Le (film), 208, 218 Cornu, Berthe, 118 Corrupteurs, Les (film), 207-8 Cot, Pierre, 154 ‘Coucou, Uncle’ (Auguste Renard, Felicie Brull’s husband), 24 Coulon, Joseph, 71 Country Doctor, The (GS) see Bergelon
Coup de lune, Le (Tropic Moon;
GS), 153, 158, 174-5 Coup de vague, Le (GS), 167 Couple from Poitiers, The (GS) see Noces de Poitiers, Les Cour-Dieu, Chateau de la (near Ingrannes), 160, 164
Crime impuni (The Fugitive; GS), 253-4
crime and criminality: GS’s interest in, 100-1, 125, 128,
144
Croissant, Joseph (‘Gilles’), 90, 179
Croissant, Josephine (GS’s aunt), 90
Crommelynck, Robert: ‘Water’s Edge’ (painting), 78 Crossroad Murders, The (GS) see Nuit du carrefour, La Cuba, 239
Daladier, Edouard, 157 Danse, Hyacinthe, 50, 80-2, 100 176
Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis,
200
Darrieux, Danielle, 207 Daudet, Leon, 108 De la cave au grenier (GS), 90 Deat, Marcel, 167 Death of Monsieur Gallet, The (GS) see M. Gallet, decede Deblauwe, Ferdinand Paul Joseph: journalism, 62, 67, 77, 79-80, 82; murders rival and tried, 81, 100, 176-7; and Kleine, 95
Decoin, Henri, 207,'278 Delmas family (La Rochelle),
• 169
Delmas, Charley, 185, 187, 236 Delmas, Franck, 185 Demarteau, Joseph III: employs GS as reporter, 55-6, 58,
63-5; satirised in Au Pont des Arches, 71; obstructs Jehan Pinaguet, 71; and Nanesse, 80, 82-3; and GS’s ‘theft’ of administrative documents, 85-7; lends money for GS’s father’s funeral, 90; GS meets on 1952 visit; 263 Descaves, Lucien, 167 Desnos, Robert, 120, 203 Destin des Malou, Le (The Fate of the Malous; GS), 101-2, 119 Destinees (GS), 24 Detective (magazine), 129, 248 Dictees (GS’s memoirs), 307 Dim (interior decorator), 122 Dimanche (Sunday; GS), 162,
286, 288
Disappearance of Odile, The (GS) see Disparition d’Odile, La Disintegration of J.P.G., The (GS) see Evade, L’
Disparition d’Odile, La (The Disappearance of Odile; GS), 281, 301, 309
Dolce vita, La (film), 279-80 Door, The (GS) see Porte, La
339
Doringe, Madame (editor), 261 Doubleday (publishing house), 255
Douhard (Belgian collaborator), 67-8
Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre-Eugene, 197-8, 203, 206, 208-9, 217 Drion, Desire, 56 Durand, Dr, 292, 308
Echandens, Chateau d’ (Lausanne), 281-2, 291 Ecran Francois, L’ (underground newspaper), 208, 218, 219n Eliot, T.S., 274-5 En cas de malheur (In Case of Emergency, GS), 281, 286, 288 Engel, Howard: The Suicide Murders, 252
Epalinges (Lausanne): GS builds house at, 291-2; atmosphere, equipment and arrangements, 297-9, 304; GS leaves, 311 Epting, Karl, 204 epuration (post-war purge), 203, 212, 214-15, 217-18 Escalier defer, L’ (The Iron Staircase; GS), 253, 266 Etretat (Normandy), 177 Evade, L’ (The Disintegration of J.P.G.; GS), 175 Excelsior, L’ (journal), 157 Express, L’ (newspaper), 306
Fabre-Lebret (Cannes film festival secretary), 279 Face for a Clue, A (GS) see Chien jaune, Le
‘Fakir, the’ (drug pedlar), 76-7, 95, 98-9
Fallois, Bernard de: on Les soeurs Lacroix, 178; on GS’s leaving France in 1945, 219; on GS and eroticism, 284; friendship with GS, 288-9; and breakdown of GS’s marriage, 291-2; on Epalinges, 297; on effect of reading GS, 305; on Marie-Jo, 310; and GS’s ancestry, 313; on GS’s tragic sense, 315—16; on Teresa, 319; Simenon, 274 Family Lie, The (GS) see Malempin
Farrere, Claude, 108 Fate of the Malous, The (GS) see Destin des Malou, Le Fayard (publishing house), 129-33, 137, 151, 157-9, 170, 255
Fayard, Artheme, 131, 133 Fayard, Jean, 260 Feinstein, Pauline, 34—5, 42
Felice est 1a (Maigret and the Toy Village; GS), 258 Fellini, Federico, 279-80, 306-7, 313, 315
Fellini (Masina), Giulietta, 279 Femme rousse, La (GS), 131-2 Ferenczi, J. (publisher), 115 Fernandel, 260 Feux rouges (Red Lights; GS),
253, 265-6
FFI (French Resistance), 213-14 Fian$ailles de M. Hire, Les (Mr Hire’s Engagement; GS), 158, 173-4, 276
Figaro, Le (newspaper), 217 Figaro Litteraire, Le (journal),
198
Fillipachi, Daniel, 261 Fils, Le (The Son; GS), 89, 281 fingerprints, 60 Fischer, Dr Leon, 51 ‘Five Senses, The’ (GS;
unpublished essay), 311 Flaubert, Gustave, 174 Flemish language, 72-3 Foch, Marshal Ferdinand, 64—6 Fonck, Trooper, 37 Fond de la bouteille, Le (The Bottom of the Bottle; GS), 246 Fontenay-le-Comte, 189-93, 199-200, 287
forensic science, 60, 143-4 Forguer, Ernest, 71 Fort, Paul, 108, 208 Fou de Bergerac, Le (The Madman of Bergerac; GS), 141 Foujita, Tsugouhara (later Leonard), 113-14, 166 Four Days in a Lifetime (GS) see Quatre jours du pauvre homme, Les
Fraigneux, Louis, 86-7 France: GS’s view of, 134-5; 1940 armistice, 197; wartime book production, 199; Vichy Zone occupied, 201; wartime occupation and collaboration, 203-9; film industry, 206; liberation and epuration, 214-17
France-Soir (newspaper), 224 Freres Rico, Les (The Brothers Rico; GS), 253 Fresnay, Pierre, 218 Frou-Frou (magazine), 108 Fugitive, The (GS) see Crime impuni
Fuite de M. Monde, La (Monsieur Monde Vanishes; GS), 181,
202, 205, 210-12, 216
Gabin, Jean, 198, 260, 286n Gallimard (publishing house), 147, 158-9, 166, 173, 202, 209n, 222-3, 255, 273
Gallimard, Claude, 195 Gallimard, Gaston, 158-9,
205-6, 223, 260 Garijon, Maitre Maurice, 175, 262, 264
Gaulle, Charles de, 198, 222, 280 Gazette de Liege (newspaper): GS works on, 55-8, 60-70, 73,
85, 102; and Jews, 68-9; and German occupation, 80; and GS’s ‘theft’ of administrative documents, 86-7; and GS’s military service, 90-1; and Kleine’s death, 97-9 Geilenkirchen, Joseph, 96-7 George-Renkin, L., 52-3 Geradon, Jules de, 66-7, 79-80, 85
Germany: smuggling trade with Belgium, 87-8; GS serves in, 91; Reichstag fire, 154; in World War II, 184 Gide, Andre: praises GS, 2; correspondence with GS, 174, 195-9, 276; in World War II, 204-5; wartime ideology and activities, 197-9; renews friendship with GS after war, 216-17, 221-2; and epuration, 217; suggests French Foreign Legion for Christian, 220; eulogy of GS unpublished,
223, 252; advises GS on writing, 234; works baffle GS, 258; death, 260, 278; Nobel Prize, 273; GS’s respect for, 275-6; Retour d’URSS, 217 Gide, Catherine, 197 Gill, Brendan, 268 Ginette (GS’s boat), 125, 127,
170
Gino (chauffeur), 297 Giono, Jean, 197 Glesener, Edmond, 164 Grand Bob, Le (Big Bob; GS),
253
Grasset, Bernard, 203, 208-9 Great War, 1914-18: outbreak of, 37, 38; and occupation of Liege, 38-42, 48-9, 82, 100; Armistice, 53—5; Belgian collaborators in, 67-8 Greene, Graham: Stamboul Train, 11
Greven, Alfred, 206, 213 Grindea, Miron, 297-8 Guichard, Xavier, 143-4 Guillaume, Commissaire, 143, 176
Guitry, Sacha, 202, 203, 208,
275
Hamilton, Hamish (‘Jamie’), 255-6, 259, 270 Hammett, Dashicll, 269
Harcourt Brace (US publishing house), 229, 255 Hartmann, Obersturmfuhrer, 188
Hault, Father, 81 Haut mal, Le (The Woman of the Grey House; GS), 276 Heart of a Man, The (GS) see Volets verts, Les Heller, Obersturmfuhrer, 199 Hermant, Abel, 208 Herminie, Kaiserin (2nd wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II), 154 Herriot, Edouard, 120 Highsmith, Patricia, 249 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 64 Hitler, Adolf, 154-5, 183, 205;
Mein Kampf 203 Hollywood, 248-50 Homme qui regardait passer les trains, L’ (The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By;
GS), 125, 165
Homme comme un autre, Un (GS), 83, 160, 210, 302, 307, 318 Horloger d’Everton, L’ (The Watchmaker of Everton; GS), 253, 274
House by the Canal, The (GS) see Maison du canal, La Hugo, Victor: statue, 204 Humanite, L’ (newspaper), 156 ‘Husband who killed his wife,
A’ (short story; GS), 70
II pleut, bergere . . . (Black Rain; GS), 176
II y a encore des noisetiers (GS), 302
lie d’Aix (near La Rochelle), 124 In Case of Emergency (GS) see En cas de malheur Inconnu, L’ (GS), 131 Inconnus dans la maison, Les (The Strangers in the House; GS), 176, 179-80; film, 201, 207, 218, 278
Ingersoll, Ralph, 253 Innocents, Les (The Innocents;
GS), 305
Iron Staircase, The (GS) see Escalier de fer, L’
Inspector Maigret in New York (GS) see Maigret a New York Intimate Memoirs (GS) see Memoires Intimes
Jacob, Max, 171, 173, 203-4 Japan: surrenders, 221-2 Je me souviens (GS), 15, 18-19, 22-5, 31, 52, 192-4, 196, 199, 215, 222-3, 307, 314; genealogical falsehoods in, 194-5; see also Pedigree Je Suis Partout (magazine), 206
Je suis reste un enfant de choeur (GS), 130
Jehan Pinaguet (GS;
unpublished), 46, 71-2, 85,
162
Jews: wartime deportations of, 200, 203; barred from film work, 206; see also anti-semitism
Jour, Le (newspaper), 155, 249 Jour et nuit (GS), 88 Journal, Le (newspaper), 58 Junger, Ernst, 205, 209
Kessel, Joseph (Jef), 120, 129,
134, 198, 248 Kessel, Georges, 248 Keyserling, Graf Hermann von, 182
Keyserling, Manfred, 182, 189 ‘Kiki of Montparnasse’ see Prin, Alice
Kisling, Moi'se, 113-14, 124,
231
Kleine, Joseph Jean: in ‘La Caque’, 77, 79, 94; death, 92, 94—9, 314; life and background, 93-4; in Le pendu de St Pholien, 137-8 Kleine, Leonard, 93 Klement, Rudolph, 155-7 Koenig, Leon: L’histoire de la peinture au pays de Liege, 75 Korda, (Sir) Alexander, 261 Korean War, 252 Krantz, Herr (i.e. Creutz), 18
Lacassaigne, Professor, 60 Lacassin, Francis, 145 Lafnet, Luc: illustrates GS’s first novel, 70; in ‘La Caque’,
74-6, 78-9; GS mocks, 88; leaves for Paris, 99; with GS in Paris, 108-9, 114; death,
115; ‘The Haunted Castle’ (painting), 78 Lakeville, Connecticut see Shadow Rock Farm Lambert, Jef, 70 La Rochelle: Simenons at, 124, 150-1, 168-9, 184, 287;
Belgian refugees at, 186-8; bombed, 188; GS novels set in, 236; see also Richardiere,
La
Laughton, Charles, 249 Lausanne, 1, 280-1, 311; see also Echandens, Chateau d’; Epalinges
La Varende, Jean de, 208-9 Lazareff, Pierre, 69, 120, 223,
236, 260 Lebeau,Jean, 94
‘Legion des Combattants’, 197-8
Lemestre, Marthe (‘Martoune’), 114
Lemoine, Michel: Liege dans Voeuvre de Simenon, 99
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 35
Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 264
Leroux, Gaston: ‘Rouletabille’ stories, 55-6
Lettre a ma mere (Letter To My Mother, GS), 24, 170-1, 302, 307-8, 313, 315, 318
Lettre a mon juge (Act of Passion; GS), 230, 237-8, 243-4, 246, 257
Lettres Francoises, Les
(underground magazine), 213, 218, 219n
Liberation (newspaper), 223
Liberge, Henri, 118, 122
Liberge, Henriette (‘Boule’): becomes Simenons’ maid,
118, 122, 124; on boating trips, 125-6, 129; as GS’s lover, 127, 184, 210, 215, 268, 317; at La Richardiere, 149,
151, 154; fillets GS’s sardines, 150; at La Cour-Dieu, 164; GS’s jealousy of, 165; leaves Porquerolles at outbreak of war, 183; domestic duties, 184—5, 190; aids Belgian refugees, 187; and GS’s heart condition, 193; Tigy discovers with GS, 210; and wartime Resistance, 213; 1945 visit to Paris, 219; Tigy bans from accompanying Simenons to USA, 223-4, 234; Tigy accepts, 240; in USA, 240-2; and Denyse’s pregnancy, 247; in Connecticut, 253, 267; and GS’s divorce from Tigy, 268; in Lausanne, 282; dismissed, 299, 317; Henriette questions, 299; lives with Marc, 299,
316; visits GS, 316; correspondence with GS, 317; ‘Le vieux navire' (short story), 318
Liege: GS’s birth and
upbringing in, 9-11, 17, 32-4; described, 11—15; Simenon family in, 14-15; students in, 34—6; Great War occupation, 38-42, 48-9, 68, 82, 100; GS attends university lectures, 59-60, 144; wartime collaborators tried, 67-8; artist groups, 75; GS ‘steals’ documents in, 86-7; in GS’s novels, 135, 137-8; 1918 purge, 213; GS visits after return from USA, 261-3, 300; names street for GS, 300
341
Ligue des Chefs de Sections et des Anciens Combattants, 108, 110
Limbourg, The (Belgium), 13-14, 49, 312 ‘Liste, Otto’, 199 Little Saint, The (GS) see Petit saint, Le
Locard, Dr Edmond, 60, 144 Locataire, Le (The Lodger, GS), 175
London, 224-5, 291 Lorca, Federico Garcia, 198 Loustic (dog), 168 Lucas, Commissaire (character), 131n
Luchaire, Jean, 208
M. Gallet, decede (The Death of Monsieur Gallet ; GS), 134, 137 M. La Souris (GS), 166 McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 269 MacOrlan, Pierre, 120, 208 Madeleine (Breton Maid), 124 Madman of Bergerac, The (GS) see Fou de Bergerac, Le Magician, The (GS) see Antoine et Julie
Maigret (Maigret Returns; GS), 138, 147
Maigret d New York (Inspector Maigret in New York’s Underworld ; GS), 235 Maigret and Monsieur Charles (GS) see Maigret et M. Charles Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (GS) see Caves du Majestic, Les Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets (GS) see Pendu de St Pholien,
Le
Maigret and the Millionaires (GS) see Maigret voyage Maigret and the Minister (GS) see Maigret chez le ministre Maigret and the Nahour Case (GS) see Maigret et Vaffaire Nahour Maigret and the Spinster (GS) see Cecile est morte
Maigret and the Toy Village (GS) see Felice est la
Maigret chez le ministre (Maigret and the Minister ; GS), 253 Maigret et Vaffaire Nahour
(Maigret and the Nahour Case; GS), 298
Maigret et M. Charles (Maigret and Monsieur Charles; GS), 305 Maigret et son mort ( Maigret’s Special Murder; GS), 244, 257 Maigret Returns (GS) see Maigret Maigret voyage (Maigret and the Millionaires; GS), 256, 281 Maigret’s Memoirs (GS) see Memoires de Maigret, Les
Maigret’s Revolver (GS) see Revolver de Maigret, Le Maigret’s Special Murder (GS) see Maigret et son mort Maigret, Commissaire Arnold, 86, 142, 143n
Maigret, Jules Amedee Francois (character): created, 4, 107, 130-2; domestic contentment, 32; fails to attend university, 60; and hanged men, 78; original models for, 86,
142-6; and idea of right and wrong, 100-1, 136, 144—5; early appearances, 129, 131-2, 135-9; series launched (bal anthropometrique) , 133—4, 151; and French life, 134—5; style and methods, 136-7; drinking, 138-40; BBC TV series, 139; food and eating, 140-1; vocabulary of books, 141; GS identified with,
145-6, 148-9; success, 146-7, 151; films, 151, 249; GS resumes writing novels of, 199; and jealousy theme, 242-3; published in USA and England, 255; respect for Madame la Contesse, 275-6 Maigret, Madame (character), 135-6, 138, 140-1 Main dans la Main, La (GS), 64 Maison de I’lnquietude, La (GS), 132
Maison des septjeunes files, La (film), 200
Maison du canal, La (The House by the Canal; GS), 158, 171-2, 322
Malempin (The Family Lie; GS), 183
Malet, Leo, 157 Malraux, Andre, 197 Man From Everywhere, The (GS) see Relais d’Alsace, Les Man on the Eiffel Tower, The (film; based on GS’s La tete d’un homme), 249 Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, The (GS) see Homme qui regardait passer les trains, L’ Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, The (film), 249 Manaerts, Alphonse, 144 Marianne (journal), 157 Marie-Germaine, Mother Superior, 301
Martin du Gard, Roger, 221 Matin, Le (newspaper), 111, 117 Maugham, William Somerset, 275
Mauriac, Claude: L’alitterature contemporaine, 274 Mauriac, Francois, 173-4, 197,
217, 273
Maurois, Andre, 264 Medecine et Hygiene (magazine), 304
Memoires de Maigret, Les (Maigret’s Memoirs; GS), 253 Memoires intimes (Intimate Memoirs; GS): on relations with mother, 32; on adolescence, 48; on Tigy, 83; on Josephine Baker, 123; on coming war, 167, 169; on helping Belgian refugees, 186; on wartime life, 192, 214; on negotiating film and radio rights, 207; on Denyse,
230-1, 235, 283; on sexual behaviour, 239, 314; on divorce from Tigy, 246; on reunion with mother, 262; on Cannes striptease, 278; on Teresa Sburelin, 282; on relations with Marie-Jo, 308-10; 314; success and effect of,314; on Boule’s dismissal, 317; writing of, 321 Mercier, Madame (hotel keeper), 175
Merle, Eugene, 119-21, 123,
125, 314
Merle Blanc, Le (magazine), 119 Merle Rose, Le (magazine), 123 Meuse, La (newspaper), 57 Michaux, Henri, 197 Mignon, Joseph, 144 Miller, Henry, 234, 257, 272, 275, 279, 296 Mirmont, Roger, 310 Mr Hire’s Engagement (GS) see Fian(ailles de M. Hire, Les Modigliani, Amedeo, 113 Moers, H.J. (Henri), 72, 74, 77 Mondadori, Arnaldo, 282 Monsieur Monde Vanishes (GS) see Fuite de M. Monde, La Montreal, 230
Moors, Guillaume, ‘Vieux-Papa’ (GS’s great grandfather), 17-18, 32, 144, 320 Moors, Marie Catherine see Simenon, Marie Catherine Moors, Marie Louise (nee Leblanc; GS’s great grandmother), 14 ‘Mornard, Jacques’ (‘Raimond Mercador’), 157
Mort d’Auguste, La (The Old Man Dies; GS), 298, 301-2, 321 Mort de Belle, La (Belle; GS),
253, 257
Mortimer, Raymond, 221 Mougins: La Gatouniere (house), 272-3
Munich agreement, 1938, 167, 169
Murderer, The (GS) see Assassin, V
Mystery of the ‘Polarlys’, The (GS) see Passage du ‘Polarlys’, Le
Mystery Writers of America, 256
‘Naissance de Maigret, La’ (GS), 130
Nanesse (journal), 47, 79-82, 85, 87
Narcejac, Thomas: Le cas Simenon, 273-4, 276 Nazis and Nazism, 154, 182 Neige etait sale, La (The Stain on the Snow; GS), 47, 244-6, 255 Neuilly, 164—6 Neujean, Oscar, 144 New York, 229-30, 252 New Yorker (magazine), 268-9 Nielsen, Sven, 222-3, 260, 273 Nieul-sur-Mer (near La Rochelle), 168-9, 187-9, 315 Night Club, The (GS) see Ane-Rouge, L’
Nobel Prize for Literature: GS aspires to, 148, 166n, 222—3, 273-4; Gide awarded, 273 Noces de Poitiers, Les (The Couple from Poitiers ; GS), 110 ‘Nolepitois, Les’ (short story; GS), 254
Noss’ Perron (periodical), 72-3,
85
Nouveau dans la ville, Un (GS), 242
Nouvelle Revue Fran(aise (NRF), 197-8, 205, 217 Nova Film (company), 208 Nuit du carrefour, La (The Crossroad Murders; GS), 139, 144; film, 151n, 248
O’Brien, ‘Colonel’Justin, 226 Odette (secretary), 218-19 Oeuvre, L' (magazine), 132 Olaf (Great Dane dog), 119,
125, 129
Old Man Dies, The (GS) see Mort d’Auguste, La
Omre, Arthur: Traque, 222 On dit que j’ai soixante-quinze ans (GS), 71
‘Oscar’ (GS; unfinished), 305 Ostenders, The (GS) see Clan des Ostendais, Le Oradour-sur-Glane, 203 Ostrogoth (boat), 128, 130-2,
137, 148-9, 170
Others, The (GS) see Autres, Les Ouimet, Mrs (Denyse’s mother), 269-70
Pagnol, Marcel, 166, 206, 214, 260-1, 264, 297 Panique (film), 218 Paquis, Jean-Herold, 208 Pardon, Dr and Francine (characters), 140 Paris: GS moves to, 84, 102—3, 107-8; Tigy in, 109; GS’s life and circle in, 123-4, 127; GS explores, 124—5; GS and Tigy leave, 134; GS stays in during 1945, 219
Paris-Flirt (magazine), 108 Paris-Matinal (newspaper), 120-1 Paris-Soir (newspaper), 117, 120, 155-7, 303
Passage de la ligne, Le (GS), 161, 281
Passage du ‘Polarlys’, Le (The Mystery of the ‘Polarlys’; GS), 158
Patient, The (GS) see Anneaux de Bicetre, Les Pautrier, Lucien, 183 Pedigree (GS); on mother, 12; on saving brother, 31; on schoolgirl romance, 44; attacks Van Bambeke, 47; on 1918 Armistice excesses, 53; writing of, 196, 199, 202, 215; on 1918 purges, 213; Gide and, 216-17; published as Je me souviens, 222-3; libel actions over, 262; and Henriette, 300; inaccuracies, 307; see also Je me souviens Peeters family, 49-50 Peeters, Alfred, 49 Pellepoix, Louis Darquier de see Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis
Pendu de St Pholien, Le (Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets; GS), 74, 78, 134, 137-8, 143, 176 Penguin Books, 255 Pere Ubu (magazine), 148 Perse, St John (i.e. M.A.R.A.
Saint-Leger Leger), 273 Petain, Marshal Philippe, 191, 197
Petiot, Dr Marcel, 209 Petit Parisien, Le (newspaper), 161, 208
Petit saint, Le (The Little Saint;
GS), 162, 296, 302 ‘Peuples qui ontfaim’ (articles; GS), 155
Pharmacie Germain (Liege), 71 Picasso, Pablo, 113, 166, 205 Pieteur, Andree ( later Bonvoisin), 77
Pietr-le-Letton (The Case of Peter the Lett; GS), 131-2, 135-7, 143, 148
Pilar (Spanish nursemaid), 161
Pipe de Maigret, La (GS), 223 Pirard, Commissaire-Adjoint, 98-9
Pivot, Bernard, 163 Plaisir (magazine), 108 Plumier, Georges, 110 Poincare, Raymond, 91 Poisoned Relations (GS) see Soeurs Lacroix, Les Poland, 64-5, 183 Porquerolles (island), 119, 160, 165-8, 183, 316-17 Porte, La (The Door, GS), 181, 287-9, 302
Powys, John Cowper, 257-8 Prentice (US publishing house), 255
President, Le (The President; GS), 281
Presses de la Cite, Les, 223 Prin, Alice (‘Kiki of Montparnasse’), 113-14 Prix de la Nouvelle France, 208-9, 218
Prix Goncourt, 208-9 prostitutes and brothels: GS’s interest in, 50, 62, 82-3, 125, 235, 239, 259, 278, 290 ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, 68
Quai des Brumes (film), 198 Quandj’etais vieux (When I Was Old; GS), 142, 144, 222, 257, 280, 307, 319 45° a I’ombre (Aboard the Aquitaine; GS), 175 Quartier negre (GS), 176 Quatre jours du pauvre homme, Les (Four Days in a Lifetime; GS), 246, 257
Quebec, 224, 230
Rabelais, Francois, 71 Radio-Paris, 208 Raimu (actor), 201, 250, 278 Rains, Claude, 249 ‘Rapins, Les’ (artist group), 75, 94
Ray, Man, 113 Raymond, John, 300-1 Rebatet, Lucien, 205; Les decombres, 206
Red Lights (GS) see Feux rouges Reich, Das (German SS division), 203, 212 Relais d’Alsace, Le (The Man From Everywhere; GS), 158 Remy, Georges, 69 Renchon, Pere, 47 Renchon, Jules (GS’s father-inlaw), 85
Renchon, ‘Tita’ (Tigy’s sister), 178n, 247
343
‘Renee’ (GS’s childhood sweetheart), 44-6 Renkin, L. George- see George-Renkin, L.
Reno, 250-1
Renoir, Jean, 105, 124, 151n, 248-9, 297 Renus, Pere, 62 Resnick, Lola, 35 Revolver de Maigret, Le ( Maigret’s Revolver, GS), 253 Revue Sincere (magazine), 102, 108, 110
Rex movement (Belgium), 220, 244-5
Ric et Rac (feuilleton), 132 Richardiere, La (house, near La Rochelle), 149-50, 153-4, 159-60, 165
Richardson, Maurice, 218n Ridicules, Les (pamphlet; GS),
85, 88-9
Robert, Paul: Dictionnaire des synonymes, 141
Roman d’une dactylo (GS), 115, 117
Romancier, Le (GS), 84 Rothschild, Baron de, 166 Routledge, George & Sons (publishing house), 224 Routledge & Kegan Paul (publishing house), 255 RTF (French radio station), 284 Rutten, Mathieu, 19, 24, 49, 99, 311; Simenon: ses origines, sa vie, son oeuvre, 311-13
Sables d’Olonne, Les, 215-17, 222, 242
Saft, M. (Liege student), 34 St Andrew’s (Canada), 236 Saint-Exupery, Antoine de, 198 St Fargeau-sur-Seine, 223 Ste Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson (Canada), 230
St Mesmin-le-Vieux (Vendee), 189, 199, 201, 210, 212 Salmon Creek, Connecticut, 253 ‘Sans Haine’ (pacifist organisation), 167 Sarraut, Albert, 114 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 197; Nobel Prize, 273; Huis clos, 203 Sburelin, Teresa: and GS’s death, 1; liaison with GS, 282-3, 302-3, 308-9, 319-21; in London, 291; Boule sees in Lausanne, 317
Scarrachbergheim, Chateau de, 183
Schiller, Hotel (Liege), 67 Schrooten, Jean-Mathieu, 22,
43, 90
Schrooten, Louisa (nee Brull; GS’s aunt), 22, 43, 56, 90
Schroyen, Mathieu, 12 Shadow Falls, The (GS) see Testament Donadieu, Le Shadow Rock Farm, Lakeville, Connecticut, 253-4, 256, 259, 267-8, 270-2
Signe Picpus (To Any Lengths', GS), 202, 207
Signet (publishing house), 255 Silberberg, Blima (‘Blinis’), 282 Simenon, Arthur (GS’s uncle), 15, 17, 37
Simenon, Blanche (nee Binet;
Christian’s wife), 151-2, 244 Simenon, Chretien (formerly Christiaan; GS’s grandfather): marriage, 14—15; Liege business, 16; religious observance, 27; bathing with GS, 32; as model for Maigret, 144; death, 170; bom, 194; Flemish-speaking, 312-13; outlives Desire, 320 Simenon, Christian (GS’s brother): relations with GS, 30-1; educational achievements, 31; death, 31,
217n, 243-5, 250, 320; GS saves from drowning, 36; in Africa, 151-3, 170; meets GS in Paris (1945), 220; political views, 220, 244; joins Foreign Legion, 220-1, 244; in GS’s La neige etait sale, 244-5 Simenon, Denyse (nee Ouimet; GS’s second wife; ‘Denise’): on Henriette’s French, 25; on GS as ‘criminal’, 145; describes and described by GS, 229, 233; meets and impresses GS, 229-33; character and style, 231-3; relations with GS, 233-5, 240-2; in Trois chambres a Manhattan, 233-4; reorganises GS’s filing system, 235; violence with GS, 235, 293-4; GS changes name to Denise, 235; in Cuba, 239; visits brothels with GS, 239-40; and GS’s promiscuity, 240; and Tigy, 242, 246-7; pregnancy and birth of son, 242, 246-8; and GS’s divorce from Tigy, 248; marriage to GS, 250; film producer buys mink coat for, 254; at Shadow Rock Farm, 256; as literary agent, 256; on 1952 trip to Europe, 259-61, 264; and Henriette, 263, 265, 315; pregnancy and birth of Marie-Jo, 267-8; behaviour changes, 269—70, 283, 304; moves to Europe, 270, 273; miscarriage, 273; learns from
Maugham, 275; marriage breakdown, 280-1, 283, 290-4, 296-8;
Cagnes-sur-Mer house, 282; GS’s hatred for, 283, 292, 319-20; psychiatric treatment, 285, 291-2; and de Fallois,
289; third child (Pierre), 290; in London with GS, 291; on GS’s writing mechanism, 305; GS attacks, 307, 318; and death of Marie-Jo, 310, 314, 318-19; on quarrels with GS, 310; in GS’s Memoires intimes, 315, 317; blamed for dismissal of Boule, 317; GS refuses divorce to, 318; practises as psychoanalyst, 318; letters from GS, 319; in GS’s will, 321; Un Oiseau pour le Chat, 284, 310, 318; Le Phallus d’Or, 283, 319
Simenon, Desire (GS’s father); marriage, 3-4, 16, 21; and GS’s birth, 10; life in Liege, 16-18; character, 19, 26; relations with wife, 26, 29, 35-6; refused life insurance,
26, 29; relations with GS, 26, 51, 62, 89; profession and career, 26-7; church duties,
28; in garde civique, 28-9; GS’s attitude to, 29-30; death and funeral, 29, 89-90, 320; and student lodgers, 35-6; and outbreak of Great War, 37,
38; and German billeted soldiers, 40, 43; wartime behaviour, 41, 102; and GS’s schooling, 46; and GS’s misbehaviour, 50; heart condition, 51-3; and GS’s departure for Paris, 102-3; as model for Maigret, 144; death imagined in L’Ane-Rouge, 171
Simenon, Francette (Marc’s first wife), 316
Simenon, Fran^oise (GS’s aunt), 28
Simenon, Georges Joseph: death and tributes, 1-3, 320; output and sales, 2, 116, 123, 127, 129, 146-7, 149, 163, 165-6, 199, 202, 302; career and life summarised, 2-4; secrecy and seclusion, 4-5; born, 10; Liege upbringing, 11-13, 17; relations with parents, 25-6,
29- 32, 48, 51, 62; childhood dress, 27; childhood religious interests, 27-8, 33-4, 46; attitude to brother Christian,
30- 1; schooling, 31-2, 36, 43-7, 51; sleepwalking, 32,
344
180, 305, 320; and Liege student lodgers, 34—6; saves brother from drowning, 36; effect of Great War on, 38; in occupied Liege, 42-3; ability in French, 44, 46; reading, 44; sexual initiation and first sweetheart, 44—6; abandons idea of priesthood, 45-6; truancy and petty crimes, 47-8, 50; early drinking, 49, 61-3; patronises prostitutes and brothels, 50, 62, 82-3,
125, 235, 239, 259, 278, 290; leaves school, 51-3; as reporter on Gazette de Liege, 55-70, 73, 102; attends university lectures on forensics, 59-60, 144; earnings, 61, 110; social activities, 61-2; insults Demarteau, 63; anti-semitic article, 68-9; early short stories and romances (contes galants), 70, 108-11, 114-15, 117, 125; first novels, 70-1; supports Flemish language, 72-3; in ‘La Caque’, 74—9; appearance, 77, 111, 268; contributes to Nanesse, 79-82; meets and courts Tigy, 83—5; moves to Paris, 84, 102-3, 107-8; removes Liege administrative documents, 86-7, 100; and father’s death and funerals, 89; military service, 90-1, 99, 102; granted majority, 90; and Kleine’s death, 98-9; and criminal world and values, 99-100,
125, 128, 145; moral ambivalence, 100-1; marriage to Tigy, 102, 108-9; pseudonyms, 110; works for de Tracy, 111-12, 117, 163; home and life in Paris, 112, 115-16, 121, 123-5, 127; writing speed, 114, 142, 146; royalties and contracts,
114— 15, 116-17; short novels,
115- 16; parallels with Balzac,
116, 277-8; writing methods,
117, 142, 177, 234, 241-2; Normandy holiday, 117-18; in glass-cage publicity stunt, 120-1; love affair with Josephine Baker, 122-5; boating, 125-9; takes Boule as lover, 127, 184, 210, 215, 268; detection stories and creation of Maigret character, 129-34; publishes under own name, 131—4; leaves Paris, 134; vocabulary and style, 141-2; witnesses police methods and