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MAIGEN - The Maigret Encyclopedia Intro   A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B BA  BE  BI  BL  BO  BR  BU   Babeau, Albert. But Albert Babeau, the Musician, the one they call Midget because he wore platform shoes, escaped. He was arrested at Le Havre about a week later on an anonymous tip. [1942-FEL] Babert. Torrence leafed through a directory looking for Ballu: Batin, Babert, Bailly, Ballu. 75 Quai Voltaire, just across the way. [1945-FAC] Babette. The maid at Émile Grosbois', Babette, about 40, was Oscar Grosbois' girlfriend. [1942-MEN] Babette, La. see: La Babette Baboeuf. Henri Trochu said the Baboeuf boy had tried to sleep with Rose Trochu when she was 17, but he'd got even with him for that. [1949-DAM] Jules said Baboeuf had dealt the card, auction manille. [1969-TUE] Baboeuf, Germaine. The dairy woman had told him the maid's name was Germaine Baboeuf.... There were two chambermaids, Germaine Baboeuf and Marie, at the Gendreau-Balthazar's. [1948-PRE] Baby Cadum. see: Cadum, Baby Bachelier, Georges. One of the principals at Geber et Bachelier, answered the phone when M called. Monique Thouret worked at Geber et Bachelier, Solicitors office in the Rue de Rivoli. [1952-BAN] backgammon. M went to the Brasserie des Suisses and watch a game of backgammon at the next table. [1937-38-MAN] M went to the Commerce to play backgammon with the new butcher. [1938-CEU] Bacon Hôtel. see: Hôtel Bacon Bac, Rue du. Lapointe had gone to the Rue du Bac to tell his sister Germaine Lapointe about his investigation at the Rue de Turenne. [1949-MME] The interview with Martine Chapuis was in their flat in the Rue du Bac, around the corner from the Rue des Saints-Pères. [1956-AMU] Ramuel, the lawyer who'd defended the butcher in the Rue Caulaincourt, lived in the Rue du Bac. [1962-COL] Badel. Basel was Adrien Jossets' doctor, also a friend. Adrien started to call him when he found the body, changed his mind. [1959-CON] Baden-Baden. For a long time Isabelle de V--'s letters in August were from Baden-Baden or Marienbad, the aristocratic spas of the time. [1960-VIE] Badet. Mme M heard a rumor that Mme. Keller had been the lover of Badet, the Chief Commissioner, after her husband left her. [1962-CLO] badge. M's badge had the number 0004. Number 1 was the Prefect, 2 the Director General of the Police Department, and 3 for the Head of the Special Branch. Silver-plated copper, on one side the Republic's Marianne with her Phrygian cap, the letters "FF" and the word "Police" outlined in red enamel. On the reverse were the arms of Paris, a serial number, and, engraved in small lettering, the holder's name. [1966-VOL] Baes. The man who owned the sailor's cap was Oosting, called the Baes, the boss, who lived on Workum island. [1931-HOL] Baffoin, Eugénie. Eugénie Baffoin, the concierge at 67 bis Rue Caulaincourt, where Mlle. Jeanne, the fortuneteller, had been murdered. [1941-SIG] Bagatelle. A young policeman from Neuilly police station, Emile Lebraz, in uniform only a few months, was on duty on Boulevard Richard-Wallace, on the edge of Bois de Boulogne, almost opposite the Bagatelle. [1952-REV] Bagatelle, Porte de. M had had a paragraph inserted into the newspapers, saying that a park-keeper in the Bois de Boulogne had found the body of Ernest Borms, well-know Viennese doctor, on the walks not far from the Porte de Bagatelle. He'd been living in Neuilly for some years. [1939-HOM] Bagnolet. Anna Gorskin gave information which led to the arrest of Pepito Moretto, in a boarding house in the Bagnolet district. [1929-30-LET] Bahamas. Stuart Wilton's first wife was the daughter of an English brewer. She married again and lived in the Bahamas. [1961-PAR] Baie des Anges. A young girl, dressed in red, was selling mimosa which had just arrived from Nice, and M bought a sprig for his wife, who did not know the Côte d'Azur except from a colored postcard of the Baie des Anges. [1948-PRE] Lapointe told M he was waiting for a call back from the Nice Brigade Mobile. He'd found a postcard of the Baie des Anges of the house the Countess von Farnheim had lived in, the "Oasis" in Nice. [1950-PIC] M imagined that Germain Parendon was looking at the Promenade des Anglais and the blue waters of the Baie des Anges during their phone conversation. [1968-HES] Bailly. Torrence leafed through a directory looking for Ballu: Batin, Babert, Bailly, Ballu. 75 Quai Voltaire, just across the way. [1945-FAC] Bal. Farther along the canal than No. 8 was a wooden hut bearing the legend "Bal". [1933-ECL] Bal des Copains. Montmartre... They got out at Place Blanche and began to walk up Rue Lepic, which makes a large bend to the left where it meets Rue des Abbesses, and straight ahead Rue Tholozé climbs up a steep slope, then rejoins Rue Lepic by the Moulin de la Galette. About halfway up on the left was a building with violet letters that lit up at night: Bal des Copains.... Rue Tholozé leads into the Rue Lepic, right in front of the Moulin de la Galette, a dead end at a few steps. Léonard Planchon lived by the steps in a small house in the yard. About halfway along the street, on the right-hand side, there was a little dance hall, the Bal des Copains, where he met his wife. [1962-CLI] Bal des Fleurs. Antoine Batille recorded the sounds of the Bal des Fleurs at La Villette. [1969-TUE] Bal des Vertus. Pardon got wrong number calls since they had a similar number at the Bal des Vertus, a dancehall on Rue du Chemin-Vert. [1959-CON] Bald Stan. see: Hobson, Stanley. Balearic Islands. At dinner they'd talked about Pardon's daughter and son-in-law, and the cruise they were going to make to the Balearic Islands next summer. [1966-NAH] Ballade des Pendus. [Ballad of the Hanged Men] Below another sketch was some writing, four lines from Villon's Ballade des Pendus. [1930-31-PHO] Ballancourt. Mère Mathilde had been hiding Marcel Basso. Piquart followed her to Ballancourt road. [1931-GUI] Ballard, Théodore. A waiter in a café on the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue de Seine had seen Maurice Tremblet there playing billiards with a man named Théodore, with ginger hair and a moustache, who M learned from M. Mauvre at Couvreur et Bellechasse had worked for them at the same time, as Théodore Ballard. He'd worked a few weeks at a street fair in Montmartre. He was eventually caught breaking into Tremblet's palce on the Quai de la Gare. [1946-PAU] Ballu. Maître Ballu, Bernadette Amorelle's solicitor. She'd sent for him the week before to change her will. 75 Quai Voltaire. [1945-FAC] Ballu, Rue. Justin Minard lived in the Rue d'Enghien, just opposite the "Petit Parisien". He'd been going home by the Rue Ballu, then the Rue Chaptal, as usual. [1948-PRE] M asked Lucette what day she'd called the garage in the Rue Ballu about the car. [1962-COL] Lucile Gosset, a friend of the concierge of Nina Lassave's building who recognized Louis Mahossier at the time. A widow, apartment on Rue Ballu, which Mahossier was painting. [1971-SEU] Inspector Véliard said he thought Maurice Marcia lived in the 19th, near Rue Ballu. 21 bis Rue Ballu, on Marcia's identification card. They had the whole first floor.... M had himself driven to the Rue Ballu, and told the policeman who was driving to wait near the church. [1971-IND] Balthazar Coffee. The most distinguised name in the whole district was that of the people living at 17a, Rue Chaptal: Gendreau-Balthazar. Balthazar Coffee. [1948-PRE] Balthazar, Hector. The elder M. Balthazar, Hector, had been a pedlar, his father the village saddler. He'd died at 88 five years before. [1948-PRE] Balthazar, Hubert. Hubert Balthazar was Hector Balthazar's son, a good-for-nothing. He lived on the quays, not far from the Pont-Neuf, a kind of artist. In his 50s.... Paumelle mentioned M. Hubert. [1948-PRE] Baltic. Pskov was in Russia. M had looked it up in an atlas. Near the Baltic. Several little countries there, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, encircled by Poland and Russia.... and there Jews as well, scattered everywhere. [1929-30-LET] Else Anderson said they'd lived in a big castle on the shores of the Baltic. [1931-NUI] Pijpekamp said Conrad Popinga's murderer might be streaming across the Baltic. [1931-HOL] Bérenstein said before the war the two main stonecutting centers were Antwerp and Amsterdam. Most of the stonecutters were from the Baltic -- Latvia or Estonia. [1965-PAT] Baltimore. Albert Falconi said Jimmy [Jimmy O'Malley] was an American. His daughter was getting married next week in Baltimore. [1954-JEU] Balzac. An old tradition of the Paris police... the memoirs of Macé and those of the great Goron, each in his time the chief of what was then called the Sûreté. Vidocq was the most illustrious of them all, but unfortunately he left no recollections written by himself to compare with those by novelists, often using his own name, or in the case of Balzac, the name Vautrin. [1950-MEM] The Vieux Garçon had been frequented in the past by Balzac and Alexandre Dumas, and later on, literary luncheon parties brought together by the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Zola, Alphonse Daudet and others. [1962-COL] Once Hélène Lange took a Balzac but didn't like it. "Too coarse." [1967-VIC] Judge Page's office, one of those not yet modernized, was on the top floor of the Law Courts. There was an old time atmosphere about it, reminiscent of the novels of Balzac. [1968-ENF] Balzac. The Examining Magistrate had left his number for M - Balzac 23-74, in the Champs-Élysées district where M was now. [1958-TEM] Bambi Parendon. see: Parendon, Bambi Bambois. M reminded Léon Florentin of Bambois, who only had to threaten to twist his arm to have him shaking in his boots. [1968-ENF] Mme M said Old Bambois had come and offered her a tench, which she'd baked for dinner. [1969-TUE] Bandol. Willy Marco said they'd met Gloria Negretti at Bandol. [1930-PRO] M picked up a paper. Two lovers had committed suicide at Bandol. [1932-LIB] Alfred Meurant was located in Toulon, where he spent most of his time, with frequent trips along the Riviera, to Marseilles, Nice and Menton. He gave the names of three witnesses in Bandol, with whom he'd been playing cards. [1959-ASS] Liliane Pigou spent two weeks with her parents in Aix-en-Provence, where her father was an architect. Then she went to stay with her sister, who'd rented a house in Bandol. [1969-VIN] Maurice Marcia's body would be taken to Bandol, where they had a villa, after the funeral, and buried in a cemetery there.... Boutang introduced M to Charmeroy, Superintendent of Police in Bandol. [1971-IND] Bangkok. A reception desk clerk said in English "Your call to Bangkok..." [1957-VOY] Bank of Normandie. Among Yves Joris' letters: a letter from the Caen branch of the Bank of Normandie: Your account (#14173) has been credited with 300,000 francs, from the Dutch Bank, Hamburg. [1932-POR] Banks. P'tit Louis said that sailing ships make only one trip, but trawlers had to go twice to the Banks. He said he'd rather go to Fresnes. [1931-REN] Banque de Crédit. Émile said a commercial traveler said he'd seen Maurice Belloir and Louis Jeunet go into Belloir's house in the Rue de Vesle. Belloir was Vice-Chairman of the Banque de Crédit. [1930-31-PHO] Banque de France. In the apartment on the right an old couple, the husband had worked at the Banque de France. [1968-ENF] Banque du Nord. M called Marcel Basso's office to find out the name of his bank. It was the Banque du Nord, Boulevard Haussmann. [1931-GUI] Baptiste. M. Louis called Baptiste, the night wine waiter. [1938-OWE] the captain of the Cormorant, boat which did regular service between Giens Pt. and Porquerolles, (8 am and 5pm only). [1949-AMI] Baptiste Canut. see: Canut, Baptiste Baquet, Arthur. Véronique Lachaume's boyfriend was called Jacques Sainval, 44, 23 Rue de Ponthieu. His real name was Arthur Baquet. She called him Jacquot. He called her Nique. [1958-TEM] Bar Association. Philippe Liotard told M that the Bar Association has certain strict rules, and that he had not observed them very carefully. [1949-MME] Barbarin. Maître Barbarin, Quai Voltaire, was the Lachaume's notary. [1958-TEM] Barbès. Joseph Audiat was not making for the Rue Lepic, where he lived, nor the center of the city. He kept along the boulevard [Boulevard Rochechouart], where the métro ran overhead, and at the Barbès crossroads he went towards La Chapelle. [1934-MAI] M told Lucas Louise Filon had been a prostitute who'd had her beat in the Barbès district.... Janvier tried a bistro at the Barbès crossroads, but no one there had seen Pierre Eyraud. [1953-TRO] Barbès-Rochechouart. Someone said they'd seen the yellow Citroën in the Barbès-Rochechouart district. The Barbès district was next to that of the Gare du Nord, where Albert Rochain had worked as a waiter. [1947-MOR] Barbès, Boulevard. [Stephan Strevzki] followed the same route, from Trinité and Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], Place Clichy and Barbès by way of the Rue Caulaincourt, then from Barbès [Boulevard Barbès] to the Gare du Nord and the Rue La Fayette. [1939-HOM] Méjat said Marcel Airaud's mother's house had furniture from a department store on Boulevard Barbès. [1940-JUG] If Mme M had walked as far as the Place de la République, she could have taken a bus going right to the Boulevard Barbès, and reached the Place d'Anvers in plenty of time for her dentist's appointment. But she went down the stairs at the Richard-Lenoir station of the métro, just a step or two from her own door, because of the "nice lady". [1949-MME] Torrence called from the Barbès station, to say he'd found the driver who'd brought Loraine Martin back to the neighborhood. [1950-NOE] Oscar Bonvoisin's living room was like one of those on display at the Boulevard Barbès.... The concierge of the Countess von Farnheim's building's son, Oscar Aubain, was a carpenter's apprentice in a workshop on Boulevard Barbès. [1950-PIC] Martine Gilloux had lived somewhere in Montmartre, off the Boulevard Barbès. [1956-ECH] After dinner M called PJ's general information. An old lady had jumped out of a window on Boulevard Barbès, a corpse had been found in the Seine at Pont de Saint-Cloud. [1962-CLI] The furniture was the sort to be found in any of the big stores on the Boulevard Barbès, called "provincial". [1969-VIN] barbituates. Attempted suicide by barbituate poisoning in the Rue Blanche. [1946-MAL] barbituates. These things happened so frequently in the luxury hotels that if they got a call from the 16th, someone would invariably ask, "downs?", meanining barbituates [Gardénal]. [1957-VOY] Barcelona. Joseph Audiat said the man from Marseilles had been in Barcelona, but nothing was doing there. [1934-MAI] Three or four times a year the Maupoises took a trip to Venice, Barcelona, Florence, Naples, Greece, or elsewhere. [1965-PAT] Barcelonette. Ten years earlier, when M had arrested Christiani, he'd struck M with his knuckle-duster. He was now the owner of a couple of 'houses' in Paris and another at Barcelonette. [1936-PIG] Bar Council. M asked if Jean-Charles Gaillard had ever had any trouble with the Bar Council. [1962-COL] Bardamont. M found Bardamont in the phone book while searching for Émile Blaise. [1941-SIG] Bar de la Grosse Horloge. Lapointe's sister, Germaine Lapointe, often waited for him at the Bar de la Grosse Horloge when she got off from work at the publisher's on the Left Bank at 5:00. [1949-MME] Bar de la Lune. An anonymous letter said Popaul could be found in the Bar de la Lune on the Rue de Charonne. [1959-CON] Bar de l'Amiral. Le Grand Marcel was packing for Toulon. Said he could be reached there c/o Bob, Bar de l'Amiral. Quai de Stalingrad. [1970-FOL] Bar des Églantiers. One of the addresses in Marcel Basso's book was Lola, Bar des Églantiers, 18 Rue Montaigne, crossed out with blue chalk. [1931-GUI] Bar des Tilleuls. Fouad Ouéni said he'd been at the Saint-Michel Club, a gambling club above the Bar des Tilleuls, till 1:30. [1966-NAH] Bar du Levant. Ernestine Jussiaume had found the bar Alfred had called from, on the Rue de Maubeuge, near a leather goods shop, called Bar du Levant. [1951-GRA] Bar du Soleil. M called the third precinct, from the Bar du Soleil, spoke to Detective Bonfils. Bonfils said that Big Nicolas and Danvers were at the station. [1951-LOG] Barens, Cornélius. Cornélius Barens, called Cor, a cadet on the training ship, was also at the house the night of the murder. [1931-HOL] Barillard. M looked through the members list of the Hundred Keys Club. ... Barillard, of the Barillard Oil Company, (next month Mlle. Barillard was going to marry Eric Cornal, of Cornal Biscuits). [1964-DEF] Barillard, Fernand. Fernand Barillard lived on the fourth floor right at Aline's. Aline and Manuel Palmari lived on the left. Traveling salesman for deluxe packaging firm. 40-45, pretty Belgian wife, fair hair, plump, always singing.... about 40, dark moustache. Offered M some wine from Sancerre. 5'7", thick dark hair.... Fernand Barillard's wife, née Mina Claes, said they'd been married 8 years. About 30, nice and plump, fair hair. [1965-PAT] Barillard, Mina. Fernand Barillard's wife, née Mina Claes. [1965-PAT] Barillard Oil Company. M looked through the members list of the Hundred Keys Club. ... Barillard, of the Barillard Oil Company.... [1964-DEF] Barion, Armand. M asked for Dr. Armand Barion, a specialist in lung diseases and a former intern at Laënnec, who had lived in Neuilly three years. Married, three children, a boy of 7, girl of 5, and a baby a few months old. [1936-LUN] Bariteau. The sound of a rowboat under the bridge was no doubt old Bariteau, going out to lay his eel traps.... One of the men playing belote with M was old Bariteau, the eel fisherman. [1940-JUG] Barnabé. The Chief had heard that Pepito Palestrino was in the Barnabé affair, the man killed the week before in the Place Blanche. And drugs as well. [1934-MAI] Barnacle. The only other member of the Old School was Barnacle, who had remained a detective, known as "Cold in the Head" or "The man with the big feet." He was retiring in three months. M asked him to take pictures of Nicole Prieur. ... Came to M with photos, including pictures of Nicole, by the railing of the Parc Monceau, with her dachshund.... Everyone called him "Monsieur Barnacle" as if "Monsieur" was his first name. [1964-DEF] Barnat, Max. M had asked Bodard, of the Financial Section, to summon the man the papers were talking about every day, Max Bernat, a central figure in the latest financial scandal, from the Santé. [1955-TEN] Barodet. Chief-Inspector Barodet, whose name was in the paper's more than any other, was at the house. In M's eyes he was almost the most wonderful man in the world. [1948-PRE] Baron. René Josselin's daughter, Véronique Fabre, was married to Dr. Paul Fabre, a pediatrician, assistant to Prof. Baron at the Children's Hospital.[Hôpital des Enfants Malades] [1961-BRA] Baron. M called Janvier and asked if Baron was there. For 25 years he had specialized in race tracks. On the day of the Grand Prix he too wore a pearl-gray derby and spats. [1951-LOG] M called to Baron in the inspectors' office to have him call the Brasserie Dauphine for a big pot of coffee and croissants for the interrogation of Jenny and Gisèle Marton. Janin and Bonfils were also there. [1957-SCR] It was Dupeu and Baron wo took over, outside, at 6 am. [1959-ASS] Someone had to be sent to relieve Aristide Fumel at the Hôtel Lambert. Not a member of his "personal team", but Lourtie or Lesueur. Neither was available, so Baron went over. [1961-PAR] Baron reported that he'd checked the Madeleine Theater. The two seats had been occupied. Behind were the Demailles, Rue de la Pompe in Passy. He'd question them. [1961-BRA] Janvier had brought inspectors Baron and Vacher to Manuel Palmari's. [1965-PAT] Baron raised his hand shyly when M asked the 15 or so in the detectives' office if anyone spoke English. He said he had a bad accent. M told him to replace Lapointe. [1966-NAH] Baron was watching the house at Rue de Turbigo, Neveu the office in Montmartre, at Avenue Trudaine. [1971-SEU] Baron was on duty at the Boulevard Saint-Germain house. [1972-CHA] Baronne de Brand-Lussac. see: Brand-Lussac, Baronne de Baron, The. A gang of Poles, 5 or 6 of them, were holed up in the squalid Hôtel des Arcades. One of them, nicknamed the Baron, had changed a bill stolen from the Vansittart farm, at a parimutuel window at Longchamps. [1940-CEC] François Lagrange's nickname. His father had been a baron, or had pretended to be, according to Pardon. [1952-REV] The Baron, as a reporter had been frequenting Criminal Police Headquarters for almost as many years as M.... Someone said the Baron had just arrived, and young Jean Rougin, and one photographer. [1955-TEN] Barracks. One of the local inspectors at Rouen called to say Jacques Pétillon had gone straight to the Barracks when he'd arrived, into a brasserie nearby, the Tivoli, frequented by prostitutes, stayed half an hour, and was waiting for the return train to Paris. [1942-FEL] Barraud. Jaquette Larrieu said she wanted to talk to the Abbé Barraud, who was at the Sainte-Clotilde presbytery. [1960-VIE] Barrère. The man from Barodet's squad who was digging was Barrère, who'd been shot a month earlier arresting a Pole in the Rue Caulaincourt. [1948-PRE] Barthet. Olga Boulanger's parents had come from Brittany for the funeral, learned somehow that she had been four months pregnant, and got in touch with Barthet, an acrimonious lawyer. [1936-LUN] Bas-Rhin. The name on the Doc's identity card was François Keller, François Keller, François Marie Florentin Keller, born in Mulhouse, Bas-Rhin. [1962-CLO] Basel. The Commodore, on leaving Amsterdam, had gone to Basel, so M called the Swiss police. [1946-MAL] Basile Vernoux. see: Vernoux, Basile Basque. M knew the Examining Magistrate, [Gastambide] a meticulous, suspicious little Basque, who weighed every word. [1934-MAI] Bassano, Rue de. M was in the Rue Magellan, and to the right, at the far end of Rue Bassano, lay the Champs-Élysées. [1957-VOY] Maître Prijean was Jacqueline Rousselet's lawyer, Rue de Bassano. [1962-CLO] Walter Carus had an office at 18b Rue de Bassano, off the Champs-Élysées.... M had Lapointe drive him to Walter Carus offices on the Rue de Bassano. The company name was Carrossoc, with reception rooms on the first floor. [1966-VOL] Bassin. At the 3rd Arrondissement, M asked Bassin if he'd be taking down François Mélan's statement. He'd known him for twenty years. Told him that after Mélan signed the statement, he'd likely have to take him over to the Central Police Station... gently, no brutality. The bodies of three women were found in Mélan's garden. [1964-DEF] Basso, Marcel. M looked at the brass owner's plate in the car he'd been following: Marcel Basso, 32 Quai d'Austerlitz.... M followed him back, "Coal and Coke Merchant and Importer." [1931-GUI] Basso, Pierrot. Marcel Basso's 10-year-old son, Pierrot went to wait for James. [1931-GUI] Bastia. M returned to the Quai des Orfèvres, where he might learn of a young tough from Pigalle, newly arrived from Marseilles or Bastia, who had done in a rival to prove he was a man. [1968-HES] Bastiani. M called Nice to speak with Superintendent Bastiani at the Department of Criminal Investigation. Asked him to check on Marcelle Maillant, Mirella Jonker, and if he'd known Lognon when he was at the Rue des Saussaies. He remembered "Inspector Grumpy". [1963-FAN] Bastille. Gérard Pardon Pardon, Juliette Boynet 's nephew, Cécile Pardon's brother, enlisted in the army, married, lived in Paris near the Bastille. Hardly ever visited, but had come the week before. Wife was pregnant.... Charles Dandurand had been spotted loitering near the Porte Saint-Martin, Boulevard Sébastopol, and the Bastille... [1940-CEC] Bastille. M took a bus to the Bastille, and rang the bell of the third floor apartment on Rue du Chemin-Vert. The door was opened by Mme. Dufour, young and pretty. M's own home was only 500 yards away, on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, but he didn't go there. [1930-31-TET] Oscar said he'd started with a guy he'd met at the Bastille. He remembered a car loaded with plate stolen from a villa at Bougival. [1931-NUI] P'tit Louis recognized M and challenged him. "Come for me?"... M said "Don't forget the pocket-book business when you're doing your glass-eating act in the Bastille." [1931-REN] The last No. 13 (Bastille-Crétail) tram trailed it's yellow lights the whole length of the Quai des Carrières.... then darted off towards Charenton.... Lucas reported that Gassin had bought a revolver from a gunsmith at the Bastille. [1933-ECL] M arrived at the Rue du Chemin-Vert, a narrow and animated street in the Bastille district, filled primarily with workshops and warehouses. [1942-MEN] When Joseph Leroy had run from the house he'd run except when he was near the Bastille, since there were some policemen around. Then he'd gone to the Gare de l'Est and got the idea of going to Chelles. [1945-PIP] In Paris, where he lived, between the République and the Bastille, it would be easy to find someone who'd lived in the same house for the past thirty or forty years. [1946-NEW] The man [Victor Poliensky] made off towards the Bastille, walked nearly the whole way round the Place, started down the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, but turned right down the Rue de la Roquette.... [Albert Rochain] had made his journey through the Châtelet-Bastille district. [1947-MOR] A tough guy from the Bastille area or the Place Pigalle would have put them down as choirboys. [1949-CHE] Valentine Besson's third brother, Lucien Fouque, had worked in Paris as a hairdresser, was knifed in a café near the Bastille. [1949-DAM] The Jules Naud brothers had a load to deliver to the Quai de l'Arsenal. It was a couple of miles downstream, between the Bastille and Seine. They'd be there for almost a week unloading. [1955-COR] Mme M and he lunched in a restaurant near the Bastille. [1956-AMU] A sailor who spent a lot of time commuting to South America and Central America on cargo boats offered some information to M about Popaul, who'd used to hang out in the Bastille district. Said he'd met him in Venezuela and he'd claimed he'd killed Christine Josset. [1959-CON] M imagined that Roger Prou could have been a pimp... not at the Étoile, but at Porte Saint-Denis or Bastille... or he could organize warehouse burglaries around Gare du Nord... [1962-CLI] Demarie said the men should be near the Bastille, unless they'd got to the Rue de la Roquette. [1966-NAH] Bastille. Gilbert Pigou said at first he took a room in a cheap but respectable hotel near the Bastille. [1969-VIN] Bastille, Boulevard de la. M spent a quarter of an hour in a barbershop on the Boulevard de la Bastille. [1945-FAC] Bastille Day. There was a kind of Bastille Day gaiety to the atmosphere in the Old Town. [1931-JAU] Bastille, Place de la. No. 18 Rue de la Roquette turned out to be a low-class hotel. Less than 50 yards from the Place de la Bastille, the Rue de Lappe, with its little dance-halls, leads into it. [1930-31-PHO] Jacques Rivaud had received a 9-minute call from Paris that Tuesday, from Archives 14-67, the Restaurant des Quatres Sergents, Place de la Bastille. [1932-FOU] Boris Saft seldom went out. He spent his time reading Polish newspapers which were fetched for him from a news-stand in the Place de la Bastille. [1937-38-STA] There'd been a raid at the Bastille [Place de la Bastille] and about 30 women had been brought in. [1939-MAJ] Having crossed the Place de la Bastille, M was passing a little bistro on his way down Boulevard Henri-IV.... Everything was shrouded in Scotch mist, and Gérard Pardon had only just realized they were near the Place de la Bastille. The driver was approaching Place des Vosges by way of Rue Saint-Antoine. [1940-CEC] In the Place de la Bastille, at the corner of the Rue de la Roquette, M studied the lights. [1945-FAC] This time the call [from Albert Rochain] had come in from the Quatre Sergents de La Rochelle, a restaurant on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, close to the Place de la Bastille.... M sent another detective to check all the little cafés around the Châtelet, the Place des Vosges, and the Bastille. [1947-MOR] A torchlight retreat was being sounded in the Place de la Bastille. [1948-PRE] When Fernande Steuvals had come home before Frans Steuvels on Monday, she'd seen him get off a bus at Rue des Francs-Bourgeois. M asked if if was from Bastille or downtown, and she said downtown. [1949-MME] Loraine Martin said she'd seen her brother-in-law Paul Martin slouching about in the Bastille area, sometimes selling newspapers in the street. [1950-NOE] The party at the Léonards was on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, not far from the Place de la Bastille. [1950-MEM] M found himself standing alone in the Place de la Bastille. He began to walk along the Grands Boulevards, determined to go to the cinema. [1951-MEU] M remembered how, at the age of 20, he had first arrived in Paris, disturbed at the ferment. In some "strategic points" - Les Halles, Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], the Bastille, and Boulevard Saint-Martin - the ferment was even more intense. [1952-BAN] Later, in the Place de la Bastille, outside a café, Mme M said she wondered how they managed in New York and London without outdoor cafés. [1956-AMU] Honoré Cuendet had been living in the Rue Saint-Antoine, 100 yards from the Place de la Bastille. [1961-PAR] Hubert van Houtte said he'd been dancing near Place de la Bastille - on a narrow street where there are half a dozen dance halls - at Chez Léon. [1962-CLO] M walked as far as the Bastille, the two men connected to the Ministry of the Interior following him, spent an hour outside a café reading the newspapers, and walked back along Boulevard Beaumarchais and Rue de Chemin-Vert. [1964-DEF] The man from the "happy couple", Bébert, greeted M. M had arrested him first during a procession in Boulevard des Capucines, some visiting head of state. Second time had been outside the entrance to the métro at the Bastille. [1967-VIC] One of Antoine Batille's recordings, about Lucien and Gouvion taking turns, was recorded at Café des Amis, Place de la Bastille.... At the Place de la Bastille, Émile Branchu went toward the Boulevard Beaumarchais, and opened the door of a black Citroën DS, which drove off immediately. [1969-TUE] It was quiet on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, people looking down on the street from their windows as M and Mme took a stroll. They went as far as the Bastille and came back by the Boulevard Beaumarchais.... M and Mme M walked to the Bastille after dinner. They walked on Boulevard Beaumarchais, Rue Servan, and finally came back to Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, their much-loved, shabby old apartment. [1970-FOL] Two or three buses were parked near Place de la Bastille, alongside the Arc de Triomphe, the Sacré-Coeur, and the Tour Eiffel, along M's walk home from the offices of the Parisien Libéré. [1971-SEU] Bastille, Rue de la. Oscar had dinner once a week in Paris, at the Escargot on the Rue de la Bastille. [1931-NUI] Batallions d'Afrique. see: Africa Batallions Batignolles. Lucas called from the Batignolles police station, nearest to Désirée Brault's house. He had the gun. [1953-TRO] Batignolles, Boulevard des. Two policemen were watching Feinstein's flat on the Boulevard des Batignolles. [1931-GUI] Philippe Lauer said he'd seen the paper over coffee and rolls in the Boulevard des Batignolles. [1934-MAI] Lucas had called from the Boulevard des Batignolles to say that it look 'the birds were about to fly'. [1936-PEI] 13 Boulevard des Batignolles. The address of Octave Le Cloaguen, in the identification papers used by the old man found in Mlle. Jeanne's kitchen.... A few minutes later M and Le Cloaguen were on the Boulevard des Batignolles, drawing up in front of a big building of gray stone, a porte-cochere, an interior courtyard, an air of spaciousness and affluence. 4th floor. Mme. Antoinette Le Cloaguen opened the door. [1941-SIG] An old man, Mabille, a moneylender, lived opposite Julien Foucrier's hotel in the Rue des Dames , behind the Boulevard des Batignolles. Foucrier had robbed and killed him twenty years earlier.... Françoise Boursicault had called a lawyer, Maître Lechat, who lived in the Boulevard des Batignolles, and who promised to come see her in the afternoon. [1951-MEU] Police Constable Dambois had spotted Albert Jorisse around 6:00 at the junction of Place Clichy [Place de Clichy] and Boulevard des Batignolles, coming out of a bar. [1952-BAN] The man who found the body said there was a police alarm at the corner of the Boulevard de Clichy. He knew, as they lived on the Boulevard des Batignolles, close by. [1954-JEU] M remembered that Catroux lived on the Boulevard des Batignolles, at the far end, on the left, with a restaurant to the right of the door. Second floor, to the right. [1954-MIN] Monique Juteaux, 24, living with her mother on the Boulevard des Batignolles, visited a friend on Avenue de Saint-Ouen, stabbed three times. [1955-TEN] Joseph Goldman lived in the house, on the third floor. He took his meals in a café on the Boulevard des Batignolles. Was a bachelor or a widower. [1956-ECH] Justin Lavancher's daughter went to an art school on Boulevard des Batignolles. [1965-PAT] Jean-Luc Bodard, the red-head, lived in a small hotel, the Hôtel Beauséjour, on the Boulevard des Batignolles, and took his meals in the restaurant.... The Boulevard des Batignolles, with its double row of trees, was dark and deserted, but at the end could be seen the brilliant illuminations of the Place Clichy [Place de Clichy]. [1968-ENF] Le Grand Marcel lived at 27 Boulevard des Batignolles. [1970-FOL] Lesage & Gélot. Painting and Decorating, 25, Boulevard des Batignolles. Sign on the panel truck driven at the time of Nina Lassave's murder by Louis Mahossier, which had led to his being found. [1971-SEU] Batignolles, Rue des. Pepito Moretto lived at Hôtel Beauséjour, 3, Rue des Batignolles. [1929-30-LET] Germain Cageot lived in the Rue des Batignolles. [1934-MAI] Maurice Tremblet's, in the lower end of the Rue des Dames, near the Rue des Batignolles, was swarming with people in the sunshine. [1946-PAU] The Baron lived in the Rue des Batignolles. The telephone was off the hook. [1951-LOG] Batille, Antoine. The young man found stabbed in the Rue Popincourt was Antoine Batille, 21, Quai d'Anjou, on the Île Saint-Louis, not far from Pont Marie. [1969-TUE] Batille, Gérard. . Gérard Batille, Antoine Batille's father, was the owner of Mylène perfume and beauty aids. 45-46. [1969-TUE] Batille, Martine. Antoine Batille's mother was Martine Batille. [1969-TUE] Batille, Minou. Monique Batille, Antoine Batille's sister. 18, was called Minou. [1969-TUE] Batille, Monique. Antoine Batille's sister was Monique Batille, nicknamed Minou. Tall, thin, smoked Gitanes. [1969-TUE] Batin. Torrence leafed through a directory looking for Ballu: Batin, Babert, Bailly, Ballu. 75 Quai Voltaire, just across the way. [1945-FAC] Battle of Flowers. There was mimosa everywhere, under a brilliant July 14 sun. M asked a policeman why all the bands were there: The Battle of Flowers [le grand Corso fleuri] at Cannes. [1939-MAJ] Battle of Flowers. Féret said the weather [in Nice] was grand, the town packed with foreigners who'd come for the Carnival. The bataille des fleurs was the next day. [1954-JEU] Bauche, Aline. Aline's full name. [1965-PAT] Bauche, Jean. The youngest of the motorcycle gang, Jean Bauche, known as Jeannot, was barely 18. He also worked in the locksmith's. His mother was a cleaning woman on the Rue Saint-Antoine. Finally, after 20 hours, Bauche had cracked, admitted it was Gaston Nouveau who'd set up the job at the Lotus, a small bar on the Rue Saint-Antoine. [1963-FAN] Baudelin. M tried to think of inspectors who'd left the Criminal Investigation Department employ. Baudelin, tall pale young man, probably left for ill health. Falconet, over 50, asked to retire early because of his drinking. Little Valencourt. Fischer, weighed at least 200 pounds. [1954-MIN] Baud, Julien. Émile Parendon's office boy. about 20, just came from Switzerland. Ambition to become a playwright. A well-built young man with red hair and freckled cheeks. Came from Morges, on Lake Geneva, canton of Vaud. [1968-HES] Baule, La. see: La Baule Baur, Harry. M felt the first screen Maigret, Pierre Renoir, was relatively true to life. But in Abel Tarride he'd become flabby and obese. Harry Baur may have been a great actor, but he was 20 years older! And with Préjean he suddenly got younger. Finally, lately, with Charles Laughton, he'd become stout again, and spoke English! At least Pierre Renoir hadn't worn a bowler. [1950-MEM] Bayeux. Cécile Ledru said when she was an uneducated girl of 15, and couldn't even read, she'd found employment with Mme. Joséphine Crozier at Bayeux. [1937-38-BAY] M got a call from the Rue Damrémont Police Station, that Mlle. Jeanne, a fortuneteller at 67 bis Rue Caulaincourthad been murdered. Real name was Marie Picard, from Bayeux. [1941-SIG] Bayonne. The two young Frenchmen, about 20, had both come from Bayonne. One was Joseph [Joseph Daumale] and the other Joachim [John Maura]. It was the Gay Nineties, what in Paris were called the bastringues. They put together a comedy act called J & J. [1946-NEW] Bazancourt, Marquis de. M called the Marquis de Bazancourt, 3 Avenue Gabriel, a wealthy neighborhood with windows looking onto the Champs-Élysées to check on the De Dion Bouton. "Is it personal?" "Yes" "The marquis died three months ago." [1948-PRE] Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville. Mme M had yet to see M spend one hour in the precious deck chair he'd brought back in triumph from the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville. [1945-FAC] BEA. It was a British plane, BEA, [BOAC] flight 312. [1957-VOY] Beard. The Beard, the nickname of one of Stan the Killer's gang, Boris Saft. [1937-38-STA] Béarn, Rue de. Less than a hundred yards from the Place des Vosges, at the corner of the Rue de Béarn, a uniformed policeman was on duty at the police station. [1931-OMB] Beastly Buggers. Billy Louette played in a band called the Beastly Buggers. [1970-FOL] Beaubourg, Rue. Oscar Laget published trade journals, Le Journal de la Boucherie, Le Bulletin des Mandataires, Le Moniteur des Cuirs et Peaux, and others, in the Rue Beaubourg. [1936-FEN] Rue Réaumur, Rue de Turbigo, then down the Rue Chapon into the Rue Beaubourg. M thought the man [Victor Poliensky] was on familiar ground. [1947-MOR] Beaucaire. M. Padailhan, the Inspector of Taxes at Nevers told M to say he was his cousin from Beaucaire if anyone met him. [1930-GAL] Beauce. Bernadette Amorelle had traveled all the way across Beauce to see M. [1945-FAC] Beaudet, Jacqueline. René Lussac's wife's maiden name was Jacqueline Beaudet, born in Orléans. [1961-PAR] Beaudoin. Every morning Louis Thouret caught the bus at the corner, which got him to Juvisy station at 8:17. He traveleved with a neighbor, M. Beaudoin, who worked in Inland Revenue. From Gare de Lyon they went to Saint-Martin [Boulevard Saint-Martin] by Métro. [1952-BAN] Beaujolais, Rue de. Jean Martin had met his wife Loraine Martin in a little restaurant in the Rue de Beaujolais, close to his office and her shop. [1950-NOE] Beaujon. Louis Jeunet's wife, Jeanne Jeunet, said her father was a male nurse in Beaujon. He had opened a small herbalist's in the Rue Picpus, which her mother ran. Six years ago she'd met Jeunet, a driller in a workshop in Belleville. They married and rented a room for her mother in the Rue du Chemin-Vert. [1930-31-PHO] Jacques Pétillon was taken to Beaujon Hospital. [1942-FEL] From the ambulance M recognized the somber gates of Beaujon. [1948-PRE] Lucas told M he'd arranged for Lognon to be taken to the hospital at Beaujon.... M told them to take Charlie Cinaglia to Beaujon hospital, which would make Lognon happy. [1951-LOG] The man Constable Margaret had shot had been hit in the neck, and was in Beaujon Hospital in a coma. [1961-PAR] Beaulieu, Gassin de. Father of Mme. Parendon. One of the most ferocious prosecutors at the time of the Liberation. Appointed first President of the Supreme Court of Appeal. Now retired to his château in Vendée, in the forest of Vouvant. Four daughters, all married. [1968-HES] Beauman. 2nd floor tenant in Jeanne Debul's building. Diamond brokers, away in Switzerland. [1952-REV] Beaumarchais, Boulevard. M had Nine Moinard come with him to the Boulevard Beaumarchais to find a taxi. [1931-OMB] The previous Sunday, on the fourth floor of an apartment house in the Boulevard Beaumarchais, where the ground floor was a pipe manufacturer, Louise Voivin, 26, had died suddenly, apparently poisoned. [1936-BEA] Four young men had robbed a radio dealer's shop in the Boulevard Beaumarchais. One of the youths had fired a shot that killed a policeman. [1937-38-BER] This time the call [from Albert Rochain] had come in from the Quatre Sergents de La Rochelle, a restaurant on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, close to the Place de la Bastille. [1947-MOR] The driver who picked up Loraine Martin at the Gare du Nord brought her to the juncture of the Boulevard Beaumarchais and Rue du Chemin-Vert.... Loraine Martin said the luggage receipt was in the poste restante in the Boulevard Beaumarchais. [1950-NOE] The party at the Léonards was on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, not far from the Place de la Bastille. [1950-MEM] Eugène Benoît's last address was Hôtel Beaumarchais, on Boulevard Beaumarchais. [1954-MIN] Ferdinand Fumal showed M 7 anonymous threat letters he'd received, postmarked at a post office near the Opéra. One had been from Boulevard Beaumarchais, another the Central Post Office in the Rue du Louvre, the last, Avenue des Ternes. [1956-ECH] M walked as far as the Bastille, the two men connected to the Ministry of the Interior following him, spent an hour outside a café reading the newspapers, and walked back along Boulevard Beaumarchais and Rue de Chemin-Vert. [1964-DEF] Mina Claes worked as a salesgirl in a jewelers on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, where she had met Fernand Barillard. [1965-PAT] Antoine Batilles' voice on his tape recording told where the recording had been made: the Brasserie Lorraine, Boulevard Beaumarchais.... At the Place de la Bastille, Émile Branchu went toward the Boulevard Beaumarchais, and opened the door of a black Citroën DS, which drove off immediately. [1969-TUE] It was quiet on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, people looking down on the street from their windows as M and Mme M took a stroll. They went as far as the Bastille and came back by the Boulevard Beaumarchais. [1970-FOL] 38. The address of Louis Mahossier's lawyer, Maître Loiseau. [1971-SEU] Beaumarchais, Hôtel. see: Hôtel Beaumarchais Beau Pigeon. see: Pretty Pigeon Beauséjour, Hôtel. see: Hôtel Beauséjour Beausoleil, Françoise. Jacques Rivaud's sister-in-law, Françoise Beausoleil, around 20, burst into the room, said she'd been attacked in the Moulin-Neuf wood. [1932-FOU] Beausoleil, Joséphine. Françoise Beausoleil and Germaine Rivaud's mother Joséphine Beausoleil came to Bergerac. She'd sung at the Olympia. [1932-FOU] Beausoleil, Yvonne. M asked Joséphine Beausoleil if her name was Yvonne, to learn her real name. [1932-FOU] Beauval. The Two Brothers had taken on a load at Beauval from Wharf No. 48 on the Ourcq Canal. As usual they were several tons overweight. The previous night, as they were drawing away from the dock at La Villette, headed for the Saint-Martin Canal, they had churned up a lot of mud. [1955-COR] Beauvau, Place. The father, a Deputy, alleged that on instructions from the Place Beauvau, his son had been turned into a drug addict, in order to compromise him. [1957-SCR] They could hear the rumble of the buses on the Place Beauvau from Émile Parendon's office. [1968-HES] Beaux Arts. see: École des Beaux-Arts Bébé. Charlot's girlfriend, arrived at Porquerolles on the Cormorant; dancer or singer in a Marseilles night club, had been to the island 4 or 5 times. [1949-AMI] Bébé Cadum. see: Cadum, Baby Bebelmans. Anna Bebelmans's father, had been mayor of the town for a long time and once stood for Parliament; his wife was dead, daughter's name forbidden to be mentioned. She hadn't been told of her mother's death. Formerly a magistrate at Groningen. [1949-AMI] Bebelmans, Anna. Born at Ostend. 18. During the interrogation of Philippe de Moricourt and Jef de Greef, Anna took Veronal on their boat, committing suicide so she wouldn't have to testify against de Greef. Charlot thought of it before M... She wore a little cotton frock under which one sensed she was as naked as beneath her sunsuit. She had a well-rounded body, extremely feminine, so expressly made for caressing that despite oneself one imagined her in bed. [1949-AMI] Bebelmans, Jef. A call came in from the Aulnoye station, that a Jef Bebelmans, an acrobat born in Antwerp, had been found emerging from under a coach with a parcel containing a considerable sum in international certificates. [1936-ARR] Bébé Rose, Le. see: Le Bébé Rose Bébert. Émile Ducrau asked if the assistant lock-keeper found hung had been Bébert. [1933-ECL] from Montpellier. One of the pictures of criminals M showed to Emma. [1941-SIG] The man from the "happy couple", Bébert, greeted M. M thought names like Bébert, P'tit Louis, and Grand Jules were common enough in his profession. M had arrested him first during a procession in Boulevard des Capucines, some visiting head of state. Second time had been outside the entrance to the métro at the Bastille. His wife, Bobonne, was from Brittany. [1967-VIC] Bécasse. The Bécasse was the best restaurant in Épernay. [1930-PRO] Ephraim Graphopoulos (and M, following him) had dinner at the Bécasse, Liège restaurant behind the Royal Theater. [1931-GAI] Bécassine. One girl was made up as Bécassine, the proverbial little slavey. [1931-GUI] Bécheval. Lucas said he'd stopped the van from the Voyages Duchemin Agency in the Boulevard Rochechouart. They'd collected a trunk from a 3rd-floor tenant, M. Bécheval, to be sent by goods train to Quimper. Martino's body was in it. [1936-PIG] Bécon-les-Bruyères. Michel Goldfinger had sold stones to a jeweler from Bécon-les-Bruyères, who had left the country without paying. [1946-MAL] Louise Laboine hadn't stopped till she reached the corner of the Rue Caumartin and the Rue Saint-Lazare. The waiter who served her was Eugène, bald, lived in Bécon-les-Bruyères, and had a daughter about her age. [1954-JEU] Beetje Liewens. see: Liewens, Beetje Beggars' Opera. Gilbert Pigou had had a room in the Rue de la Grande-Truanderie. M knew the street. There one had the illusion that the days of the Beggars' Opera had returned. [1969-VIN] Béguin. Mlle. The 5th floor tenant of Frans Steuvels' building.... Old Lady Béguin was 68, regarded as not quite all there, according to Philippe Liotard. [1949-MME] Beirut. In the old days there were agencies in Paris to recruit artistes, like Germaine Laboine, who learnt a few dance steps and were sent off to Turkey, Egypt or Beirut, where they were employed as bar girls in cabarets. [1954-JEU] Colombani checked the flights. 315 for London; Stuttgart; Cairo, Beirut... P Potteret; New York by Pan American, Pittsburg... Piroulet... no Louise Paverini. [1957-VOY] Fouad Ouéni said he'd met Félix Nahour in Paris, at Law School, not in Beirut. [1966-NAH] Bel Air, Hôtel. see: Hôtel Bel Air Belfort, Lion de. see Belfort, Lion of. [1957-SCR] Belfort, Lion of. [Bartholdi's Lion de Belfort (1878), at the Place Denfert-Rochereau] Joseph Heurtin ran, didn't stop till he reached the Lion of Belfort, which he stood and gaped at. [1930-31-TET] They passed the Lion de Belfort, drove along the Boulevard Raspail, and over the Pont-Neuf. [1934-MAI] When M arrived at Saint-Pierre de Montrouge, the gates of the métro were shut and there was not a single taxi in sight. He hesitated between heading for the Lion de Belfort and going down Avenue de Maine in the direction of the Gare Montparnasse. [1957-SCR] Belges, Quai des. The photo that had been in the envelope in the dead man's pocket had been signed Léon Moutel, art photographer, Quai des Belges, Fécamp. [1929-30-LET] Belgian. M thought of the Belgian university professor who spoke 40 far-eastern dialects but had never set foot in Asia. [1929-30-LET] In the man's pockets were loose change including French and Belgian coins and tiny Dutch silver pieces. [1930-31-PHO] Lucas said they were still waiting for information from the Belgian police.. [1931-NUI] The Peeters kept a shop on the Belgian frontier. Father, mother, three children. Anna Peeters worked in the shop. Maria Peeters was a teacher, Joseph Peeters a law student at Nancy. [1932-FLA] At the Tabac Henri IV, the conversation was about a Belgian with three motor-barges who'd taken 52 francs for coal from Charleroi. [1933-ECL] A self-propelled barge flying a Belgian flag remind M of Théodore Aerts, who must have reached Paris by then.... Arthur Aerts was Belgian. [1936-PEN] Paul Vinchon was an inspector on the Belgian frontier. [1936-ARR] The young man's name was Jehan d'Oulmont, an excellent Belgian family, which had figured repeatedly in his country's history.... M calculated that they must not have more than 300 Belgian francs left. [1936-PEI] M said, in his opinion, when he saw there was no hope, Albert Marcinelle would cross the Belgian border. [1937-38-BER] The butcher said he knew someone who wanted to buy Jules' house - the Belgian, who wanted to turn it into a cinema. [1938-CEU] Mansuy asked Dubois if he knew Philippe Bellamy's valet, Francis Decoin. He answered that he was a Belgian. [1947-VAC] Désiré Loiseau asked Lucas if he was Belgian, since he'd known a Lucas at school. He said he thought Albert Rochain's mother was Belgian too, as he himself was. [1947-MOR] Georges Simenon proceeded to demonstrate, with a hint of a Belgian accent, that his versions of M's investigations were more interesting. [1950-MEM] Betty Bruce was an acrobatic dancer at Picratt's. 28. Belgian, from Anderlecht, near Brussels. [1950-PIC] Torrence called from the apartment of Adrienne Laur, 28 bis Rue Brunel. Belgian, born in Antwerp, living in France 5 years. A Folies-Bergère nude.... The proprietess of the Hôtel de Bretagne said Mrs. Perkins had a Belgian accent, probably actually Canadian. [1951-LOG] The Ottrebons, Belgians in high finance, were wintering in Egypt. [1953-TRO] The moment they'd come into Pickwick's Bar, M recognized the barman, Albert Falconi, a Corsican, whom he'd sent to prison at least twice for running an unlicensed gaming house, and once for trafficking in gold with Belgians. [1954-JEU] They had found Ferdinand Fumal's Belgian revolver, which had not been fired for years. [1956-ECH] At the bar they squeezed in between a Brazilian family and some pilots speaking French with a Swiss or Belgian accent.... Why couldn't the Belgian financier tell him himself, since they'd meet in a minute. [1957-VOY] The night of the murder a Belgian barge, the Notre-Dame, making for the flour mills at Corbeil, had been tied up near the house. There'd been a birthday party for the skipper. [1958-TEM] The room next to Martin Duché at the Hôtel de la Reine et de Poitiers, No. 51, was a Belgian traveling in France, and couldn't be found. [1959-CON] Véronique Fabre looked for her father's gun, automatic, flat, bluish, Belgian trademark. Herstal was engraved on it. Possibly a Browning 6.35. [1961-BRA] Another barge was moored above the Pont Marie, De Zwarte Zwaan, a Flemish name that neither M nor Lapointe understood, flying a Belgian flag. [1962-CLO] Mario de Lucia was arrested on the Belgian frontier. [1963-FAN] The frogmen had found the Belgian-made 6.35 automatic in the Seine. M had it sent to Gastinne-Renette. [1966-VOL] Each time M saw the "happy couple" he had the impression the woman was a Belgian. Because of her fair skin, buttercup hair, protruding blue eyes? [1967-VIC] Ferdinand Fauchois had joined the foreign legion saying he was Belgian. [1968-HES] The report from Gastinne-Renette said that the bullet was from an old Belgian make, enormous, 12 mm, very few in existence. [1968-ENF] A Belgian bargeman named Jef Van Roeten was testing the motor of his boat on the Quai de Grenelle, when the wash brought up Gérard Sabin-Levesque's body. [1972-CHA] Belgium. The revolver bore the mark of the Herstal (Belgium) arms factory.... Armand Lecocq d'Arneville had done all kinds of jobs, slept in Les Halles, never tried to get back to Belgium. [1930-31-PHO] Delvigne looked at M with that involuntary deference paid in the provinces - and especially in Belgium - to all who hail from Paris. [1931-GAI] The bargees talked about the canals of Northern France and Belgium, and the electric haulage that was being introduced at many of the locks. [1931-GUI] Maigret had Edgar Martin removed from the Belgium train at Jeumont. [1931-OMB] Anna Peeters explained that the Belgian cigars weren't smuggled, that half the house was in Belgium, half in France. [1932-FLA] Telegrams went out to hospitals in France, Belgium, Germany and Holland to see if any had done the operation on Yves Joris' skull. [1932-POR] Émile Ducrau had put Gassin in charge of one of his boats that went as far as Belgium.... But from this lock, right up to Holland and Belgium, it's Ducrau!" [1933-ECL] When Jehan d'Oulmont had asked permission to return to Belgium it had been granted, for lack of evidence against him. [1936-PEI] As M had suspected, Gérard Pardon had been stopped at the Belgian border, where he had run to with the money he got from his sister Berthe Pardon.... M asked Léopold, the guard, whom he had buzzed to send up Cécile Pardon, what time she'd left. His name wasn't really Léopold, but was so nicknamed because he resembled the former king of Belgium. [1940-CEC] There was still the train for Belgium from the Gare du Nord, and one to Vintimille from the Gare de Lyon. But Vintimille was a long way away. [1948-PRE] A few days after Lorilleux had left the money with Loraine Martin he suggested she cross the frontier into Belgium with him. She promised to join him in Brussels as soon as there was no danger. [1950-NOE] But the Gare du Nord, the coldest, busiest of them all, brought to mind a harsh and bitter struggle for one's daily bread. In the morning, the first night trains, coming from Belgium and Germany, generally contained a number of smugglers. [1950-MEM] M asked Philippe Mortemart why he'd try to run away to Belgium. Said he'd been to Brussels several times. [1950-PIC] Ernestine Jussiaume assumed Alfred Jussiaume was going to take a train to Belgium. [1951-GRA] When Étienne Gouin had gone to Belgium to operate, as he'd gone to the US and India, he stayed in a hotel in Liège where he bought a small automatic. [1953-TRO] Josset & Virieu offices were on Avenue Marceau. Laboratories at Saint-Mondé, and in Switzerland and Belgium. [1959-CON] M asked Justine Cuendet if Honoré Cuendet had ever gone to Switzerland or Belgium or Spain. [1961-PAR] Jef van Houtte said his brother, Hubert van Houtte, had worked in France and Belgium before coming to work for him. [1962-CLO] Jef Claes had fled Belgium in 1940. [1965-PAT] François Ricain told M there wasn't enough money in the wallet to go far away, to Belgium or to Spain. [1966-VOL] Théo Stiernet said he couldn't think of going to Belgium, as he had no money.... When Gilbert Pigou had looked for a job he'd pretended he'd worked in Belgium or Switzerland, as he only spoke French. [1969-VIN] They found numerous postcards signed "Jean" from Léontine Antoine's first husband, Jean de Caramé, from France, Belgium, Switzerland. [1970-FOL] The bargeman, Jef Van Roeten said he wanted to return to Belgium the next day when he'd picked up a cargo of wine at Bercy. [1972-CHA] Belhomme. M called the Financial Section [Brigade financière] and spoke with Superintendent Belhomme. [1965-PAT] Belin. M took his bicycle to the police station at Vitry-le-François, sent a motorcyclist to Épernay with Jean Liberge's prints [fingerprints] to be sent to Paris by Belin telephotograph. [1930-PRO] Belion, Arthur. Julien Chabot told M that Auguste Point had married the daughter of a solicitor, Arthur Belion, whose widow still lived at La Roche-sur-Yon. [1954-MIN] Bellam, Major. Called The Major, sometimes Teddy. 70-72, husky voice, silvery grey hair, rosy complexion, large clear eyes swimming in liquid, huge cigar always: like a cartoon in Punch.The other Englishman on Porquerolles (in addition to Mrs. Ellen Wilcox, who lived there all year round.) He'd lived there 8 years at "the Minaret", his house with a minaret beside it. Bellam drank his champagne in large glasses, like beer glasses. Went to the same school as Pyke. Retired Indian army officer. The Major only drank champagne. A younger son, brother a member of the house of Lords. Never married; in India drank whisky, at Porquerolles, champagne. Bellam was "one of our best polo players," said Pyke. Somewhere, in the Bois de Boulogne or St. Cloud, there was a very aristocratic polo club. [1949-AMI] Bellamy. On a sheet of paper Lucile Duffieux had written her raffle sales records, 1 book apiece to: Malterre, Jongen, Mathis, Bellamy. [1947-VAC] Bellamy, Odette. Odette Bellamy, 25. Her mother was a naval officer's daughter. For 20 years she represented sin to the people of Les Sables-d'Olonne. [1947-VAC] Bellamy, Philippe. One of the players made a phone call at half-past four every day. It was Dr. Philippe Bellamy, whose sister-in-law had died the night before. He lived 300 yards away, in the white house past the Casino, exactly halfway between the casino and the jetty, where the three or four finest houses in town were located. [1947-VAC] Bella Panetti. see: Panetti, Bella Belle-Thérèse. The driver of the truck, Joseph Lecoin, had thought he'd heard cries, and the skipper of the barge Belle-Thérèse had also heard someone shouting for help. [1937-38-NOY] Bellechasse. M asked for M. Bellechasse of Couvreur et Bellechasse. He was in Normandy, so M waited for M. Mauvre, the manager, who was at the bank. [1946-PAU] Belle Emma, La. see: La Belle Emma Belle Étoile, La. see: La Belle Étoile Belle Hélène, La. see: La Belle Hélène Belle Jardinière. The lab man in Bremen told M the man's suit came from the Belle Jardinière in Paris. His shoes had been bought in