345
schooling, 45; and GS’s early jobs, 51-2; and Nanesse, 79; and GS’s leaving home, 102; and GS’s marriage to Tigy, 109; allowance from GS, 110; remarries (Joseph Andre),
129, 170-1, 296; and GS’s African articles, 153; and GS’s novels, 171; and accusations of GS’s Jewishness, 200; and GS’s departure for USA, 220-1; and GS’s 1952 European visit with Denyse, 261—3; relations with Denyse, 263, 315; in USA, 264-5; fear of poverty, 294; GS visits on deathbed, 295, 301; in Le chat, 296, 299-300; visits GS at Epalinges, 299-300; TV interview and celebrity,
300-1; and GS’s ancestry, 313; outlives Christian, 320
Simenon, John (GS’s son): on GS’s sexual vigour, 162; bom, 248, 252; and Boule, 267; moves to Europe, 272-3; on GS’s contempt for honours, 274; on parents’ disagreements, 280, 308; in Lausanne, 281; relations with GS, 291, 298; on GS’s claim to 10,000 women, 307; and GS’s routine, 316; in GS’s will, 321; on GS’s unhappiness, 321
Simenon, Lambert (Chretien’s father), 194
Simenon, Lambert (father of above), 194
Simenon, Lucien (GS’s uncle),
15
Simenon, Marc (GS’s son): born, 183; wartime homes and activities, 188-9, 191-2, 199-200; GS writes Je me souviens for, 194-6; and GS’s discovery by Tigy, 210; relations with father, 210,
217, 242, 268; in Paris (1945), 219-20; sees VJ parade, 222; accompanies GS to USA, 224—5; in London, 224—5; in Canada, 230, 236; fondness for Boule, 240; and parents’ relationship, 241; and parents’ divorce, 247-8; US schooling, 250, 267-8, 272; in Connecticut, 253, 267; moves to Europe, 272-3; takes baccalaureat, 281; leaves home, 290; marriage and child, 291; Boule lives with, 299; protects Marie-Jo, 309; asks for grandmother’s address after death, 316; on Simenon and
Teresa, 320; on GS’s interests in old age, 320; in GS’s will, 321
Simenon, Marie-Anne Celine (GS’s aunt), 16
Simenon, Marie Catherine (nee Moors; GS’s grandmother): character, 3; on GS at birth,
10; marriage, 14-15; children and grandchildren, 15-16, 21; death, 17; and father, 18, 320; distrusts Henriette, 24; domesticity, 32 Simenon, Marie-Georges (‘Marie-Jo’; GS’s daughter): bom, 254, 264-5, 267; relations with GS, 267, 291, 308-11, 314; moves to Europe, 272-3; in Switzerland, 281, 299; and GS’s violence to Denyse, 293; illness, 301; and parents’ quarrels, 308-9; suicide, 308-11, 314, 318, 320; and GS’s Memoires intimes, 314 Simenon, Marie-Jean Louise (Sister Marie Madeleine; GS’s aunt), 15, 28, 36, 301 Simenon, Marie-Jo (GS’s daughter) see Simenon, Marie-Georges
Simenon, Marie-Josephine (GS’s aunt), 16
Simenon, Marie-Josephine Celine (GS’s aunt), 16 Simenon, Mylene ( nee
Demongeot (GS’s daughterin-law), 316
Simenon, Pierre (GS’s son), 290, 291, 298, 300, 321 Simenon, Regine ( nee Renchon; SG’s first wife; ‘Tigy’): GS meets and courts, 83-5; and death of GS’s father, 89; and Kleine, 94; marriage, 102, 108-9; and GS’s absence in Paris, 108; in Paris, 109, 112, 115, 124; painting, 109-10, 112-13, 115, 118-19, 129,
150; and GS’s work for de Tracy, 111; and Boule, 118; at place des Vosges (Paris), 122, 127; boating, 125-6, 128-9, 132; leaves Paris, 134; occupies La Richardiere, 149-50; relations with GS,
150, 160, 163, 210; in Africa,
151, 153; trip across Europe, 154-5; moves to Cour Dieu, 160; and GS’s sexual life, 163; world tour, 163—4; in Neuilly, 165; and GS’s move from Neuilly, 167-8; pregnancy and birth of Marc, 168, 183; at outbreak of war, 183-6;
wartime moves, 188-9, 199; and Marc’s childhood, 191; and GS’s heart condition, 193; and GS’s infidelity with Boule, 210; and wartime Resistance, 213-14; and liberation, 215; in Paris (1945), 219-20; hostility to Boule, 223; travels to America with GS, 223-5; in London, 225; in Canada, 230; and GS’s relations with Denyse, 233-6, 238, 241; travels in USA, 236; marriage breakdown and divorce, 237, 246-8, 251; accepts presence of Boule,
240; and Boule in USA,
240-2; on life in USA, 246; in Connecticut, 253, 268; returns to Europe, 272-3, 318; remains unmarried, 316; death, 316
Simenon, Monsignor Willem,
28, 312
Simon, Claude, 273-4 Simon, Michel, 218, 260 Soeurs Lacroix, Les (Poisoned Relations', GS), 166, 178 Son, The (GS) see Fils, Le Spaak, Charles, 208 Sphinx, Le (Paris brothel), 114 Spinelly, ‘la Mome Crevette’, 125, 200
Stain on the Snow, The (GS) see Neige etait sale, La Stavisky affair, 1934, 157 Stavitska'ia, Frida, 34—5, 42 Steinbeck, John, 250 Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 174
Stephane, Roger, 40, 67, 133, 145, 303
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 250 Stockiste, Dr (police surgeon), 60
Strangers in the House, The (GS) see lnconnus dans la maison, Les Strip-tease (Striptease ; GS), 278, 285-6, 288
Sudetenland, 167, 169 Summer Holiday, A (GS) see Vacances de Maigret, Les Sunday (GS) see Dimanche Switzerland, 280-1; see also Lausanne
Symons, Julian, 291
Tahiti, 164
Tallandier (publishing house), 131
Tardivon, Pierre, 111 Tejada y Galban, Carlos de, 81, 176
Terreneuve, Chateau de
(Fontenay-le-Comte), 189-90,
200
Testament Donadieu, Le (The Shadow Falls; GS), 165-6, 183, 276
Tete d’un homme, La (A Battle of Nerves-, GS), 145-6, 151n; film (The Man on the Eiffel Tower), 249
Thioux, Nicolas, 44 Three Beds in Manhattan (GS) see Trois chambres a Manhattan Thurber, James, 256 Ticket of Leave (GS) see Veuve Couderc, La
Tigy see Simenon, Regine Tissier, Jean, 200 To Any Lengths (GS) see Signe Picpus
Torrence, Inspector (character), 131-2
Touriste de bananes (Banana tourist-, GS), 166, 176 Tourneur, Maurice, 207-8 Tracy, Jacques, Marquis de, 110-12, 117, 163 Train de tiuit (GS), 131—2, 144, 170
Train de Venise, Le (The Venice Train; GS), 281
Trial of Bebe Donge, The (GS) see Verite sur Bebe Donge, La Trois chambres a Manhattan (Three Beds in Manhattan; GS), 230-1, 233, 237-8; proposed film,
249
Trois crimes de mes amis, Les (GS), 30, 42, 54, 63, 77, 82,
90, 166, 176
Tropic Moon (GS) see Coup de lune, Le
Trotsky, Leon, 35, 155-6;
assassinated, 157 Troy at, Henri, 208
United States of America: GS travels to, 184, 220-6; GS travels across, 236; GS’s life in, 237, 240-1, 248-50, 266; GS acquires permanent personal visa, 238-9; Boule in, 240-1; Tigy on life in, 246; life and values in, 254—5; GS leaves, 270-1
Universal Exhibition, Liege, 1905, 175
Vacances de Maigret, Les (A Summer Holiday; GS), 138, 242-3, 246
‘Valentine’ (correspondent), 258-9, 261 Vallat, Xavier, 200 Van Bambeke, Pere, 47, 52 Van Ham, Joseph, 31n, 44 Vanherft, Ida (Chretien
Simenon’s grandmother), 194 Vautel, Clement, 58 Vedette (magazine), 201 Vendee, La, 124, 212, 214 Venice Train, The (GS) see Train de Venise, Le
‘Vercors’ (i.e. Jean Marcel Bruller), 202
Verite sur Bebe Donge, La (The Trial of Bebe Donge; GS), 202
‘Verts-Boucs, Les’ (The Green Rams; gang), 312 Veuve Couderc, La (Ticket of Leave; GS), 202, 221, 319 ‘Victor’ (GS; unfinished), 305; see also ‘Oscar’
Vieljeux family (La Rochelle),
169
Vieljeux, Pierre, 169 Vise (Belgium), 39 Vlaminck, Edwige, 183 Vlaminck, Maurice de, 124, 150, 166, 177, 183, 205; blacklisted at liberation, 217-18 Vlijtingen (Belgium), 14 Voila! (magazine), 152, 154 Volets verts, Les (The Heart of a Man; GS), 162, 250, 253, 257 Vouvant, forest of, 188-9 Vriendts, Joseph, 36, 44, 80
Wallonie Socialiste, La (newspaper), 66 Watchmaker of Everton, The (GS) see Horloger d’Everton, L’
When I Was Old (GS) see Quand j’etais vieux
White Horse Inn, The (GS) see Cheval blanc, Le Wilder, Thornton, 256, 265-6 Wilsens-Briill, Sylvie (GS’s cousin), 20, 24—5, 52 Woman of the Grey House, The (GS) see Haut mal, Le World War II: threat of, 167; outbreak, 182-4; GS moves house in, 188; ignored in GS’s novels, 199; see also epuration