MAIGEN - The Maigret Encyclopedia
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Fabien. Étienne Naud called out a greeting to Fabien, who they passed on the road. [1943-CAD]
Fabre, Paul. 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]. ... Goulet said there was a rumor that if he wished, Paul Fabre would soon be one of the youngest professors in the Medical Faculty. [1961-BRA]
Fabre, Véronique. 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]
Fachin, Oscar. Oscar Fachin was one of the boarders at Mlle. Clément's. Student. Made a living copying out music. Room looked on the yard. [1951-MEU]
Faculty of Science. Antoine Batille's father would have liked him to have enrolled in the Faculty of Science, and studied Chemistry so that he could later take over the business, but Antoine had no interest. [1969-TUE]
Fagonet, Albert. Edgar Fagonet's father, Albert Jean-Marie Fagonet, had been foreman at the Lecoeur Works in Lille. [1939-MAJ]
Fagonet, Albertine. Edgar Fagonet's mother, Albertine Octavio Hautebois Fagonet, 54, 57 Rue Caulaincourt, where Edgar lived with her and his sister. [1939-MAJ]
Fagonet, Edgar. On the studio portraits, Zebio was called Eusebio Fualdès, but his real name was Edgar Fagonet, born in Lille.... Torrence supplied M with a report on Edgar Fagonet. His father, dead 3 years, had been Albert Jean-Marie Fagonet, foreman at the Lecoeur Works in Lille. Mother, 54, housewife, Albertine Octavio Hautebois (Albertine Fagonet), 57 Rue Caulaincourt, where Edgar lived with her and his sister. Some information came from the Gasworks district of Lille. Also contacted was the Chevalet Sanatorium in Megève, and the Imperia movie theater, on Boulevard des Capucines. Fagonet had been sent to a sanatorium on the island of Oléron for his health; at 17 he was sent to Chevalet. Dr. Chevalet remembered him. His sister, Émilie Fagonet, 19, had a bone disorder and was mentally retarded. Fagonet had tried to find employment in Lille and Roubaix, finally came to Paris and became a theater usher. Because of his Latin American appearance was called Zebio, went to work at the Majestic as a professional dancing partner. His mother was from the north of France; apparently he'd only been to the Riviera for a few days, while still at the Imperia. [1939-MAJ]
Fagonet, Émilie. Edgar Fagonet's sister, Émilie, 19, had a bone disorder and was mentally retarded. [1939-MAJ]
Faisanderie, Rue de la . Robert Courmont had a house on Rue de la Faisanderie. [1954-MIN]
 Aristide Fumel was calling from the station in the Rue de la Faisanderie. [1961-PAR]
Faisant. On the first floor was Madame Faisant, a widow, saleswoman in a couture house, and a couple named Lanier, of private means. [1963-FAN]
Fajon. Renée Planchon called Roger Prou at Mme. Fajon's house on the Rue Lamarck, where he was working, to tell him the police were searching their house. [1962-CLI]
Falaise . The proprieter of the café came from Falaise, offered M and Boissier Calvadoes. [1951-GRA]
Falconet. 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]
Falconi. Falconi and Scapucci were two regulars at the Eucalyptus, two men with records who cropped up periodically around Pigalle. [1959-ASS]
Falconi, Albert. 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. Another time he'd been suspected of involvement in the murder of a Marseilles gang member in Montmartre. About 35. [1954-JEU]
Falk, René. René Falk was Joseph Mascoulin's secretary. Not more than 25, fair-haired, frail. Photostated the copies of Mascoulin's statement for M. [1954-MIN]
Fallut, Octave. The captain, Octave Fallut, had boarded with a widow in the Rue d'Étretat, Mme. Bernard. He'd been sailing for La Morue Française for 15 years.... The director said Octave Fallut was the only one who used red ink, when he was at home. The face in the photo Léon found under Pierre Le Clinche's table cloth had been scribbled over in red ink.... A uniformed policeman came up to M on the beach with a note they'd received, signed Octave Fallut, which said no one was to be accused of his death. [1931-REN]
False-Noses. Mattei was the boss of the False-Noses of Marseilles, who pulled off about twenty hold-ups before they were stopped. [1962-COL]
Fantômas .
[A sportsman and elegant member of high society when not wearing his mask, Fantômas transforms himself into a ferocious criminal as soon as he slips into his black outfit. Created in 1911 by Pierre Souvestre (1874-1914) and Marcel Allain (1885-1969), this evil genius terrorized generations of readers, and was often brought to the screen.] (typo in Eng. ed. as: Fantômes) The grandson of the old Comte d'Anseval was Jacques d'Anseval, penniless, who was seeing Lise Gendreau-Balthazar. 25, good-looking. Germaine Baboeuf imagined he carried a gun. She'd read Fantômas. [1948-PRE]
Farano, Ada. Antonio Farano's sister, Ada, lived with Émile Boulay's family, worked as his secretary. Ada Farano was barely 22. She said that about 2:00 they'd gone over to the Place Pigalle. [1962-COL]
Farano, Antonio. M saw Lucas at the Brasserie Dauphine, who came over and introduced him to Antonio Farano. It seemed to him he could have already seen the face of this Italian who could have been a film star.... Antonio Farano drove off in a red sports-car. [1962-COL]
Farms and Castles. M found magazines on the shelf at the villa; Farms and Castles, Country Life, The Connoisseur. [Fermes et Châteaux, La Vie à la Campagne, Connaissance des Arts]. [1971-IND]
Farnheim, Countess von. M got a call from Police-Secours [le central de Police-Secours] that a Countess von Farnheim had been found strangled in Rue Victor-Massé.... Dr. Bloch said Countess von Farnheim was about 48 or 49, probably a morphine addict for 15 years. Said she'd been married to Count Hans von Farnheim, an Austrian he thought, lived on the Côte d'Azur in a big estate. [1950-PIC]
Farnheim, Count Hans von. The photograph showed 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]
Faron . Blanc said Alfred Meurant was living in a boarding house called the Eucalyptus [les Eucalyptus], quite a way outside Toulon on the hill between Faron and La Vallette. [1959-ASS]
Fast, Billy. Bob asked Luigi if he'd seen Billy Fast, a kind of bookmaker who lived in the Maisons-Lafitte, actually in an inn in the forest near there, the Au Bon Vivant, run by an American woman who used to be a chorus girl. [1951-LOG]
Fat Boy. One of the "transient" members of Stan the Killer's gang they nicknamed Fat Boy, a rotund, short-winded little fellow, better dressed than the others. [1937-38-STA]
Fat Fred. Fat Fred, associated with Pietr, passed the forged check at the Federal Bank in Berne, was killed while being arrested. Had passed himself off as Major Howard of the American Legion, but was a former New York bootlegger, known as Fat Fred. [1929-30-LET]
Father Christmas. Colette Martin told Mme. Doncoeur she'd had a visit from Father Christmas, and he'd left her a doll. She said Father Christmas was probably making a hole in her floor to get down to the Delormes', where there was a boy of three. [1950-NOE]
It was true that in the police they no longer believed in Father Christmas. [1958-TEM]
Father Sertillange. see: Sertillange, Father
Fat Jaja. Some people called her Fat Jaja to tease her. La Grosse Jaja. [1932-LIB]
Fat Louis. see: Louis, Fat
Faubourg-Saint-Jacques . Étienne Gouin had taken his wife, when she was his nurse, to a restaurant in the Faubourg-Saint-Jacques. She'd told him her father was a fisherman in Brittany.... When M reached the Cochin hospital in the Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, Étienne Gouin had already left with his assistant for the Saint-Joseph Clinic at Passy. [1953-TRO]
Faubourg-Montmartre, Rue du . Janvier said he'd checked restaurants as far as the Faubourg-Montmartre [Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre] and that Torrence had reached the Place Clichy [Place de Clichy]. [1947-MOR]
M walked down the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette after the Hôtel Beauséjour, and took a taxi at the Faubourg Montmartre after stopping by a bar for a beer. [1949-MME]
M walked from the hotel on Rue Richier in the direction of Faubourg-Montmartre in the hopes of finding a taxi.... M told Bonfils to take several uniformed men and cut off the Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre. [1951-LOG]
Ten minutes later, as the car was on its way up the Faubourg-Montmartre, M had already forgotten that he hadn't slept that night. [1954-JEU]
M said they'd start by going down the Saint-Pierre steps. Then they'd stroll along the Boulevard Rochechouart, and then go down the Rue des Martyrs, where M liked the swarming crowds. He liked the Faubourg-Montmartre too.... They turned the corner of Faubourg-Montmartre and the Grands Boulevards, and spotted a little cinema playing some early Charlie Chaplins. [1956-AMU]
The editor of one of the largest morning papers, Frémiet, called M. They'd known each other for many years. An anonymous letter had come by pneumatique, from the Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre pneumatique office. [1969-TUE]
Faubourg Saint-Antoine . A week before, in the lower-class district of Faubourg Saint-Antoine, M had dealt with a man who'd stabbed his lover and her husband, and then tried to commit suicide. [1960-VIE]
Twice Jef Claes had returned to Paris with Mina Claes, had found a furnished room near Sacré-Coeur, or in Faubourg Saint-Antoine. [1965-PAT]
Faubourg Saint-Denis . As far as M could remember, Post Office 26 was in the Faubourg Saint-Denis, near the Grands Boulevards. [1947-VAC]
Faubourg Saint-Germain . John Arnold looked at the photographs. "That's Nanette of Faubourg Saint-Germain." [1957-VOY]
After all, Les Chartrons, where Victor Lamotte lived, was the Faubourg Saint-Germain of Bordeaux. [1968-ENF]
Gérard Sabin-Levesque inherited one of the best practices in Paris, practically the whole of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. [1972-CHA]
Faubourg Saint-Honoré . John Arnold had gone to a hotel in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Bristol, where the English solicitor, Donald Philps was staying, opposite the British Embassy. [1957-VOY]
Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Rue du . In October of the previous winter a Pole, who had attacked a number of farms in the north of France, had holed up in a small hotel at the corner of the Rue de Birague and the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. [1946-MAL]
There were certain shady places around Faubourg-Saint-Antoine where false identity cards were produced. [1947-MOR]
Paul Martin had had a good job in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, in a furniture store, but after the accident in which his wife was killed had taken to drink. [1950-NOE]
Gaston Meurant's wife, Ginette Meurant, 27, petite, excellent figure. She'd gone to the movies on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine the night of the crime. She'd worked as a waitress in a restaurant on that street 8 years earlier when they were married. [1959-ASS]
"M's most dangerous arrest" was the arrest of the gang of Poles in broad daylight on the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, without a shot being fired. [1965-PAT]
Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Rue du . The postmaster called from the #28 post office in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. He'd spoken to the clerk, Mlle. Denfer, who said he'd seemed frightened. He'd left a message for M, that he was coming towards the Quai des Orfèvres. [1947-MOR]
Lecoeur called M from the Faubourg-Saint-Denis police station, to report on Alain Lagrange's robbing Gaston Grimal, a businessman from the provinces. [1952-REV]
Faubourg-Saint-Germain, Rue du . There were still rich, titled old ladies, with their own mansion in the Avenue du Bois [Avenue du Bois de Boulogne] or the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Germain, who have been frequenting the same night-clubs for the past 40 years. [1947-MOR]
Ginette Meurant took a taxi from Boulevard de Charonne, but when they reached Boulevard Saint-Michel, the cab made a sudden right into Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Germain. [1959-ASS]
Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Rue du . Rue de la Paix, Place Vendôme, Faubourg Saint-Honoré... Pietr strolled on. [1929-30-LET]
Mrs. Mimi Clark had bought the automatic found in her bag the day before at a gunsmith's on the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré.... The taxi stopped at Boulevard Haussmann, right on the corner of Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. M and the two women got out. [1939-MAJ]
When they came to a grocers in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, M said he didn't think Jacques Pétillon was in any condition to eat., but Félicie bought a fine bunch of Spanish grapes, some oranges and a bottle of champagne. [1942-FEL]
Maxime Le Bret's wife was supposed to have tea with Lise Gendreau-Balthazar and the Comtesse Bernadette d'Estireau at the Pihan Tearooms in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. [1948-PRE]
Maître Orin told M the club had already moved from Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré to Avenue Hoche when Alain Serre came back again. [1951-GRA]
M had just had two Calvados on Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, and it had been a long time since he'd tasted whisky... [1951-LOG]
When Léon Zirkt dropped them at the corner of the Boulevard Haussmann and Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, he saw Louise Laboine still walking. [1954-JEU]
Ferdinand Fumal's wife's father had been one of the biggest butchers in Paris, in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré at a time when Fumal wasn't yet rich. [1956-ECH]
Éveline Jave's jewel case had been made by a well-known saddler in the Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. [1956-AMU]
Adrien Josset was working in an English drugstore on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, where he met his future wife, a customer. [1959-CON]
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 locksmithe on Rue Saint-Paul. [1963-FAN]
Gèron and Sons had had the Morvan Paper Mills at Autun for three or four generations. Made the Morvan Vellum paper the anonymous note had come on. Handmade. Worked with two stationers, one on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and one Avenue de l'Opéra. [1968-HES]
Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Rue du . M thought of the book he had seen Justin Cavre holding at Alban Groult-Cotelle's, one of those disgustingly salacious books that are sold under the counter in seedy shops on Faubourg Saint-Martin. [1943-CAD]
Blancpain had chased Antoine Cristin along the Rue des Récollets but lost him in the traffic of Faubourg Saint-Martin. [1955-COR]
Fauchois, Ferdinand. The butler at the Émile Parendon's. Came from Berry, like Parendon. Bachelor. Had been in the foreign legion. From Aubagne. Had been in military prison, in Africa. Had done "stupid things" in Toulon, bad company.... Had joined the foreign legion saying he was Belgian. Had worked for Parendon for eight years. [1968-HES]
Fauchon's . The concierge said Line Marcia sometimes went to Fauchon's or some other luxury shop to buy things she couldn't get in the neighborhood. [1971-IND]
Faute, La . see: La Faute
Faverges, Léontine. M had seen a plaque on the wall in the name of Mme. Léontine Faverges (62) at Rue Manuel.... Léontine Faverges came from a poor family in Le Havre. She'd left home and become a salesgirl for a big department store in Paris and married soon after. Her sister Hélène, the younger, had worked in a dairy, then in a haberdasher's on Rue d'Hauteville.. [1959-ASS]
Fayet. As in previous years, they had stayed at a hotel in Meung-sur-Loire, and the landlords, the Fayets, treated them as members of the family. [1959-ASS]
Fayette, Rue, La . see: La Fayette, Rue
Fay, Josette. Mlle. Fay, known as Mlle. Josette, lived in the attic at Aline's. An old maid, 82, did her own shopping and housework. [1965-PAT]
Fazio, Joe. The dead man was Joe Fazio, came from Marseilles four or five years ago. Was a barman in a sleazy bar called the Paréo. [1972-CHA]
FBI. Once M had left Jos MacGill, he'd called Special Agent Michael O'Brien, of the FBI, whom he had known in France several years before, in the course of an important international case. [1946-NEW]
M was perfectly aware that Harry Cole had "shelved: him, but M would have done the same in the FBI man's place. [1949-CHE]
(J.J.) Jimmy MacDonald was one of J Edgard Hoover's chief aides in the FBI in Washington. [1951-LOG]
When M had spent several weeks in the US at the invitation of the FBI, they had presented him with a revolver, a Smith & Wesson .45 special, with short barrel and highly sensitive trigger mechanism, and his name engraved on it: 'To J.-J. Maigret, from his FBI friends.' [1952-REV]
Albert Falconi said he'd told Jimmy O'Malley about another American, and he'd thought it might be the FBI.... M asked what time it was in Washington, told Janvier to call the FBI and ask for Clark. [1954-JEU]
Fécamp . M would catch the 5:30 train to Fécamp.... La Bréauté station, where M left the main-line train from Paris to Le Havre, gave him a foretaste of Fécamp.... A dense reek of salt cod and herring. Stacks of barrels.... 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]
Pierre Le Clinche had been a pupil of Jorissen's, 20, sailed 3 months earlier on the Océan, a Fécamp trawler which fished cod in Newfoundland. M said Fécamp would be no worse a place for a holiday than anywhere else.. [1931-REN]
Delcourt told M that the Saint-Michel was at Fécamp and should reach Ouistreham next evening. [1932-POR]
Jules Lapie had been a bookkeeper for a firm in Fécamp, a ship chandler, suppliers of sails, rope, winches and all kinds of ship's stores and provisions.... Jules Lapie had engaged Félicie, a girl he had known as a child in Fécamp, since she was 17, for 7 years.... M knew Fécamp well, its mean, cramped little terraced houses huddled at the foot of the cliffs, upstream from the estuary, its streets awash with dirty water, children playing amid the sickening stench of fish. [1942-FEL]
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] [1947-MOR]
The Chief had received a call from the Minister. Charles Besson, who lived at Fécamp, was elected Deputy for the Seine-Inférieure two years ago. His step-mother, Valentine Besson, lived at Étretat. [1949-DAM]
The other man, Loubières, burly, hirsute, born at Fécamp, kept a garage at Puteaux Married, two children. [1961-PAR]
Federigo Palestri. see: Palestri, Federigo
Fédor Yurovich. see: Yurovich, Fédor
Feignies . [Feignes in HBJ] The two policemen who brought Gérard Pardon back to the Gare du Nord in Paris had come from Feignies. Told them they could catch the 5-7 back. Stopped the taxi at Rue La Fayette to sign their expense sheets. They got out and went into a bar. [1940-CEC]
Feinstein. Feinstein, a hosier with a shop in the Grands Boulevards, introduced himself to M. Said he traded under the name Marcel. His wife had played the bride in the mock marriage. [1931-GUI]
Feinstein, Mado. Feinstein's wife, Mado, who was in shock from her husband's death.... Mado Feinstein said the revolver was hers. [1931-GUI]
Félicie. Félicie walked beside him, or rather, a little ahead of him, since she had to take two steps for every one of his.... Slim figure, quaint clothes, big blue eyes, supercillious nose, her outrageous scarlet confection of a hat, trimmed with a stiff, iridescent green feather. She'd given him more trouble than all the hardened criminals in his career. [1942-FEL]
Félicien. see: Jamet, Félicien
Félicien Gendreau. see: Gendreau, Félicien
Félix. The barman at the Folies-Bergère. Jean Bronsky would talk with Félix while waiting for Francine Latour. [1947-MOR]
Arlette had called Marco for Mariette Gibon from a restaurant on the Boulevard Voltaire, to tell him not to come to the house till she told him it was clear. Left a message for him with Félix, a waiter in Le Poker d'As, a bar in Rue de Douai. [1952-BAN]
Louise Bourges said she didn't quit her job because of the chauffeur, Félix, to whom she was engaged. When they had enough money they planned to move to Giens, where they both came from. [1956-ECH]
Someone at the Cric-Crac told M if he was looking for M. Félix, the barman, he wasn't in. [1972-CHA]
Félix et Félicie . Jean-Claude Ternel had gone with Marinette Augier to Félix et Félicie at Pomponne, on the Marne, not far from Lagny, which she especially liked. [1963-FAN]
Félix Jubert. see: Jubert, Félix
Félix Lachaume. see: Lachaume, Félix
Félix Nahour. see: Nahour, Félix
Fénard, Jeanne. Jeanne Fénard, the elder of the two maids was a slattern in her late 20s. She had a son of 4. [1937-38-MAN]
Fenton . Inspector Pyke had posted a man at the Lancaster Hotel, Fenton, red-haired, with a moustache, to check on Alain Lagrange. [1952-REV]
Ferchaud, Pierre. Étienne Naud greeted the stationmaster, Pierre Ferchaud.... Pierre Ferchaud, the stationmaster, had discovered Albert Retailleau's body. He'd telephoned the town hall, and the Deputy Mayor had contacted the Benet Police Headquarters, as there was no police Sergeant in Saint-Aubin-les-Marais. [1943-CAD]
Ferdinand. Boxer Jo introduced M to Ferdinand, who kept a garage not far from the Porte Maillot. Long, thin figure, huge nose, lively little eyes like a mouse. [1947-MOR]
Ferdinand Besson. see: Besson, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Cornu. see: Cornu, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Fauchois. see: Fauchois, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Fumal. see: Fumal, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Voivin. see: Voivin, Ferdinand
Féret . M called Detective-Sergeant Féret, of the Flying Squad at Nice. He'd worked under M before transferring there because of his wife's health. [1954-JEU]
Ferme, Rue de la . Boissier found the name on the list where a safe had been installed: Guillaume Serre, dentist, 43b, Rue de la Ferme, Neuilly. Just past the Zoo, a street parallel with Boulevard Richard-Wallace. [1951-GRA]
Fermes et Châteaux. M found magazines on the shelf at the villa; Farms and Castles, Country Life, The Connoisseur. [Fermes et Châteaux, La Vie à la Campagne, Connaissance des Arts]. [1971-IND]
Fernand. Gassin asked Fernand for another drink. He was an old man with a yellow beard, and his right arm was bandaged. [1933-ECL]
Lucas knocked at the dance-hall, all in darkness. A woman in curlers, out the window said "Fernand, it's for you." [1942-FEL]
When M found Laurence Decoin, she protested to the giant of a butcher, "I don't know him, Fernand." [1947-VAC]
Neveu had been in a bar in the Rue Blondel, very near Porte Saint-Martin, called Chez Fernand. Fernand was a former jockey. When he saw Monsieur Louis [Louis Thouret]'s photo, he said he'd been in a few times with Fred the Clown. [1952-BAN]
Fernand had been Pierre Sabatini's cell-mate at Saint-Martin-de-Ré. [1961-PAR]
Fernand Barillard. see: Barillard, Fernand
Fernand Courcel. see: Courcel, Fernand
Fernande. The girl Fernande asked M to come back to her house with him. She gone to a hotel in the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette the night before with three young men who wanted to try taking ether".... Fernande's pajama jacket had parted, showing a glimpse of her pointed breasts. She must have been 27 or 28, but her body was that of a young girl, and the nipples were pale pink and scarcely formed. [1934-MAI]
Fernande, a customer at the Old Wine Press. [1966-VOL]
Fernande Steuvels. see: Steuvels, Fernande
Fernand, Handsome. Mickey Boubée asked M if he remembered Fat Louis, who owned the three brothels in the Rue de Provence. And One-eyed Eugène? And Handsome Fernand... [1962-COL]
Féron . Inspector, Fontenay-le-Comte Police Superintendent in charge of the Robert de Courçon case. Short, brown-haired man. Knew the town, though he came from Arles, in Midi. [1953-PEU]
Féronstrée, Rue . Jean Chabot's father asked him if he knew whether the big apartment on the Rue Féronstrée was going up for sale. [1931-GAI]
Ferrari. Oscar Coutant told M that Nicole Prieur was in what they called the Étoile set, drove to school in Jaguars and Ferraris. Most of the group lived near the Arc de Triomphe, Avenue Foch, and so on. Martinez, the son of a South American ambassador drove an open blue Ferrari. [1964-DEF]
M told Freddy Strazzia he'd seen no less than five Ferraris at the funeral in Bandol. [1971-IND]
Ferrari, Guido. Guido Ferrari, the Italian who was with Oscar, did the killings. [1931-NUI]
Ferté-Alais, La . see: La Ferté-Alais
Ferté-sous-Jouarre, La . see: La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
Février. The waiter from the buffet at the Gare Saint-Lazare called on behalf of Janvier, who'd name he thought was Février, to say he was on his way to Rouen. [1942-FEL]
Feynerou, Alice. Féret said he'd had a call from a fishmonger, Alice Feynerou, who'd recognized the photo which had been in the Éclaireur [Nice]. Said she'd known Louise Laboine and her mother four or five years earlier, and they'd lived not far from the Avenue Clemenceau. [1954-JEU]
FF. M's badge was 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. [1966-VOL]
fiacre. At Antibes M got into a horse-drawn fiacre with Boutigues - a cream-colored awning fringed with little tassels. [1932-LIB]
Fiat. Mme. Nathalie Sabin-Levesque said they had two cars, a Bentley for her husband, a Fiat which she used. [1972-CHA]
Fiesole. Mrs. Ellen Wilcox had a villa in Italy, Fiesole, on a hill, overlooking Florence. [1949-AMI]
Fifth Avenue . The cab stopped on the corner of an avenue M did not yet know was Fifth Avenue. [1946-NEW]
Ward said he'd been in a bar on Fifth Avenue in Tucson when he'd heard about Bessie Mitchell's death. [1949-CHE]
Figaro. Joseph offered newspapers to Raymond Auger: Le Temps, Figaro, Les Débats. [1946-OBS]
Almost all the people who'd lived in those houses had had names that could be read any morning in the Figaro or Gaulois. [1957-VOY]
Mace, from Figaro, had managed to follow the taxi. Lamblin and Ginette Meurant had gone to a seafood restaurant on Place de l'Odéon specializing in bouillabaisse. [1959-ASS]
The writer of the anonymous letter (Gus Parendon) requested a response to "K.R." in Le Figaro or Le Monde. [1968-HES]
Two months later Blanche Bonnard saw their wedding picture in the Figaro. [1972-CHA]
Filet de Sole . M knew that Joseph Mascoulin lunched everyday at a restaurant in Place des Victoires called "Filet de Sole". [1954-MIN]
Filipino. Carl Lipschitz's wallet contained a second identity card in the Italian name Filipino. [1947-MOR]
Fillou. Louis Fillou's father had worked in a clog factory, which employed 50 people. It was a time when there were endless strikes. He'd gone in to lodge a complaint, and been thrown out bodily. He'd died two years before of stomach cancer. [1943-CAD]
Fillou, Louis. One of the four men, the young one, Louis Fillou, had been Albert Retailleau's friend. [1943-CAD]
Filon, Ernest. M had Lucas call Béziers to see if Ernest Filon, who was in the hospital some years ago, still lived there. (earlier: Louis Filon). [1953-TRO]
Filon, Louis. 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]
Filon, Louise. 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, a young woman, probably a murder.... Louise Filon had been picked up more than 100 times by the Black Maria, between the ages of 15 and 24.... Louise Filon had told Désirée Brault she came from the 18th, practically the gutter, and spent most of her life in the Chapelle district.... 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]
Finance Department. see: Financial Section
Finance Squad. see: Financial Section.
Financial Section. Lucas told M he had to arrest Oscar Laget at 4:00, that the warrant was signed by the Financial Section [section financière] of the DPP. [1936-FEN]
M had the taxi take him to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Financial Section [Section Financière]. [1939-MAJ]
The Superintendent of the Finance Squad [Section financière] was as stiff as a poker. If he was in his office it meant there'd be trouble in the Bourse the next morning. [1946-MAL]
There were two squads in which he hadn't worked, Sports Squad and Financial Squad [brigade financière]. [1950-MEM]
M had asked Bodard, of the Financial Section [Section Financière], 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]
M had asked for someone from the Finance Department [brigade financière] to help with Ferdinand Fumal's papers. [1956-ECH]
M said the Crime Squad was less important, in the eyes of the Minister of the Interior, than General Information or the Finance Section [Section Financière]. [1961-PAR]
M called the Financial Section [Brigade financière] and spoke with Superintendent Belhomme. [1965-PAT]
Financial Squad. see: Financial Section
Findlay . Michael O'Brien said it was too bad M didn't know the Bronx. Findlay, 169th St... O'Brien said there was still a tailor shop opposite the house.... M asked the cab driver to take him to the corner of Findlay and 169th St. [1946-NEW]
fingerprints. The Judicial Identification people took some photos, but they found no fingerprints. Except the dead man's, of course, which weren't on file. [1929-30-LET]
M ... sent a motorcyclist to Épernay with Jean Liberge's prints to be sent to Paris by Belin telephotograph... Benoît was up in the attics at the Palais de Justice, and had found the files for Jean Liberge's fingerprints. [1930-PRO]
M had made a note about fingerprints on the knife... only the victims prints would be on it. [1930-GAL]
It remained only to compare the fingerprints with Joseph Heurtin's - they matched. [1930-31-TET]
Leroy spent half the night constructing a package for transporting objects without losing the fingerprints on them. [1931-JAU]
Jean Duclos had spoken on fingerprints, the analysis of all sorts of remains... [1931-HOL]
The photographers from the Technical Branch, who worked in the basement of the Palais de Justice, said no interesting fingerprints had been found. [1931-OMB]
Leduc said Bertillon claimed that the chance of two men's fingerprints being the same was one in 200,000. [1932-FOU]
On the top floor of the Palais de Justice, two men in gray overalls were painstakingly checking fingerprints. [1937-38-AMO]
The man's fingerprints, sent to Paris by tele-photo [bélino], did not appear in the files at the Palais de Justice. [1938-OWE]
Two men from the Forensic Laboratory had come for the body, two specialists from Criminal Records Office had worked on locker 89 looking for fingerprints. [1939-MAJ]
M told Dambois to have the revolver checked for fingerprints, then sent to the expert Gastinne-Renette. [1946-MAL]
Moers had passed on the clearest prints to the Anthropometric Department, but they hadn't found a match... Carl Lipschitz's fingerprints were found on file... Moers came to Au Petit Albert to check for fingerprints... M went up to the Records Office, where they had no fingerprints on file for the man [Albert Rochain]. [1947-MOR]
Castaing had been upstairs with Cornu, from the Criminal Records Department, taking photographs and fingerprints. [1949-DAM]
The burglars had not left a single fingerprint, nor any compromising object... More than a year later, I received another invitation, written this time on one of our fingerprint cards. [1950-MEM]
They went to the Forensic Laboratory, on the Pont d'Austerlitz to view Louis Thouret's body.... M told Janvier to get a hold of Moers or someone from the Forensics Lab to fingerprint Thouret's room at Mariette Gibon's. [1952-BAN]
Julien Chabot told M that even for taking fingerprints he was obliged to send for someone from Poitiers. [1953-PEU]
M told Moers to send the fingerprints to the Index Office. [1953-TRO]
"Any fingerprints?" "They bear out our theory. Calas's prints are all over the drawers and cupboard, only on the inside, though." [1955-COR]
M told Lucas to show Ferdinand Fumal's letters to Moers, on the off chance. Moers knew very type of paper, ink... probably every make of pencil too. And there might be fingerprints. [1956-ECH]
Near Porte Saint-Denis he went into a bar, ordered a beer, and wrote a note to Janvier. M could imagine Moers expression in the laboratory, if he checked the fingerprints. [1956-AMU]
Only the fingerprints of the two residents and, in the kitchen, those of a delivery boy had been found. [1959-ASS]
M could hear the voices of Mercier, the delegate from the D.A.'s office, and Étienne Gossard, a young coroner [Examining Magistrate]. The men from Forensics would soon take over.... M called Moers in Forensics to send a man over to René Josselin's to check the maid's room for fingerprints. [1961-BRA]
Moers told M he'd have the photographs and an enlargement of the fingerprints around three o'clock. [1965-PAT]
M said not to use the phone on the desk, as there might be some fingerprints on the receiver. [1966-NAH]
M told the reporters the men from Criminal Records hadn't finished fingerprinting. [1970-FOL]
Inspector Lebel had taken Marcel Vivien's fingerprints at the crime scene... The first of the two reports attached concerning Nina Lassave's murder was his stating that no fingerprints were found. [1971-SEU]
Finistère . Jean Servières said if he told the strychnine story in his article it would close every bar in Finistère.... Ernest Michoux was sentenced to 20 years' hard labor by the Finistère Criminal Court. But one month earlier a newspaper photo showed him embarking from the Île de Ré, on the Martinière, which was carrying 180 convicts to Devil's Island. [1931-JAU]
Olga Boulanger's father kept an inn somewhere in Finistère. [1936-LUN]
Germaine Gouin's father was still alive in Finistère. [1953-TRO]
Finland . The ships that came in usually came from Riga or Finland, carrying lumber.... Conrad Popinga had been appointed vice-consul of Finland the week before. [1931-HOL]
Finnish. A tug was towing a Finnish ship out to the harbor. [1931-HOL]
Firmin. A man held out a glass to Marcellin Rateau, but Dr. Xavier Bresselles took it away. "Can't you see he's had a skinful, Firmin?" [1953-ECO]
Fischer. 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]
fish. On the kitchen floor: pink hog-fish, blue and green fish M didn't know, sort of sea serpent with red and yellow blotches. [1949-AMI]
Flamande, Brasserie . see: Brasserie Flamande
Flanders . Frans Steuvels had originally come from Flanders. [1949-MME]
Dr. Nobel said that in the villages of Holland, Flanders and the Pas-de-Calais, many town halls had been destroyed or plundered, registers burned. [1965-PAT]
Flandre, Rue de . As all the trains, buses and trams had stopped running, M had to walk along the endless Rue de Flandre, before he came to a livelier part of the city. [1948-PRE]
Pierre Eyraud was first arrested at 20 in a brawl in a bar on the Rue de Flandre. Some time later he'd been dependent on a girl named Ernestine. [1953-TRO]
There'd been a knifing on the Rue de Flandre, and the Countess Louise Paverini, née Louise La Serte's attempted suicide. [1957-VOY]
Flaubert . 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]
Hélène Lange restricted her reading to the first half of the 19th century, grandly dismissing Flaubert, Hugo, Zola, Maupassant. [1967-VIC]
Flea. It was through Manuel Mori that M learned that the informer was the man known as the Flea.... The Flea's real name was Justin Crotton. He was only 4 feet 11, 45-46, had worked as a messenger boy at the Cellar Rat, a cabaret on Place Pigalle which was then very elegant. Then he'd worked in the brasserie on the Rue Victor-Massé where the underworld gang bosses hung out. He was born in Paris, on the Boulevard de la Chapelle. His mother sent him to one of her sisters in Saint-Mesmin-le-Vieux in the Vendée. He came back to Paris when he was 14. [1971-IND]
Flea Market. Léonard Planchon had taken his daughter Isabelle Planchon to the Flea Market in Saint-Ouen on Sunday morning. [1962-CLI]
Fléchier, Bernard. François Ricain had shared a room with Bernard Fléchier, Rue Coquillière, who drove a delivery truck. [1966-VOL]
Fléchier, Rue . Lognon was on a stake-out near the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, at the corner of the Rue Fléchier. Rue Fléchier is in the 3rd [precinct], but he was watching a little bar at the corner of Rue des Martyrs. While he was there a car turned the corner of Rue de Châteaudun, slowed down, tossed a body onto the sidewalk, and drove off down Rue Saint-Lazare. [1951-LOG]
Fleet, Jimmy Van. see: Van Fleet, Jimmy
Flémalle . Gustave Cassin's barge belonged to a cousin in Flémalle. [1932-FLA]
Fleming. Some Flemings went by along the road, talking loudly. [1930-PRO]
As they were in Seine-et-Oise, M had no authority. It would be up to the Versailles police to get a warrant to question the Flemings. [1962-CLO]
M went into Jef Claes room -- the Fleming was not there. [1965-PAT]
Flemish. Joseph Moers, tall young man, thin and red-haired, of Flemish origin. Worked in the laboratories of the Criminal Records Office. Was reconstructing Émile Gallet's burnt documents from the ashes in the fireplace. [1930-GAL]
Joseph Van Damme had been born in Liège of Flemish parents. [1930-31-PHO]
They heard some people say in Flemish that the truth would never be known. [1932-FLA]
Probably the Flemish woman, Laurence Decoin and her butcher were also talking about M. [1947-VAC]
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]
Flem, Le. see: Le Flem
Flem, Philippine, Le. see: Le Flem, Philippine
Fleur d'amour. Jef de Greef's boat, small, green, on which he lived with Anna Bebelmans. [1949-AMI]
Fleuret . Fleuret reported to M on the condition of Feinstein's books. He'd borrowed regularly from Old Ulrich, and secured loans backed by Marcel Basso. [1931-GUI]
Fleurs. One of Justine's houses, at Marseilles. [1949-AMI]
Fleury, Jacques. Jacques Fleury was Auguste Point's parliamentary private secretary. Point had been at Lycée with him and later at the University. Came from Niert, not far from La Roche-sur-Yon. About Point's age. Never passed his law exams. Married, two small children.... Blanche Lamotte got Jacques Fleury a job with her friend Hariel's husband, a commissioner in Les Halles. He quit after three days without a word.... Jacques Fleury had once been seen in Les Halles, counting cabbages coming off a truck. Had a wife and two kids, somewhere towards Vanves. Wife and kids work. Had a girlfriend named Marcelle Luquet, about 40, stout, dark hair, who some say he picked up when she was a cashier in a brasserie in Porte Saint-Martin. For more than a year he'd been seen with Jacqueline Page, 23, sometimes works as a movie extra. They lived together in an apartment on Rue Washington above an Italian grocers. When Lucas went to see her she said two other policemen had already been there.... Had helped Eugène Benoît steal the Calame report. [1954-MIN]
Flophouse Squad. The smell at the Hôtel Beauséjour reminded M of when he had been about Lapointe's age, in the "Flophouse Squad": dirty washing and sweat, unmade beds, slop pails and food warmed up on spirit lamps. [1949-MME]
Floralies . Then Jeanne Grosbois spent two months in Toulon, in the Floralies. [1942-FEL]
Florence. Mme M called her sister, Florence, in Mulhouse. Asked how the children were. [1962-CLO]
Florence . The children had the black hair, knowing faces and long bronzed legs of the street urchins of Naples and Florence. [1946-NEW]
Mrs. Ellen Wilcox had a villa in Italy, Fiesole, on a hill, overlooking Florence. [1949-AMI]
Marco Santoni and Jeanine Armenieu had gone to Florence for their honeymoon. They'd left from Orly. [1954-JEU]
The Pardons had taken a vacation to Italy by car, planning to visit Florence, Rome, Naples, Venice and Milan. [1961-BRA]
Three or four times a year the Maupoises took a trip to Venice, Barcelona, Florence, Naples, Greece, or elsewhere. [1965-PAT]
Florence, Chez . see: Chez Florence
Florence Lenoir. see: Lenoir, Florence
Florence Wilton. see: Wilton, Florence
Florentine. Maria Van Aerts reminded her friend Gertrude Oosting of the painting in the Hague museum, unsigned, but of the Florentine school, of the faun with the naked woman. [1951-GRA]
Florentine, La. see: La Florentine
Florentin, Léon. Old Joseph, the messenger, brought in an engraved visiting card, Léon Florentin, Antique Dealer.... Léon Florentin's face was so flexible it might have been made of india-rubber. [1968-ENF]
Floresco. Mme Roblin, M's neighbor on the fourth floor, had recommended Dr. Floresco, when Mme M needed a dentist. He was a Rumanian, with his office on the third floor of a building on the corner of the Rue Turgot and the Avenue Trudaine, exactly opposite the Place d'Anvers. [1949-MME]
Floria . Philippe Lauer said the day before an arrest warrant had been issued for Pepito Palestrino, proprietor of the Floria, 53 Rue Fontaine - next to the eyeglass shop. M said in his day it was called the Toreador.... Outside the Floria they could see the cap of a police sergeant at the door. [1934-MAI]
Florian. Dr. Florian, who lived on the Avenue Foch, like most society doctors, affected a solemn tone. [1972-CHA]
Florida . Mrs. Mortimer-Levingston's parents were Scots, emigrated to Florida when she was a child. [1929-30-LET]
Michael O'Brien said his wife was in Florida at the moment, and his son was away at college. His daughter had gotten married two years earlier, so his evenings were free. [1946-NEW]
Floride. [Renault Floride, (Caravelle in USA) 1959-1968 ] René Lussac worked for a firm of musical instrument makers and had a car, a Floride.... René Lussac's wife said it was the car that was to blame. He'd set his heart on a Floride, signed some bills... [1961-PAR]
flowers. Berthe's balcony had geraniums, and a canary was hopping about in its cage. [1937-38-BER]
The flowering bushes were so thick that it was like a small jungle: dahlias, lupins, chrysanthemums, other flowers M had only seen reproduced on seed packets. [1949-DAM]
Fly. They'd caught four of the men, including the Fly [Monte-en-l'air], who'd fled to the roof. [1942-FEL]
Flying Squad. For the past month M had been assigned to Rennes to reorganize its mobile unit [Brigade Mobile]. [1931-JAU]
M was talking with the Superintendent Girard of the Le Havre Brigade Mobile, who was officially in charge of the case. [1931-REN]
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]
M picked up the phone and called the Orléans Flying Squad. [1937-38-ETO]
The gentlemen of the Flying Squad had already broadcast Ernst Owen's description. [1938-OWE]
No doubt someone from the Brigade mobile of Orléans would be waiting. [1938-CEU]
A telegram came from the Flying Squad at Nantes. The corpse had been identified at Dr. Émile Janin, 35, Rue des Églises, Nantes. M called Guillaume there for the details. [1940-JUG]
M told Joseph Daumale that if he had nothing to say he might find a visit from an officer of the Brigade Mobile. [Flying Squad] [1946-NEW]
The inspectors of the Flying Squad to which M had been seconded for the past few months had thought Justin was making up a story. [1946-CHO]
Mansuy said he'd notified the Public Prosecutor at La Roche-sur-Yon. He'd insisted on notifying the Flying Squad at Poitiers. [1947-VAC]
Since Police Headquarters is only concerned with Paris and the neighborhood, for the past 5 months, with the Flying Squad, Colombani had been running the investigation of the Picardy Killers. [1947-MOR]
M had telephoned the Le Havre Flying Squad the day before to inform Inspector Castaing of his coming. But he was at Yport for a funeral and couldn't meet his train, so he wanted to meet him at the Hôtel des Anglais for lunch. [1949-DAM]
M called Detective-Sergeant Féret, of the Flying Squad at Nice. He'd worked under M before transferring there because of his wife's health. [1954-JEU]
The Villa Marie-Thérèse had already been visited twice by the Flying Squad. [1956-AMU]
The Toulon Flying Squad reported that Alfred Meurant was still there. [1959-ASS]
Foch, Avenue . The shutters of the private houses on Avenue Foch were still closed as Prosper Donge wheeled his bicycle past. Only an officer trotting along the bridle path. [1939-MAJ]
Oscar Coutant told M that Nicole Prieur was in what they called the Étoile set, drove to school in Jaguars and Ferraris. Most of the group lived near the Arc de Triomphe, Avenue Foch, and so on. [1964-DEF]
Dr. Florian, who lived on the Avenue Foch, like most society doctors, affected a solemn tone. [1972-CHA]
fog. The first fog of the year was an unexpected treat, especially as this was no noxious, yellow, winter fog, but, rather, a milky haze interspersed with haloes of light.... The fog, far from dispersing, was thickening, as M rode the streetcar to Cécile Pardon's.... 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]
A dense yellowish fog had suddenly descended on Paris, which was unusual. M enjoyed it. [1950-NOE]
a kind of yellowish fog seeped in through the chinks in the windows. [1952-BAN]
At the window, Mme M was peering through the fog at the passers-by. [1953-TRO]
By the time he had left the subway at Boulevard Pasteur, the fog had grown thick and yellow, and M could taste its smoky flavor on his lips. [1954-MIN]
The fog was still so thick that M had to turn on the lights in his office. [1969-VIN]
Foire du Trône . Oswald Clark and Ellen Darroman had gone to the Foire du Trône to find a merry-go-round. [1939-MAJ]
Folies-Bergère . Janvier had a glossy photo of Francine Latour, 121 Rue de Longchamp, Passy. He said she was now in the Folies-Bergère. [1947-MOR]
The cab driver, when asked by Loraine Martin who'd sent him, said the Director of the Folies-Bergère. [1950-NOE]
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.... A special delivery letter with a woman's writing and "Very Urgent" had arrived. It asked him to come to the Hôtel de Bretagne, Rue Richier, almost opposite the Folies-Bergère, room 47. Probably signed Mado. [1951-LOG]
Then Germaine Laboine went to the Folies-Bergère, then a tour of South America. [1954-JEU]
Folkestone . The huge glass roof of the Gare du Nord gave no protection from the gusts of wind. A Channel gale was announced. One woman, whose son was crossing to Folkestone, was giving him instructions. [1929-30-LET]
Folletier, Alain de. Philippe Bellamy introduced M to Alain de Folletier, the Examining Magistrate at La Roche-sur-Yon. [1947-VAC]
Fontainebleau . At 17 Joseph Heurtin was a waiter at a fancy hotel in Fontainebleau. [1930-31-TET]
The doctor's car had been spottted on the Fontainebleau road but there'd been no sign of it since.... They thought Marcel Basso might be hiding in Melun or Fontainebleau. [1931-GUI]
Someone asked one of the guests if his wife was still at Fontainebleau. [1932-POR]
There were villas and country houses all the way from the Seine to the forest of Fontainbleau. [1933-ECL]
The taxi ran the little road between Morsang [Morsang-sur-Seine] and Fontainebleau, or more exactly between the Morsang and Citanguette locks, stopping at riverside inns. A roadworker recognized Justin of Toulon's picture. [1941-SIG]
Bernadette Amorelle said she'd come from Orsenne, a small village on the bank of the Seine between Corbeil and the forest of Fontainebleau.... Mimile and Georges-Henry wound up on the road to Orléans, all the way from the Fontainebleau road. [1945-FAC]
The shooting of Countess Panetti took place on the Fontainebleau road. Then they drove on to Lagny to get rid of the car. Schwartz lived in a cottage near there at one time. [1949-MME]
Guillaume Serre said that he and his mother had taken a drive on Sunday towards the Forest of Fontainebleau. [1951-GRA]
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]
On Sundays Léon Florentin nad Joséphine Papet went to the Chevreuse Valley, the Forest of Fontainebleau, sometimes the sea. [1968-ENF]
One of Antoine Batille's tapes was "The Forest at Fontainebleau". [1969-TUE]
Fontaine, Rue . Rue La Fayette. The whitish pillars of the Trinité Church, surrounded by scaffolding. Rue de Clichy. Motimer-Levingston's limousine stopped in the Rue Fontaine, outside Pickwick's Bar.... M noticed a café-tabac at the corner of the Rue Fontaine. [1929-30-LET]
Nine Moinard told M that the stage door of the Moulin Bleu was in the Rue Fontaine. [1931-OMB]
Philippe Lauer said the day before an arrest warrant had been issued for Pepito Palestrino, proprietor of the Floria, 53 Rue Fontaine - next to the eyeglass shop. M said in his day it was called the Toreador. [1934-MAI]
Charlotte had been a night-club hostess, then a dancer, on the Riviera. Worked in a cloakroom in a club on Rue Fontaine.... M went to the Rue Fontaine, to the Pélican, in Montmartre. [1939-MAJ]
Janvier called to say that Jacques Pétillon had just gone into the tobacconist's on Rue Fontaine, seemed very jumpy. That shop was the haunt of some pretty unsavory characters. [1942-FEL]
The first maid appeared to fetch the milk from the Rue Fontaine, next to the tobacconist's.... Dédé told M he'd pick him up on the Rue Fontaine. [1948-PRE]
Location of Caracci's club, where a shooting took place. M was interrogating Caracci when the call about Marcellin's murder came in. [1949-AMI]
The papers talk a lot about the settling of accounts of gangs in Montmartre or around the Rue Fontaine, but those affairs worry the police least. [1950-MEM]
Officer Jussiaume was on duty near Picratt's. He'd taken shelter in a doorway at the corner of Rue Fontaine and Rue Pigalle. Picratt's red sign was one of the few still lit. [1950-PIC]
Philippe Natali, aka Philippi was sentenced to 10 years for murder in a gang killing. Two or three men killed a man from a rival gang in a tobacco shop in Rue de la Fontaine [typo in Eng. for "de la rue Fontaine"]. He died in Fontevrault. [1952-BAN]
Mazotti had been killed coming out of a bar on the Rue Fontaine. [1962-COL]
Three times that week M had been to Manuel Palmari's, the old owner of the Clou Doré on Rue Fontaine. [1964-DEF]
M had many times upbraided Manuel Palmari at the Clou Doré, the bar he had bought on Rue Fontaine and turned into a luxurious restaurant.... Manuel Palmari had picked Aline up on the Rue Fontaine, by a shady hotel. [1965-PAT]
François Paré had followed the red-haired insurance man to a bar on the Rue Fontaine. His card said Jean-Luc Bodard, of Continentale, offices on the Avenue de l'Opéra. [1968-ENF]
Lourtie called from the Rue Fontaine to say Émile Branchu had gone to a striptease club, the Pink Rabbit. [1969-TUE]
M found Le Grand Marcel in Angèle Louette's apartment. Remembered that he'd worked in a bar on Rue Fontaine. [1970-FOL]
Maurice Marcia had been the proprieter of the Sardine, a truly Parisian restaurant on the Rue Fontaine. [1971-IND]
Blanche Bonnard had another club, Le Doux Frisson, in Montmartre, Rue Fontaine. [1972-CHA]
Fontane, Christine. The maiden name of Christine Josset, who was murdered. [1959-CON]
Fontenay . Alain de Folletier said his wife had taken the car to go to Fontenay. [1947-VAC]
Fontenay-aux-Roses . The wounded gangster, Joseph Raison, 42, a metal-fitter, lived in Fontenay-aux-Roses. [1961-PAR]
Fontenay-le-Comte . (Fontenay). Juliette Boynet Boynet (Juliette Marie Jeanne Léontine Boynet née Cazenove). 59. Born Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée. Cécile Pardon's aunt who'd been strangled. Her husband had been a building contractor at Bourg-la-Reine, died before he was 50. About twelve years before her sister had died at Fontenay, and Juliette sent for her three children. ... Émilie Pardon, Juliette Boynet's sister, Cécile's mother. 48 at the time Juliette had met Boynet, who was rich. Married one of the supervisors in the store she worked in in Fontenay. [1940-CEC]
Étienne Naud and his wife and daughter lived about a mile outside the village, and their house almost touched the railway line between Niort and Fontenay-le-Comte.... 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]
M had promised Julien Chabot to stop off and see him at Fontenay-le-Comte on his way back from Bordeaux.... Two murders in three days was a lot in a town of 8,000 inhabitants. [1953-PEU]
Julien Chabot had become magistrate at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he lived with his mother in the large house where he was born. [1954-MIN]
Annette Duché's father, Martin Duché, was head clerk at the Sous-Préfecture at Fontenay-le-Comte. [1959-CON]
Léonard Planchon's wife, Renée Planchon, came from Saint-Sauveur, near Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée, Planchon's mother's town. [1962-CLI]
Fontenay-sous-Bois . Fernand Barillard said he'd worked in a cardboard box factory in Fontenay-sous-Bois before his present job. ... Fernand Barillard moved to Fontenay-sous-Bois with his wife and Jef Claes. [1965-PAT]
Fontevrault . Mariette Gibon had once lived with Philippe Natali, who was sentenced to 10 years for murder in a gang killing. Two or three men killed a man from a rival gang in a tobacco shop in Rue Fontaine. He died in Fontevrault. [1952-BAN]
Philippe de Lancieux had been living for some months with a prostitute named Angèle. He'd told her he'd escaped from Fontevrault where he'd been serving a 20-year sentence. [1961-BRA]
The old gang leaders had gone into retirement on the Marne, in the south, or wound up in the prison at Fontevrault.... Paris was filled with people M had met, who'd vanished for a short time to Fontevrault or Melun. [1965-PAT]
food. M and Aurore Gallet waited 25 minutes at the station at Melun, where M bought a package of sandwiches, some fruit, and a bottle of Bordeaux. [1930-GAL]
M said he'd never had better kidneys à la liégeoise than at the Bécasse, behind the Royal Theater in Liège. [1931-GAI]
M dined off a plate of choucroute and called his office. [1931-GUI]
Mme M had made guiches - the whole house smelt of it. [1932-FLA]
Mme M said she'd make a crème au citron for M. She said they served truffles by the dishful, like fried potatoes at the hotel.... For his last meal at the hotel M ordered the truffes en serviette and foie gras for lunch.... Leduc said he'd lunch at the hotel, that it was always good on Thursdays, Confit d'oie.... M was having lamb cutlets, as he had to avoid heavy food. [1932-FOU]
M went into a restaurant famous for its soles normandes and its tripe à la mode de Caen. [1937-38-BAY]
At Mère Catherine's they had the fricandeau of veal with sorrel... "One of my favorites" said M. [1937-38-NOY]
Not far off was a small restaurant favored by taxi-drivers, and M found fricandeau à l'oseille, veal with sorrel, one of his favorite dishes. He had a bottle of Beaujolais with it, and some Brie.... M went to dinner with his nephew, Jérôme Lacroix, choucroute garnie, sausage, beer, 2nd helping, couple of frankfurters, 3rd beer... [1937-38-BER]
Thérèse asked M if he'd like the mouclade, mussels in cream. M was sure there was a touch of curry in it.... Dinner at the hotel was calves' liver à la bourgeoise. M couldn't abide liver in any form. [1940-JUG]
M had a craving for choucroute garnie, in a brasserie in Montmartre or Montparnasse, with Spencer Oats. [1940-CEC]
choucroute garnie. The waiter brought plates of choucroute garnie and beer to M and Picard at the brasserie. [1941-SIG]
The plat du jour was Navarin printanier, chalked up on the wall. [1942-FEL]
Julie at the Restaurant du Triage told M they had Fricandeau of veal, roast pork with lentils, a nice pâté de compagne to start with. [1946-OBS]
[Albert Rochain]'s last meal had been brandade de morue - creamed salt cod - an apple, white wine, and some spirits. Dr Paul said there were no truffles in the brandade, a dish usually made at restaurants.... Marchand was talking to Georges, the maître d'hôtel at the Chope Montmartre, when M and Colombani arrived. partridge aux choux, small trout, au bleu, some hors d'oeuvre, a soufflé. He said the Châteauneuf was one of only 50 bottles left, he'd reserved for himself. [1947-MOR]
Dinner was bouilabaisse, which M liked. pastis, a banned drink.... tripes à la mode de Caen. Before they left Paris for the investigation of Marcellin's murder, M took Inspector Pyke to Les Halles, "the Market" for tripes à la mode de Caen and crêpes Suzettes, brought in attractive copper chafing-dishes.... crêpes Suzettes. Before they left Paris for the investigation of Marcellin's murder, M took Inspector Pyke to Les Halles, "the Market" for tripes à la mode de Caen and crêpes Suzettes, brought in attractive copper chafing-dishes. [1949-AMI]
There were no mussels on the menu so they ate sardines in oil and celery salad. [1949-DAM]
Mme M had left cooking on the stove: a chicken, a fine red carrot, a big onion, a bunch of parsley with the stems sticking out.... Mme M told M she'd love to go out to dinner and eat potée lorraine.... Since Mme M had been out searching for the hat, she brought back cold food from the Italian place: Parma ham, pickled mushrooms, ready-to-eat hors-d'oeuvres. The dinner reminded M of their first meals together, when she was discovering Paris, and was delighted by all the little ready-to-eat items sold in the Italian shops. [1949-MME]
M felt his throat was still fatty from the mutton stew he'd eaten at the Auvignat's and found so savory.... At the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, he would have gotten up and taken a bicarbonate of soda. [1951-MEU]
Pozzo ordered for M and Lognon, scaloppine alla fiorentina. The cook was Giovanni. [1951-LOG]
brandade de morue. fish brandade, with truffles, the dinner planned at Pardon's. [1952-REV]
cassoulet. The first dinner at Pardons. Others: coq au vin, couscous, sole dieppoise... [1952-REV]
lobster à l'Américaine. M ordered for himself and Alain Lagrange at the grill in the Savoy Hotel in London, along with Rhine wine. Alain didn't drink. M talked about the wheeled carts with roast beef and turkey. [1952-REV]
M ordered the veau Marengo at the Brasserie Dauphine, with a half bottle of claret.... Opposite was the brasserie where he enjoyed going for a dish of choucroute. [1952-BAN]
M took the profiteroles, which he didn't want, and which Mme. Chabot had had set out especially for him, since she'd remembered he'd once said he liked them. [1953-PEU]
M had mutton and beans at Xavier Bresselles', a home-made apple tart and some old wine, followed by calvados. [1953-ECO]
M sat down with Martine Gilloux at Gino's, ordered the hors d'oeuvre and spaghetti milanese. [1956-ECH]
M called out to Mme M to bring him a crawfish scallop, which had been his favorite dish when they were poor and he was too late at the butcher's.... M had ordered friture de goujons, and then andouillette grillée with pommes frites.... There was Normandy sole and roast veal on the chalk menu, so M decided to have dinner there.... When M returned home he was greeted byt a poulet bonnefemme. [1956-AMU]
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