Rock Farm, 253, 256, 259; reference material, 253—4; life in USA, 254-5; retains paperback rights, 255; changes publishers and renegotiates contracts, 255-6, 273; honours and appointments, 256, 261, 264; lectures at Yale and Harvard, 256; praised by other writers, 256-9; 1952 visit to Britain and Europe, 259-64; revisits mother,
261-2; loses libel action, 262; relations with daughter Marie-Jo, 267, 308-10; leaves USA, 270-2; critical acclaim, 274-7; as president of Cannes film festival, 278-80; breakdown of marriage with Denyse, 280-1, 283, 290-4, 296-8; settles in Lausanne, 280-1; servants, 282-3; relations with Teresa Sburelin, 282-3, 302-3,
308-10, 319-21; hatred for Denyse, 283, 293, 319-20; radio talk on lust, 284; writer’s block, 290; relations with children, 291, 298-9; in London for ‘pipe-man of the year’, 291; need for love, 293-4; revises earnings agreements, 295n; relations with mother, 299-302, 315; and mother’s death, 301-2; breaks ribs, 302; interviews, 303-6; finishes writing, 305-6; claims to have had 10,000 women, 307, 315, 318; and death of Marie-Jo, 309-10,
314, 320; sense of rejection, 315; beliefs in old age, 320; decline and death, 320; will, 321
Simenon, Georget (GS’s nephew), 151-2
Simenon, Guillaume (GS’s uncle), 15, 27
Simenon, Henriette (nee Brail; GS’s mother): background, 3, 20-1; and birth of GS, 10; in Liege, 12, 17; marriage, 16,
21; character, 19, 25-7; born, 20; and deaths of Leopold and wife, 23; knowledge of Flemish, 24-5; GS observes and describes, 25-7; and husband’s lack of life insurance, 26, 29; piety, 27,
33; relations with GS, 30-2, 48, 51, 110, 171, 299-302,
315; student lodgers, 34—5; billets German soldiers during Great War, 40, 43; food smuggling, 40-1; and GS’s