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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 C CA  CE  CH  CI  CL  CO  CR  CU  CY  CZ   Cabanis, Rue. The other guests at the Pardons were Professor Tissot and his wife, he the dirctor of Sainte-Anne, the mental hospital on Rue Cabanis. [1955-TEN] Cabélou Point. [Concarneau] The policeman led M out to Cabélou Point, where he'd found the man. There was an old watchtower there, overlooking the Glénan Islands channel. [1931-JAU] Cabourg. Some miles along the coast M could see the houses of Dives, and further on, less clearly, Cabourg, Houlgate, and the cliffs behind which lay Deauville and Trouville. [1932-POR] Cacheux, Mélanie. A housewife, Mélanie Cacheux, who had lived next door to the Lachaumes for 15 years, said she'd seen Léonard Lachaume putting away the Pontiac about 9:00 that night. [1958-TEM] Cadet. Cadet, Catroux's ex-chief had left the Criminal Investigation Department man and set up a detective agency. [1954-MIN] Cadet, Rue. M had Janvier drive him to the corner of the Rue La Fayette and Rue Cadet. [1965-PAT] Cadet, Victor. Diver. Depoil called him to search the canal after the man's arm was found. He lived in the Rue du Chemin-Vert, not far from Police Headquarters, and hardly a month went by without his doing some police diving in the Seine or canals of Paris. A giant of a man. His boat had been downstream -- he brought it up through the lock alongside the quay. His mate was undersized and old, chewed tobacco. [1955-COR] Cadillac. Luigi said boxers who made it and didn't spend all their money on platinum blondes and Cadillacs wound up opening a restaurant or sporting goods shop. [1951-LOG] The small police car was parked between a Rolls Royce and a Cadillac. [1957-VOY] The Cadillac was Christine Josset's car. Was parked in front of the house when Adrien Josset returned home. [1959-CON] Émile Parendon's car was a Cadillac. His wife used it more than she did, though she had a little English car of her own. [1968-HES] Cadran. Someone at the menagerie told M to look for Mimile at the Cadran, or Léon's. [1945-FAC] M asked if Albert Rochain hadn't worked near the Gare du Nord. They said he'd been a waiter at the Cadran, for 10 or 12 years before setting up on his own. [1947-MOR] Cadum, Baby. François Lagrange's nickname at school, Lycée Henri IV, after the monster baby in the soap advertisements on all the streets at the time. [1952-REV] Caen. "Ernst Strowitz, sentenced in absentia by the Court of Caen for the murder of a farmer's wife on the Bénouville road..." M read from a wanted list in a police journal on his desk. [1931-OMB] Another stop, at Caen. The next would be Ouistreham, a village of a thousand or so inhabitants.... Most of the steamers were on a regular run, bringing coal from England and ore from Caen. [1932-POR] It was at Caen, where M had been sent to reorganize the Flying Squad. He was not yet used to the harsh and secretive atmosphere of provincial life, and felt less at ease than in his office at the Quai des Orfèvres. [1937-38-BAY] Picard had been a packer in a shoe factory at Caen. [1941-SIG] Arlette's aunt said she knew someone in Caen who'd seen Arlette going in to Dr. Potut's, the delivery doctor. On the road from Lisieux to Caen, the château on the right was the Trochain family estate. [1950-PIC] Prince Philippe de V-- was Isabelle de V--'s son, about 45. He married Irène de Marchangy, and lived nearly all year round in his château at Genestoux, near Caen, where he owned a stud and several farms, five or six children. [1960-VIE] Caesar. Félicie spoke like a queen bestowing a favor, while she, like Caesar's wife, was above suspicion. [1942-FEL] Café Arthur. Thérèse got a call from Marcel Airaud, in Marans, from the Café Arthur. [1940-JUG] Café de Birague. An hour later a waiter from the Café de Birague called from the Rue de Birague. [1947-MOR] Café de Flore. Philippe de Moricourt frequented the Café de Flore when he lived in Paris. [1949-AMI] Café de la Bourse. [Liège] M received an anonymous note, typed on ordinary paper, arranging to meet him at the Café de la Bourse, behind the Théâtre Royal. [1930-31-PHO] Café de la Gare. [Caen] The call that came in to the mayor, Ernest Grandmaison's house was from Caen, Café de la Gare, #122. Delcourt said it was 8 miles to Caen. [1932-POR] Café de la Mairie. Gérard Piedboeuf spent a lot of time playing billiards in the Café de la Mairie. [1932-FLA] Café de la Marine. At 7:20 the Providence was moored in front of the Café de la Marine, behind the Éco III. [1930-PRO] Café de l'Amiral. see: Admiral Café Café de la Paix. Jean, the proprieter at the Brasserie des Artistes, said he'd been a barman at the Café de la Paix in Monte Carlo before Cannes. [1939-MAJ] Café de la Poste. After the bridge, they passed the windows of the Café de la Poste.... The Café de la Poste had already set out it chairs and little yellow tables on the terrace. [1953-PEU] [Fontenay]. M talked to Pecqueur at the Café de la Poste, by an empty billiard table. [1959-CON] Café de Madrid. The girl [Berthe] asked M to meet her in the Café de Madrid.... As he sat there, the Grands Boulevards were bathed in bright spring sunshine. [1937-38-BER] Café de Paris. [Rheims] A call came in from Rheims, where Émile, the proprieter of the Café de Paris, Rue Carnot, said he'd seen Louis Jeunet six days before. [1930-31-PHO] Outside the Café de Paris [Moulins] M could hear billiard balls colliding. A sign on the wall: cocktails, 6 francs. [1932-FIA] [Monte Carlo] M could hear the music on the Café de Paris across the street. [1957-VOY] Café des Amis. René Lussac drove to a café at the Porte de Versailles, the Café des Amis, a quiet place, where people came to play belote, as he did with the two men waiting for him. [1961-PAR] One of the men in Antoine Batille's recording. Said Lucien and Gouvion were taking turns. Recorded at Café des Amis, Place de la Bastille. [1969-TUE] Café des Macaîchers. Gassin had been writing a letter to his sister: Mme. Emma Chatereau, Café des Maraîchers, Lazicourt (Haute-Marne). [1933-ECL] Café des Mariniers. News had just come in to the Café des Mariniers from Ponts-et-Chaussées that the river was open down to Maestricht. [1932-FLA] Café des Ministères. On May 3, in the Café des Ministères, on the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue des Saints-Pères, a customer, Raymond Auger, stayed for 16 hours. Double door onto the Boulevard Saint-Germain, smaller one opening onto the Rue des Saints-Pères. [1946-OBS] Café des Sports. Joseph Mascouvin went to the Café des Sports at the corner of Place de la République and Boulevard Voltaire, where he had asked Nestor, the waiter, for some writing paper, and found the message, "tomorrow afternoon at five, I will kill the fortuneteller. Picpus." [1941-SIG] Café du Centre. M asked Mme M to locate Besson, who might be at the Café du Centre, playing billiards with Thiberge. [1946-CHO] Café du Cheval Blanc. Nine days ago M had been sitting in his usual place in the Café du Cheval Blanc in Meung. [Meung-sur-Loire]. M was playing belote. [1946-NEW] Café du Commerce. Café in the Hôtel du Commerce where Émile Gallet's son had had lunch. [1930-GAL] [Fontenay]. Justin Cavre had gone to Fontenay-le-Comte, exactly 13 miles from Saint-Aubin-les-Marais. He stopped at the Café du Commerce, on Rue de la République, and met a man. [1943-CAD] Café Français. M was playing billiards in the Café Français, Luçon, with M. Le Flem, the proprieter. [1940-JUG] Café Glacier. M and Boutigues stopped at the Café Glacier, Place Macé, in the center of Antibes. A charming square with a garden in the middle, cream- or orange-colored awnings at every house. [1932-LIB] Café Solférino. The second tailor was Polish, on the Rue Vaneau. He'd made a suit for Marcel Moncin, who lived at 228 bis Boulevard Saint-Germain, near the Solférino métro station. He called M from the Café Solférino. [1955-TEN] cage. The cage was M's name for the glass-walled waiting room with its velvet armchairs. [1952-BAN] Cageot, Germain. M called out to Godet, an inspector in the Public Morals Department playing cards three tables away. M asked him if Germain Cageot was in the office that morning. He had been, about 11:00.... Philippe Lauer had copied out Germain Cageot's record. Born in Pontoise, about 59. First appearance at Lyons, a year for forgery. Later six months for fraud in Marseilles. A few years later in Monte Carlo as a croupier, and since then acted as a police informer. In Paris for 5 years he was manager of the Cercle de l'Est, a gambling den. Lives in the Rue des Batignolles, looked after by the concierge. Regularly visits the Quai des Orfèvres and Rue des Saussaies.... Germain Cageot had a long dead face and bushy eyebrows the color of gray mold.... Germain Cageot was given a life sentence. [1934-MAI] Cagnes. Rosalie Moncoeur said she planned to settle down in a little place she'd bought in Cagnes. [1950-PIC] Caille. M. Caille had the bird store on the first floor of Léontine Antoine's building. Had lived there since he was 10. Father owned the shop before him. [1970-FOL] Caille, La. see: La Caille Cain and Abel. Pietr babbled to M about Cain and Abel, Catholics and Protestants. [1929-30-LET] Caire, Rue du. Jo Mori and Manuel Mori had a wholesale fruit and vegetable business on the Rue du Caire. [1971-IND] Cairo. Joséphine Beausoleil said she'd had her first daughter, now Germaine Rivaud, in Cairo. Her father was an English officer. [1932-FOU] Eugène Labri was not an old offender. He was a Frenchman, born in Cairo or Port Said, about 45, fat, with dark brilliant eyes, obsequious. [1936-ERR] M reminded Jean Ramuel of his work in Cairo, Ecuador. [1939-MAJ] Count Hans von Farnheim took the Countess to Constantiniple and Cairo, then a few weeks on the Champs-Élysées. [1950-PIC] When Germaine Laboine was around 30, before the war, she made her round of Near East clubs, Bucharest, Sofia, Alexandria. Several years in Cairo, even Abyssinia. [1954-JEU] Colombani checked the flights. 315 for London; Stuttgart; Cairo, Beirut... P Potteret; New York by Pan American, Pittsburg... Piroulet... no Louise Paverini.... The huge American was wearing cowboy boots, probably from Texas or Arizona. The bartender said he owned oil wells, was leaving tomorrow for Cairo and Saudi Arabia. [1957-VOY] Cajou. M recognized Cajou, the Examining Magistrate, a dark-haired man in his early 40s, that he'd seldom worked with him. [1961-PAR] Cajou, Nicolas. Nicolas Cajou, manager of a small hotel on Rue Victor-Massé, around the corner from Place Pigalle, recognized Ginette Meurant's photo. He'd been convalescing in Morvan, where his family came from.... Nicolas Cajou, 62, born in Marillac in the Cantal, took the stand. [1959-ASS] Calais. In the letter she said was from Albert Marcinelle, he said he was in Calais, and wanted to cross the frontier. He said he'd put an ad in the Intransigeant. [1937-38-BER] Habor Police at Calais found Jeanne Debul's name on the passenger list: Daumas, Dazergues, ... Jeanne Debul. Staying at Savoy Hotel in London. [1952-REV] Calame. Mme. Mme. Calame still lived in the Boulevard Raspail apartment where she had lived with her husband, Julien Calame. [1954-MIN] Calame, Julien. Calame had been a professor of applied mechanics and civil architecture at the National School of Civil Engineering. Died of cancer two years earlier. Called as a consultant for large projects in countries as different as Japan and South America. Wrote "The Diseases of Concrete". [1954-MIN] Calame report. The Rumor asked "When will the contents of the Calame report be revealed?" Jules Piquemal brought a carbon copy, about 40 pages, to Auguste Point, which disappeared soon after. "Report concerning the construction of a sanatarium at Clairfond in Haute-Savoie". Julien Calame was against the construction, and in fact foretold the disaster in his report. [1954-MIN] Calas. The Public Prosecutor was accompanied by a young Examining Magistrate with whom M hadn't previously worked, Calas, who looked like a student. [1957-VOY] Calas, Aline. 41, thin, sullen-faced, dark, almost black hair, from Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. Her husband, Omer Calas, went once or twice a year to Poitiers. They had lived in the Chez Calas café for 24 years. They'd left Boissancourt when she was 17, six months pregnant, and had never been back. They were married in the Town Hall in the 10th Arondissement, 16 or 17 years earlier, though they'd been living together 24 years. One daughter, Lucette Calas, 24. [1955-COR] Calas, Julien. Grocer listed as a telephone subscriber at Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. [1955-COR] Calas, Lucette. 24. Omer Calas and Aline Calas' daughter who left home at 15. She had a room above a grocer's shop on the Rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile, 3rd floor, left-hand side, Ile Saint-Louis. Assistant to a surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu, Professor Lavaud, whom she planned to marry. [1955-COR] Calas, Omer. 47. Proprieter of Chez Calas, the murdered man whose dismembered body without a head had been recovered from the Saint Martin Canal. Had been a servant at the Boissancourt Château for four years. Father was a drunken laborer, a real bum. Got Aline Calas pregnant, but had married the butcher's daughter, who was also pregnant. Ran away with Aline. His wife eventually hanged herself. His sister married a policeman in Gien. He came to Saint-André to see Canonge, had apparently found his card in Aline's apron. Left the lawyer's, caught the bus to Montargis, then the train to Paris. Probably arrived at Gare d'Austerlitz just after 3:00. [1955-COR] Calas, Robert. Cattle dealer listed as a telephone subscriber at Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. [1955-COR] California. Mortimer-Levingston was sometimes a judge at boxing matches in New York and California. [1929-30-LET] During the last few months John Maura had travelled constantly, from Mexico to California, California to Canada... [1946-NEW] He was spending a few days in Arizona on his way to California. [1949-CHE] Californie, La. see: La Californie Cambodian. A Cambodian student said he'd seen Fouad Ouéni sitting in the corner from eleven o'clock that evening. [1966-NAH] Cambon, Rue. Ed Gollan said he used the Rue Cambon entrance to the Ritz when he returned. [1963-FAN] Cambrai. M. Mauvre said Maurice Tremblet had worked for them till about seven years before, when their Cambrai branch was modernized. [1946-PAU] Loraine Martin had told the luggage shop she was leaving for Cambrai to visit a sick sister, and needed a cheap suitcase. [1950-NOE] Cambrai, Rue de. Lucas had found a box with Louise Filon's birth certificate: Louise Marie Josephine Filon, born in Paris, 18th, daughter of Louis Filon, tripe seller, Rue de Cambrai, near the slaughter houses of La Villette, and Philippine Le Flem, washerwoman. [1953-TRO] Cambridge. M thought of Harry Brown, that he must have gone to Oxford or Cambridge, while he himself had gone to the Lycée Stanislas. [1932-LIB] David Ward's son Bobby Ward, 18, at Cambridge, by his second wife.... M thought that John Arnold had probably been to Eton and Cambridge. [1957-VOY] Camel. Ward said he'd found a Camel in his pocket, but he usually always smoked Chesterfields. [1949-CHE] Campagne-Première, Rue. Émile Paulus and Jef Van Damme robbed a small nightclub, "The Stork" in the Rue Campagne-Première, in Montparnasse, just as it was closing... The Press called Paulus the "gangster of the Rue Campagne-Première". [1951-MEU] Campagnie Fermière. The Examining Magistrate in the bank robbery case Lecoeur was working on in Clermont-Ferrand was connected with the Campagnie Fermière, and they didn't like the publicity. [1967-VIC] Campine, Rue de. The telegram from Antwerp: Isaac Goldberg, 45. Traveled weekly to Amsterdam, London, Paris. Rue de Campine, Borgerhout. married, two children. [1931-NUI] Campois, Désiré. Old Désiré Campois had been invited for lunch at Ernest Malik's as well.... 77. Had been living on the Île Saint-Louis at the time his son died. The Amorelles were already in Orsenne.... Had come to Paris at the age of 18 from his native Dauphiné. Worked for a building contractor in the Vaugirard district, then an architect, finally a contractor at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, where he met Amorelle. [1945-FAC] Campois, Roger. Son of Désiré Campois. Had shot himself in the head in a hotel bedroom in the Boulevard Saint-Michel, at age 22. Had suffered heavy gambling losses in the Latin Quarter. [1945-FAC] Camus. M found a note on his desk asking him to call Camus, the Examining Magistrate in the Sophie Ricain murder. He had seldom worked with him, neither classing him with the meddlers, nor with those who left him alone. [1966-VOL] Camuzet. Doctor listed as a telephone subscriber at Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. Canonge said that "Old Doctor Petrelle" used to talk about Aline Calas, but he had died, and was replaced by Camuzet, who never knew her. [1955-COR] Canada. M met P'tit Louis who had a pair of rubber boots he wanted to sell. He said they made much better ones in Canada. [1931-REN] During the last few months John Maura had travelled constantly, from Mexico to California, California to Canada... [1946-NEW] Antoinette Ollivier said she mainly talked about their nephew François, who'd been ordained a year ago, and was about to go to the north of Canada as a missionary.... Pierrot [Pierre Eyraud] said if Lulu [Louise Filon] would come with him they could have gone to Canada or South America. [1953-TRO] Mrs. Muriel Britt, the old Englishwoman, had chosen to disappear. She'd come to Paris with 52 others, a group the travel agents assemble in England, America, Canada or elsewhere, and take to Paris for a week. [1956-ECH] The furrier said that in cold countries, Canada, Sweden, Norway, the north of the US, wild-cat coats were still sometimes worn. [1961-PAR] Canadian. They brought back childhood memories, like illustrations in the books of James Fenimore Cooper and Jules Verne. They could as easily have been Canadian trappers or castaways on a desert island. [1940-JUG] All the clothes in the suitcases in Mado's room were from Montreal shops. There were Canadian stickers on the luggage. [1951-LOG] Canal. Lapointe said he was about a mile and a half beyond Chelles, between the Canal and the Marne. ... He said it would take M only about half an hour to get there by car. [1959-ASS] Canal Saint-Martin. see: Saint-Martin Canal Canange, Louis. Catroux suggested Louis Canange as a bounced Criminal Investigation Department man who'd set up a detective agency. Cadet, who was his chief. Then he hit the right one, a bad one, Eugène Benoît, opened a small private office on Boulevard Saint-Martin, on the ground floor over a watchmaker. [1954-MIN] Canary. Line Marcia said she'd been a dancer at the Canary, had met Maurice Marcia at the Sardine, had been married four years. [1971-IND] Canebière. Once when M was getting on to 50, on the Canebière in Marseilles, he ran into Félix Jubert again at a pharmacy. [1950-MEM] Canelle, Hortense. The wife of the bargee of the Providence. Plump, buxom, from Brussels, spoke with a musical accent, like of the south of France. Asked at the hospital if she could bring Jean Liberge some Spanish grapes or champagne. [1930-PRO] Cannes. Mortimer-Levingston led an exhausting life, putting in regular appearances at Deauville, Miami, the Lido, Paris, Cannes and Berlin... [1929-30-LET] M found a postcard from Louise in Cannes to Emma. [1931-JAU] Génaro, proprieter of the Gai-Moulin who had worked in bars and hotels at Cannes, Nice, Biarritz and Paris. [1931-GAI] Gina Martini and her mother were spotted heading towards the station at Golfe-Juan, a couple of miles from Cap d'Antibes towards Cannes.... M recited his lesson to himself: Nice on the left, 15 miles; Cannes on the right, less than 7.... William Brown kept his car in a garage in Cannes when he went off once a month to get his money. [1932-LIB] The unruffled surface of the Mediterranean such as one can only discover from the grand hotels of Cannes, far off, the islands of Lérins. [1938-OWE] Prosper Donge, 45-48, tall, carroty red hair, blue eyes, pock-marked face. Had been at the Majestic five years, before that the Miramar in Cannes.... M rushed to the telephone exchange. Charlotte had just put through a call to Jean at the Brasserie des Artistes in Cannes, Cannes 18-43. M listened in.... Étienne Jolivet said Prosper Donge's account had been transferred from Cannes.... Prosper Donge said he'd been a waiter in Marseilles, Cannes. At the Miramar, they'd switched him from waiter to breakfast cook.... There was mimosa everywhere, under a brilliant July 14 sun. He asked a policeman why all the bands were there: The Battle of Flowers [le grand Corso fleuri] at Cannes. [1939-MAJ] Marie Picard had told Picard that someone from Cannes had recognized him in Paris, someone who came up once a week, in fact, Justin of Toulon, who killed her.... An elderly tramp walking along the quays of Cannes, with a striking resemblence to Octave Le Cloaguen. [1941-SIG] M tried to think of the Nines he'd known. He knew one a few years earlier, who'd kept a small bar at Cannes, but she'd been elderly in those days and was no doubt dead by now. [1947-MOR] M hardly knew the Midi. Was on a case there once at Antibes and Cannes. M couldn't remember if mimosa had been in bloom at the time of the case he had conducted at Antibes and Cannes a few years before. ...the smell was like a small bar in Cannes, kept by a fat woman, where he had once been on a case and idled away many hours. ... Philippe de Moricourt had met Mrs. Ellen Wilcox at Casino at Cannes a little over a year earlier. [1949-AMI] Valentine Besson and her husband traveled to Cannes and Nice, then London, Scotland, Turkey and Egypt. [1949-DAM] Countess Panetti lived all over - Paris, Cannes, Egypt, Vichy... M told Fernande Steuvals that the Countess Panetti might be spending the carnival season in Cannes or Nice as easily as she might have been killed. [1949-MME] For a few months the Countess von Farnheim and her husband were seen going to the casinos at Monte Carlo, Cannes, and Juan-les-Pins In the Countess von Farnheim's room they found casino cards from Nice and Cannes. [1950-PIC] The Pernod brought back to M the memory of the south of France, particularly of a little dive in Cannes, where he'd once been on a case. [1951-GRA] Roger Gaillardin's wife was calling from Cannes for details on her husband's death. She said she'd return to Paris by the Mistral. [1956-ECH] Philippe Jave and his wife, daughter and the child's nurse, Mlle. Claire Jusserand, left for a six-weeks stay in Cannes, where they'd rented the Villa Marie-Thérèse. [1956-AMU] John Arnold said most people thought David Ward did nothing but enjoy himself at Deauville, Cannes, Lausanne or Rome. [1957-VOY] Sooner or later, Police Headquarters would be rung up by some famous person just returned from Hollywood, London, Rome or Cannes, to find their flat had been broken into, the refrigerator empty. [1958-TEM] Olga said she'd been living in the Hôtel Lambert since she'd come back from Cannes - she always did Cannes in the summer.... René Lussac's wife said he wanted a little shop in Cannes or Nice. [1961-PAR] Antoinette Lesourd, called Sylvie, had met Léonard Planchon at a brasserie on the Rue Lepic. Had been married, and had a daughter. In the summer she'd worked in Cannes, because the American fleet had been in. [1962-CLI] Lapointe had found the red Peugeot. There weren't so many in Paris, and one was in Cannes with its owner. [1962-CLO] Jean-Charles Gaillard's secretary, Lucette, said there'd been a call from Cannes. [1962-COL] Stanley Hobson had been arrested on a tip from Scotland Yard, in connection with jewel thefts in Antibes and Cannes. [1963-FAN] James Stuart made frequent visits to Cannes, Monte Carlo, Deauville, Biarritz and the Swiss resorts in the winter. [1965-PAT] Évelina Nahour's children, the girl 5, boy 2, lived in Mougins, Pension des Palmiers. The boy was born in Cannes. [1966-NAH] Bob Mandille guessed Walter Carus had been at Enghien if he hadn't been in Paris. Said Nora was a great gambler, and that last year at Cannes she'd lost heavily. [1966-VOL] A count with a château in Normandy and a racing stable, whose widow lived in Cannes, had been one of the customers for the Morvan Vellum paper. [1968-HES] Not only the most elegant leather shop in Paris, but there were branches in Cannes, Deauville, London, New York and Miami. [1969-TUE] Jeanne Chabut said they had a weekend house at Sully-sur-Loire, and a summer place at Cannes, the top two floors of a new building not far from Long Beach. [1969-VIN] Boutang said the cream of the gangsters of Toulon, Marseilles, Cannes, Nice were there. [1971-IND] Gérard Sabin-Levesque had been left a large villa near Cannes. [1972-CHA] Canon. Grégoire Brau, known as Patience, also as the Canon, had been at his game for years without ever being caught in the act. [1958-TEM] Canon de la Bastille. Gérard Pardon said he'd spent the afternoon at a café, the Canon de la Bastille. [1940-CEC] The waiter from the Café de Birague said the man [Albert Rochain] had said he would try to get to the Canon de la Bastille, a brasserie at the corner of the Boulevard Henri-IV. M went there himself. It was a big quiet place, chiefly frequented by regular customers eating the plat du jour or cold meat. He waited, ordered a choucroute. [1947-MOR] Canonge. Notary at Saint-André, about 60, fine-looking, well-built, grey hair; brown suit and overcoat, pigskin suitcase, more like a gentleman farmer than a country lawyer. When M had checked the phone listings, Omer Calas' brother suggested calling him for information. Mme Canonge answered and said that Canonge had taken the 8:22 train to Paris to see M. He arrived at Gare d'Austerlitz at 12:22, where M met him. He stayed at the Hôtel d'Orsay, as the train, until recently, had gone to the Gare d'Orsay. His father had practiced law in Saint-André, and had known Honoré de Boissancourt, at that time called Christophe Dupré, the son of a tenant farmer whose landlord was the former owner of the château. Canonge put a notice in the papers searching for Aline Calas when de Boissancourt died. His house in Place de l'Église was just opposite Omer Calas' brother's grocery store. A trucker from Zenith Transport, delivering a gun to Canonge from Paris, had noticed the name. [1955-COR] Cantal. Mme M thought she remembered that the village he'd mentioned had been in the Cantal, but he said it was Cher. [1937-38-MAN] Maurice Tremblet was originally from Cantal, where they'd returned for two weeks every year on vacation. His wife Juliette Tremblet's maiden name was Juliette Lapointe, and she was also from Cantal. [1946-PAU] Police Commissioner called the Minister of Interior to tell him of André Delteil's death. The Minister was a native of Cantal, who had kept his rough local accent and style of speech. [1952-REV] Tissot said he was from Cantal, his father, 88, still on the farm. [1955-TEN] Nicolas Cajou, 62, born in Marillac in the Cantal, took the stand. [1959-ASS] Superintendent Grosjean was a native of Cantal, with a flavorful accent. [1969-TUE] Canut. Wife of the gardener at Tiburce de Saint-Hilaire's. A large, worthy-looking body. Said she'd seen Émile Gallet with M. Tiburce. Saw them in the morning around 11:00 walking in the park. In the afternoon saw them in the drawing room of Tiburce's. [1930-GAL] Canut, Jean-Marie Canut's father, was short and broad-shouldered, a real Nordic sea-faring type. [1931-REN] On Jan. 14, the day before the sale, there'd been two extra guests at the inn. Borchain, from near Angoulême, and Canut, from Saint-Jean-d'Angély. [1939-VEN] Canut, Baptiste. Gardener at Tiburce de Saint-Hilaire's. drooping mustache. [1930-GAL] Canut, Jean-Marie. Jean-Marie Canut, 15, a cabin-boy who didn't want to go, howled and wept, was swept overboard by a wave on the third day. [1931-REN] Cap-Ferrat. Boutigues had learned that Harry Brown had a mistress at the Hôtel du Cap at Cap-Ferrat, between Nice and Monte Carlo. [1932-LIB] Stuart Wilton rented a villa at Cap d'Antibes or Cap-Ferrat in the summer, and belonged to several clubs. [1961-PAR] Cap d'Antibes. The horse trotted along the seashore. Boutigues told M from there on it was the Cap d'Antibes, nothing but villas... [1932-LIB] Stuart Wilton rented a villa at Cap d'Antibes or Cap-Ferrat in the summer, and belonged to several clubs. [1961-PAR] Philippe Lherbier had an even larger villa on the Cap d'Antibes, also called the Golden Crown. His yacht was also called the Golden Crown. [1969-TUE] Cape Horn. Jules Lapie, who in those days still had two legs, was bound for Cape Horn. [1942-FEL] Capgras. M brought home a psychiatric text from the Director's office, which included a section on Adler's opinion on neurosis. Also Kraepelin and Capgras were mentioned. [1957-SCR] Cap, Hôtel du. see: Hôtel du Cap Capitol. M said to imagine Broadway, the second street after the movie house called the Capitol. [1946-NEW] Caporal. In Victor Poliensky's pockets were a pakage of Caporal cigarettes and a German-made lighter. [1947-MOR] Marinette Augier smoked American cigarettes, while the ones in the ashtray in the living room were all Caporals. [1963-FAN] Capri. Porquerolles was "supposed to be as beautiful as Capri and the Greek isles." [1949-AMI] The photograph showed the Count Hans von Farnheim, a dry little man with a little white beard and a monocle. 65 when he married on Capri, three years before the photograph. He bought the Oasis right after their return from Italy. [1950-PIC] Capucines, Boulevard des. Feinstein had started with a small shop in the Avenue de Clichy. Then, a year after his marriage, he'd taken over a going concern in the Boulevard des Capucines.T [1931-GUI] Capucines, Boulevard des. Edgar Fagonet had worked as an usher at the Imperia movie house on the Boulevard des Capucines. [1939-MAJ] The man's shoes came from the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. [1940-JUG] Éveline Jave had traveled from Orly to Paris by the Air France bus, which had left her at the Boulevard des Capucines. [1956-AMU] The Madeleine, Boulevard des Capucines, another uniformed attendant at the Hôtel Scribe. John Arnold's suite was 551. [1957-VOY] 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. [1967-VIC] Capucines, Rue des. As they were crossing the Rue Royale, returning to headquarters, M changed his mind, and told the driver to go to the Rue des Capucines, Manhattan Bar.... When M was crossing the Place de la Concorde, he told the driver to go through Rue des Capucines, where he wanted to call in to the Quai des Orfèvres. [1951-LOG] car. The man had bought a yellow touring car, number W, like all cars for sale.. He'd asked for information about the road to Paris via Lisieux and Evreux. [1932-POR] What would Harry Cole have thought if he had learned that M had never learned to drive? [1949-CHE] Janvier used one of the little black P.J. cars. [1953-TRO] Adrien Josset had an English 2-seater, his wife an American car, a Cadillac.... An anonymous letter Christine Josset had bought Popaul a little car, a quatre-chevaux, but he still beat her up from time to time. M never found him. [1959-CON] When M had been a young clerk there was no question of affording a car.... It was too late for him to learn to drive.... But it would be pleasant to drive to their cottage at Meung-sur-Loire on Sundays. [1966-VOL] M said that not only had Mme M passed her test, they'd actually bought a small car. [1967-VIC] M was in charge while they were in Paris. Janvier was at the wheel, fat Lourtie in the back. The car was fitted with a radio transmitter and receiver. About 50 yards away Superintendent Grosjean and his 3 men were in a similar car.... Émile Branchu's car was a green 6 CV. [1969-TUE] Sometimes they went out in the car, with Mme M at the wheel, but on the whole she prefered not to drive on Sunday, especially on the busy roads out of Paris. [1970-FOL] Lapointe or Janvier drove M everywhere. He had never sat behind the wheel of a car in his life. He had bought a car recently to go to his little house in Meung-sur-Loire on a Saturday evening or Sunday morning, but it was Mme M who did all the driving.... [1972-CHA] Caracci. or: Caracinni. (M always had to check on which). short, Corsican head, black moustache, enormous yellow diamond ring, high heels. In the opening chapter of AMI, he was being interrogated by M, in the presence of Inspector Pyke, about his witnessing a shooting in front of his club in the Rue Fontaine by a man who leapt from a gray sportscar, dashed into the club, and shot the barman. He insists on referring to M as officer (mon commissaire). Janvier and Torrence were among the inspectors who interrogated Caracci. Lucas was called by M to continue the interrogation. Normally it would have been a case for Chief Inspector Priollet, chief of the vice squad. Caracci suggests that M ask him about how "he has always gone straight." Priollet was in the Jura at the funeral of a relative, and so M was handling the case. He doesn't appear again in the story. [1949-AMI] Caramé, Jean de. Léontine Antoine's first husband. She liked to be known as Léontine Antoine de Caramé. 8B Quai de la Mégisserie. Jean de Caramé was a Council Clerk, local government. Died of a heart attack at 45.... Behind his back, his fellow workers called him "His Majesty". Had been promised the Legion of Honor, and looked forward to it. Brother was a Colonel, killed in Indo-China. [1970-FOL] Caramé, Léontine Antoine de. see: Antoine, Léontine Carcassonne. Mme. Michonnet said her brother-in-law was a justice of the peace at Carcassonne. [1931-NUI] The station staff remembered Hélène Lange had gone to Strasbourg, Brest, Carcassonne, Dieppe, Lyon, Nancy, Montélimar, always a fairly large town. [1967-VIC] Carl. Carl was the manservant at Norris Jonker's. Jonker told Chinquier he'd heard about the shooting from him. Was the son of one of Jonker's tenant farmers. [1963-FAN] Carl Anderson. see: Anderson, Carl Carl Lipschitz. see: Lipschitz, Carl Carlotta. Spanish housemaid at the Jossets', slept in. About 30, quite pretty, with a cheeky look, but thin, hard lips, was being interviewed by Torrence. [1959-CON] Carlsberg. M asked for a beer. The bartender, "Carlsberg, Heineken?" [1966-NAH] Carl Spangler. see: Spangler, Carl Carlton. Along the Croisette [Boulevard de la Croisette], only a hundred yards away, were the luxury hotel: the Carlton, the Miramar, the Martinez... [1939-MAJ] [Cannes] David Ward had a suite at the Hôtel George-V, one in London, another at the Carlton in Cannes, all rented by the year. [1957-VOY] Carlton Bridge Club. Mme. Vireveau spent the evening at the Carlton Bridge Club. Said she almost bumped into a man at the corner of Boulevard de LaSalle and Rue du Bourbonnais, tall and heavily built. [1967-VIC] Carl Wienand. see: Wienand, Carl Carmen. Besson said that Justin Minard's wife was very dark, firm skin, flashing eyes... a kind of Carmen. [1948-PRE] While they were courting, M had taken Mme M to the Opera-Comique, where they were doing Carmen. [1957-SCR] Carnival. Féret said the weather [in Nice] was grand, the town packed with foreigners who'd come for the Carnival. The bataille des fleurs [Battle of Flowers] was the next day. [1954-JEU] Carnot. The phone number at Louise Filon's was Carnot 22-35. The call came from a bistro on the corner of the Boulevard Rochechouart and Rue Riquet, Chez Léon. [1953-TRO] Carnot, Avenue. Dupeu said he'd got a call from the charwoman at the Avenue Carnot, almost next door. She'd found the body of Louise Filon, probably a murder. [1953-TRO] Carnot, Quai. Down in Brittany, the little troupe had invaded the Hôtel de l'Amiral, in the Quai Carnot, which M knew through having in the past once conducted a case there which had caused quite a stir. [1956-AMU] Carnot, Rue. [Rheims] A call came in from Rheims, where Émile, the proprieter of the Café de Paris, Rue Carnot, said he'd seen Louis Jeunet six days before. [1930-31-PHO] Carola. Spanish maid, cook, housekeeper at François Mélan's. [1964-DEF] Caroline. M asked Philippe Deligeard if he intended to go to Caroline's funeral. [1937-38-BAY] Caroline Reboux. Mme M said she'd have felt silly trying on hats at Caroline Reboux or Rose Valois, pretending to be a customer. [1949-MME] Caroon Mortuary. Last night he had noticed the neon sign, Caroon Mortuary, in front of the handsome Colonial mansion with a well-kept lawn. M had mentioned that in France they buried people without cleaning them out like fish or chickens. [1949-CHE] Carpentras. M said both of them might just as well have dropped dead in Paris or Carpentras. [1946-NEW] Carré. [Liège] The town was at its busiest in the rectangle of streets called the Carré, where the luxury stores, the large brasserie, the cinemas and dance halls were. [1930-31-PHO] Carreau du Temple. The garments the man wore suggested they'd been bought in the Carreau du Temple, or in some junk shop. [1937-38-AMO] Carrière. The head lock-keeper at Suresnes said De Zwarte Zwaan should have been at Juziers, or at any rate beyond Poissy, depending on how long they'd had to wait at the locks at Bougival and Carrière. [1962-CLO] Carrières, Quai des. 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. [1933-ECL] Carrossoc. Walter Carus' company name was Carrossoc, with reception rooms on the first floor. [1966-VOL] Cartier. Mme. Parendon had a gold lighter as M had seen in Cartier's window. [1968-HES] Cartier. The alarm clock was gold, and came from Cartier. [1957-VOY] Carus, Walter. Walter Carus was a movie producer, lived in a suite in the Raphael Hotel, office at 18b Rue de Bassano, off the Champs-Élysées. Had financed 3 or 4 films, German and Italian co-productions. About 40. Lived with Nora. Half English, half Turkish. Had a wife in London who wouldn't divorce him. [1966-VOL] Carvet, Nicole. Nicole Prieur had told M her name was Nicole Carvet. [1964-DEF] Casablanca. Colombani said the Casablanca plane had been an hour and a half late. [1957-VOY] Cascourant de Nemours. Mme. Came to visit Mme. Antoinette Le Cloaguen at the time she was being arrested, with her son, Germain, who would possibly have married Gisèle Le Cloaguen. [1941-SIG] Cascourant de Nemours, Germain. Mme. came to visit Mme. Antoinette Le Cloaguen at the time she was being arrested, with her son, Germain, who would possibly have married Gisèle Le Cloaguen. [1941-SIG] case. It was during the summer vacation period. M was sent off on a case in Deauville. For a month he was rounding up a gang of international crooks. [1930-31-TET] The house reminded M of Holland. His thoughts ran back to the case which had taken him to Delfzijl. [1932-FLA] M had made it a practice ever since the Radek case, during which he'd found himself without a pipe just when he needed one, to carry two or three pipes. [1932-LIB] M recovered the pulse of that slow, powerful rhythm so well known to him from a crime he had once investigated on the Upper Marne. [1933-ECL] One, a former lawyer who had tragically turned to crime, had been so crafty M had more than once to leave his room to hide his fury. [1937-38-ETO] Adine Hulot said her husband, Justin Hulot, had been customs officer at Concarneau when he was there on a case. He had a face that was hard to forget.... M's mind was back in the days of the Bonnot case, when he had been thin, and had sported a waxed mustache and a little pointed beard, and worn four-inch-high starched collars and a top hat. Xavier Guichard, Chief Superintendent at the time, before he became Chief Commissioner of the Police Judiciaire, had said "all this talk of flair -- is just a publicity stunt... what really matters is evidence." [1940-JUG] M's Chief, with whom he had already worked on the Bonnot affair, was about to introduce him to someone... M asked if Coudray weren't at the edge of the Seine, a little beyond Corbeil. He knew the area vaguely, for a few years ago he was involved with a murder at the lock at La Citanguette. [1942-MEN] M could see the Rue Lepic, the steep little street, the pushcarts piled high with fruit and vegetables, the housewives in their down at heel slippers, the colorful hubub of Place Blanche, and, wedged between two small shops, the Hôtel Beauséjour, which he had had occasion to visit in the course of duty more than once in the past. [1942-FEL] The doctor said he remembered that M had solved the Landru case, one that M had had nothing to do with. [1943-CAD] M had once conducted an inquiry in Upper Seine, and all day long seen strings of boats with the Amorelle and Campois green triangle. [1945-FAC] M remembered the interrogation of Mestorino, the longest and hardest, almost a classic, no less than 26 hours. [1946-NEW] Lucas had an endurance story as well, known as the Tale of the Crippled Blockhead: To keep watch on a small private house - at the corner of the Rue de Birague, near the Place des Vosges, he had been disguised as a paralyzed old man in a wheelchair, whom every morning a nurse pushed to the window where he stayed all day, a spreading beard, fed by a spoon. This had gone on for 10 days, at the end of which he'd practically lost the use of his legs. [see: STA]... Some 15 years earlier, in late Autumn, for 3 days and 2 nights M had stayed glued to a garden gate on a deserted road in the neighborhood of Fécamp, waiting for a man to come out of the village opposite. Nobody knew he was there. He had not foreseen himself that he would be there. [see: LET]... The Quai de Charenton, a little beyond the Bercy warehouses reminded M of an investigation he had made a few years earlier, in a strange little house in those parts. He recalled the Quai de Bercy, with the iron grill of the warehouse on the left, the tall trees, the stone parapet of the Seine on the right. Then, beyond a bridge whose name he had forgotten, the quay widened out, with a row of one- or two-story villas along one side more like the suburbs than the city. There was always a whole fleet of barges at the spot, and M recalled the harbor covered with barrels has far as the eye could see. [1947-MOR] M didn't know that 22 years later, he would meet Lise Gendreau-Balthazar again, though under another name, an aristocratic Italian name, that of her husband, and that it would be in the Balthazar Coffee offices. She would say "Chief-Inspector, I need hardly ask you to be discreet..." and it would not be called the Sûreté, but Paris Police Headquarters, and he would be dealing with 'investigations undertaken on behalf of private families'. "... I'm afraid my daughter takes after her father... she let herself become involved with an unscrupulous individual who's taken her off to England, where he's obtained a marriage license..." [1948-PRE] M hardly knew the Midi. Was on a case there once at Antibes and Cannes. M couldn't remember if mimosa had been in bloom at the time of the case he had conducted at Antibes and Cannes a few years before.... the smell was like a small bar in Cannes, kept by a fat woman,where he had once been on a case and idled away many hours. [see: LIB]... M had been sent to Luçon for a few months "as a result of some rather complicated administrative postings". [see: JUG]. [1949-AMI] During his career he had investigated several cases along the coast, and had come across some real dramas there.... M had been secretly disappointed when someone had murdered their mother-in-law for money in Le Vésinet. [1949-DAM] Lagny. M had been there once. A little town on the edge of the Marne, with a lot of men fishing, and shiny canoes. He couldn't remember the case he had been on but it was in the summer, and he had drunk a light white wine. About a month ago a car had gone into the Marne... [1949-MME] M thought he must have spoken to Georges Sim about a case concerning a young girl and a pearl necklace, on which he'd been busy a few months earlier, and in which no professionals were involved. Months later he found on his desk "La jeune fille aux perles" [The girl with the pearl necklace] [PER] by Georges Sim.... In the space of half a century, there hadn't been more than a score of sensational cases, including the Bonnot case, the Mestorino case, the Landru case, the Sarrat case, and a few others.... M said he wasn't concerned with Mestorino, Landru, or the lawyer in the Massif Central who exterminated his victims by plunging them into a bath full of quicklime.... Twice M had come across young men at the Gare du Nord, who recognizing they'd been spotted, reached casually into their pocket, took out a gun, and shot themselves.... We had a little girl whose mother I had sent to prison for life, but we knew that her father would take her back as soon as he was restored to normal life. She is grown up now, but she still comes to see us, and Mme M enjoys going shopping with her in the afternoons. [1950-MEM] The Pernod brought back to M the memory of the south of France, particularly of a little dive in Cannes, where he'd once been on a case. [1951-GRA] M felt like answering, "And Landru? Was that child's play too?"... They'd been involved in more difficult arrests. M thought of a Pole who had for months terrorized the farms in the North and finally holed up in a little hotel in Paris, armed to the teeth. [1951-LOG] Hadn't it been a result of Mme M's getting into a conversation with the mother of a little boy in the gardens of Place d'Anvers awaiting her dental appointment that a murderer had been tracked down? [see: MME]. [1952-BAN] M reminded Julien Chabot that he'd lived in Luçon for more than a year. Said he remembered a certain murder at L'Aiguillon. It was actually a case in which M had had to arrest an ex-magistrate whom everyone considered respectable, on a charge of murder. [1953-PEU] M had visited Julien Chabot two years ago coming back from a conference in Bordeaux. (see: PEU). [1954-MIN] M said he'd known of two cases of criminals writing to newspapers to protest because innocent people had been arrested. [and another in TUE]... The bartender at the Café Solférino said that last year, when M had been dealing with what had been going on opposite at the Ministry, he'd come in several times for a drink. [see: Rue de Solférino].... Three years earlier one criminal had been identified by traces of sawdust on a handkerchief, another by a spot of printer's ink. [1955-TEN] Down in Brittany, the little troupe had invaded the Hôtel de l'Amiral, in the Quai Carnot, which M knew through having in the past once conducted a case there which had caused quite a stir. [see: JAU] M told Mme M, you see that cottage being demolished? That's where a young chap lived who came to see me in my office one day with his mother, and pinched one of my pipes. [see: PIP] Mme M asked, was it here you spent 3 days and 3 nights in some restaurant, after an unknown man had been found murdered in the Place de la Concorde? "A liitle further on. The restaurant's been turned into a garage. Now you can see a couple of gas pumps." [see: MOR] On another occasion he had travelled the whole length of the quays on foot, from the Charenton lock as far as the Île-Saint-Louis, on the heels of a tugboat owner whom he had eventually consigned to prison. The bar on the streetcorner, Quai de Charenton. He'd spent hours there watching someone. The barwoman studied M. It was over 3 years since he'd been there. On the yellow-painted walls were the sort of advertisments you see in cafés in the country. She finally recognized him, and remembered "a little fat fellow who bounced along as he walked", Lucas. They followed the Seine, in the direction of the forest of Fontainebleau. Shortly after Corbeil, M remembered an inn, at Morsang, where he had stayed during one of his cases. By the edge of the Seine, setting eel-traps, M recognized the inn-keeper. [1956-AMU] The atmosphere of the hotel reminded him of that trip he had made to the US when an American multimillionaire had begged him to come over and solve a thorny problem. (see: NEW) [1957-VOY] In a passage like that where Xavier Marton lived, a kind of blind alley, they had once found a murdered man at five o'clock in the afternoon, a few yards from the crowds going by on the pavement. [see: BAN]. [1957-SCR] At least once in his career M had been forced to work in front of a witness who followed his every move. A certain Inspector Pyke, from Scotland Yard, had obtained permission to follow one of M's cases, and seldom in his life had M felt so awkward.[AMI]... M told Angelot of a case where a man had killed his neighbor with a 6.35, because he'd been playing his radio too loud. He was a disabled ex-serviceman. The neighbor was a foreigner, a tailor; he'd been in trouble after the Liberation.... M told Examining Magistrate Angelot that in the past 10 years, at night, in private homes while the occupants were there, in Paris there had been 32 burglaries, about 3 per year. Three years ago they'd arrested a man of 25, who lived with his sister and had no friends, whose passion was to go into the bedroom whre a married couple was sleeping and take the jewelry. [1958-TEM] M had been in the news a lot at the time Léonard Planchon wrote the first letter, in connection with a crime committed by a young man of 18. [1962-CLI] One day, when a penniless and insignificant fellow had been killed in equally mysterious circumstances, M had said to the Examining Magistrate, "The have-nots just don't get murdered."... This was not the first time M had conducted an inquiry on a barge. He remembered what used to be called a "stable boat" drawn along canals by a horse that spent the night on board with it's master. Those boats were built of wood, and had a pleasant smell, due to the resin with which they were coated. [see: PRO] [1962-CLO] The only case M could remember of a lawyer killing a client was that of Bougrat.... It was on the banks of the Seine, a few miles upstream from Corbeil. There was an old inn there, the Vieux Garçon, where, for over 20 years, they had sometimes gone to spend Sundays. M had discovered it during the course of an investigation, standing all by itself on the riverbank. (see: GUI) [1962-COL] It had been a dull case, though a newspaper had come up with the headline "The Motorcycle Gang". The first time, in broad daylight in the Rue de Rennes, two motorcycles had drawn to the curb in front of a jewelers, tied red scarves over their faces and robbed the shop at gunpoint. It was the first time motorcycles had been used in a holdup. Three days later they did a luxury jewelers on the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. But one of the thieves had dropped his scarf, and was arrested the next day at his workplace, a locksmith on Rue Saint-Paul. But evening all three were under arrest. The eldest, Victor Sidon, known as "Granny" was 22, the youngest, 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. Saugier, known as "Squib", wept and denied all knowledge. 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. An ex-con out of Fresnes Prison only 2 months, he'd been at a bar on the Avenue des Ternes at the time of the holdup. [1963-FAN] Maître Leroy-Beaulieu reminded M that he'd spoken to him about the Montrond case, the old client of his whose wife... [1966-NAH] Years ago there'd been a murderer who'd written him a letter several pages long, every day for a month, each from a different brasserie. One morning, on his way to his office he'd noticed an elderly little man sitting patiently in the glass-walled waiting room generally referred to as the aquarium. It was the man he'd been looking for. [1969-VIN] Casino. The driver stopped in front of the Ambassadeurs in Cannes. The Casino was ablaze with lights. [1932-LIB] The pretty women were entertainers at the Casino. [1938-OWE] They crossed the road a little way beyond the Casino. [1947-VAC] Philippe de Moricourt had met Mrs. Ellen Wilcox at Casino at Cannes a little over a year earlier. [1949-AMI] Féret called and said he'd located Louise Laboine's mother, Germaine Laboine, in Monte Carlo, at the Casino. [1954-JEU] Bandol was white, almost like Algiers, and there were palm trees. They passed the Casino. [1971-IND] Casino Bar. Charles Besson had gone to the Casino Bar where he met his brother, Théo Besson. [1949-DAM] Casino de la Jetée. M called the Criminal Police in Nice, putting out a search for Justin of Toulons. In the morning a message came in that Justin de Toulon had been arrested at 7:00 am as he was leaving the Casino de la Jetée. [1941-SIG] Casino de Paris. Madeleine Lalande, the Countess von Farnheim, was born in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée. Was once a member of the troupe of the Casino de Paris. [1950-PIC] Mrs. Florence Wilton was in a troupe of dancing girls at the Casino de Paris, where Stuart Wilton had met her. [1961-PAR] M called Chavanon, a barrister he'd known for many years. He said Jean-Charles Gaillard had married a singer or dancer from the Casino de Paris. [1962-COL] Casmir. someone at the bar at the Arche de Noé, who, according to Paul, had won the Petit Provençal bowls championship last year. [1949-AMI] Cassegrain, Margot. Margot Cassegrain was Louis Mahossier's wife's maiden name. Her father was a notary, lived on Avenue des Villiers. His wife was in poor health. She studied art history at the Louvre, and at the School of Interior Design. [1971-SEU] Cassieux. Chief Superintendent, head of the vice squad, said to M, "What do you know, Maigret! She's back" when he saw Cécile Pardon waiting. He said of Cécile, "she squints." ... Casseux would have to deliver the customary lecture to Duchemin, as M was involved in the Cécile affair. [1940-CEC] Cassin, Gustave. Machère was waiting for M with Gustave Cassin, the skipper of the Étoile Polaire. [1932-FLA] Cassis. Jean Ramuel and Marie Deligeard lived in Toulon, Cassis and Marseilles before they moved to Paris. [1939-MAJ] Cassure. Judge. Examining magistrate who came to the scene of Marcel Vivien's murder in Les Halles with his clerk. Barely 30. Tall, young, exquisitely dressed. His chambers were in a part of the Palais de Justice that had not yet been modernized. Signed a warrant for Louis Mahossier, in case M needed it at La Baule. [1971-SEU] Castaing. Alain de Folletier told Dr. Philippe Bellamy that he had been about to have lunch with someone he knew, Castaing, from La Rochelle. (At which point Bellamy said that he had murdered Emile Duffieux.) [1947-VAC] Castaing. Inspector Castaing came from Le Havre, dark-haired with a red face. M said he knew him. [1949-DAM] Castiglione, Rue de. Gisèle Marton had had an apéritif in a bar on the Rue Castiglione with M. Harris before coming home the night of the murder. [1957-SCR] Line Marcia's hairdresser was on the Rue de Castiglione. [1971-IND] They went next to La Belle Hélène, Rue de Castiglione. [1972-CHA] Castor et Pollux. Hortense Canelle, the wife of the bargee of the Providence told M she'd heard about the murder at Dizy from someone on the Castor et Pollux. [1930-PRO] Castro, Fidel. [Fidel Castro [1926-], Cuban leader, overthrew Batista government in 1959. (Prime Minister 1959-1976, President 1976- ). Under Castro, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, governed by the Communist Party of Cuba.] Félix Nahour gambled in casinos at Deauville, Cannes, Évian, Enghien in the winter. For a year or two, before Castro, he was techinical adviser and probably an associate of the casino in Havana. [1966-NAH] cat. Julie Legrand was surprised to find that the cat was in the house when they got back. [1932-POR] Berthe said once when the cat was rubbing against Albert Marcinelle's legs he'd picked it up so roughly it had been lame since. [1937-38-BER] On the cane armchair Zouzou, a ginger tomcat was rolled up in a ball on a red cushion. [1942-FEL] The cat rubs itself against M's legs while he listened to Jean Maura's story. [1946-NEW] A black cat was curled up asleep on a chair in front of the stove of the café where Théo Besson was drinking with Henri Trochu. [1949-DAM] M felt something brush against his leg, and looked down to see the ginger cat gazing up at him and mewing... Judge Coméliau told M that Aline Calas had asked whether he'd taken care of her cat. He had, but Coméliau had told her that M had better things to do. [1955-COR] The only arm chair was occupied by a small, sandy-haired dog, Toto, and a cat, white with coffee-colored spots, who scarcely opened his green eyes. [1961-PAR] An orange cat was rubbing itself against M's legs. [1972-CHA] Catechism. M remembered his first year at school in the village of Allier, when he'd told his first big lie. He'd been given a Catechism with a greenish cover, while others had received a new one. He'd told the teacher he'd lost his, but he had hidden it, so he'd get a new one too. Finally he told the truth and gave back the new one. [1961-BRA] Cathédrale, Rue de la. [Liège] Armand Lecocq d'Arneville said he thought there had been a big grocers in the Rue de la Cathédrale with the name Van Damme [Joseph Van Damme]... but it was so long ago. [1930-31-PHO] René Delfosse was walking on the Rue de la Cathédrale when he realized Girard was following him. [1931-GAI] Catherine. Émile Ducrau said he'd had a drink with Catherine, who ran the dancehall [Bal]. [1933-ECL] At Mère Catherine's they had the fricandeau of veal with sorrel... "One of my favorites" said M. The driver, Joseph Lecoin, told Catherine he'd given her message to Paul Benoît who had a gas station at Montargis. [1937-38-NOY] Catherine was the old maid at the Lachaume's.... Catherine said she'd been at the house 50 years, started when her mistress was 20 and had given birth to Léonard Lachaume. [1958-TEM] "Drink this Catherine," they'd say to the widow before setting off for the church and cemetery. [1960-VIE] Catholic. Maria Peeters was a régente in a school kept by the Ursulines, who held in the teaching world a position comparable with that of the Jesuits, with whom they formed, so to speak, the aristocracy of Catholic education. [1932-FLA] Harry Brown had struck M more as a Protestant than a Catholic. [1932-LIB] Germaine Gouin's sister, Antoinette Ollivier, unmarried, lived in the Boulevard Saint-Michel, opposite the School of Mining. 5 years older, she worked in a municipal library. She was a great Catholic and thought Étienne Gouin was the Devil. [1953-TRO] Germaine Gastin had been a Catholic until she was married, but her husband didn't believe in religion so she'd quit the church. [1953-ECO] Louise Laboine had said she was a Catholic. [1954-JEU] Isabelle de V-- and her husband were Catholic. [1960-VIE] Philippe de Lancieux was sent to a Catholic school in Montmorency. He ran away at 14, and was found two days later in Le Havre. He was moved to another near Versailles. [1961-BRA] Jacqueline Rousselet said her mother was a devout Catholic, never got a divorce. [1962-CLO] M said he assumed Vicente Alvaredo was Catholic, like most Colombians. [1966-NAH] According to Léon Florentin, Joséphine Papet wasn't a Catholic, or at least never went to Mass. [1968-ENF] Amadieu said that Gérard Sabin-Levesque was a Catholic, and despite the life he led, quite religious, so he wouldn't want a divorce. [1972-CHA] Catoire & Potut. On the vast, pedimented depot was written Catoire & Potut, Metals, familiar words to M, since he had looked down on it every day for more than 30 years. He was at his window in the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. [1956-AMU] Catroux. M had a friend at the Rue des Saussaies, Catroux, to whose son he'd been godfather. Had worked over 20 years at the Rue des Saussaies. M remembered he 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] Catroux, Isabelle. Catroux's wife. Looked like an old woman. Brought M a calvados. [1954-MIN] Caucasson, Jean-Luc. Jean-Luc Caucasson published art books. [1969-VIN] Caucasson, Meg. Meg Caucasson had written a number of letters to Oscar Chabut. [1969-VIN] Caudeuils, Jeanne de. Alain Vernoux's wife's maiden name was Jeanne de Caudeuils. [1953-PEU] Caulaincourt, Rue. Colin, the little deaf man, lived with his wife in the Rue Caulaincourt. She'd been an assistant manageress at one of his brothels. [1934-MAI] Berthe lived at 67b Rue Caulaincourt, in Montmartre, not far from the Place Constantin-Pecqueur, between a bakery and an Auvergnat's bar. A typical Montmartre house, with the porter's lodge next to the front door, a worn reddish stair-carpet, walls of imitation marble and two doors with brass knobs on each landing. Her's was on the 6th floor. [1937-38-BER] [Stephan Strevzki] followed the same route, from Trinité and Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], Place Clichy and Barbès [Boulevard Barbès] by way of the Rue Caulaincourt, then from Barbès to the Gare du Nord and the Rue La Fayette. [1939-HOM] Edgar Fagonet lived at 57 Rue Caulaincourt, with his mother and sister. [1939-MAJ] M got a call from the Rue Damrémont Police Station, that Mlle. Jeanne, a fortuneteller at 67 bis Rue Caulaincourt had been murdered. 5th floor, door on the right. No elevator. [1941-SIG] A red light came on, a direct call from the alarm box on the corner of the Rue Caulaincourt and the Rue Lamarck. [1946-MAL] 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] Old Lagrume, the man who walked so much was the most senior, though he'd never risen to Inspector. Tall and melancholy. A woman had been murdered in the Rue Caulaincourt with a kitchen knife. For nine weeks Lagrume had walked Paris, searching for who had sold the knife. He finally found it sold by a stationer on Boulevard Rochechouart, and the murderer had been found and convicted. [1950-MEM] Rosalie Moncoeur</