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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 G GA  GE  GI  GL  GO  GR  GU  GY   Gabon. Ernest Combarieu talked constantly about Gabon. His last residence was listed as Libreville, Gabon. [1946-OBS] After Brussels Philippe de Lancieux had gone to Marseilles, then claimed he had a job waiting in Gabon. [1961-BRA] François Keller had gone to Africa, in Gabon, at a station some hundreds of miles from Libreville. [1962-CLO] Gabriel, Avenue. Ellen Darroman and Oswald Clark went to the American Embassy, on Avenue Gabriel, then to Avenue Friedland to see a lawyer, finally to the Palais de Justice to see the Examining Magistrate, Bonneau, the Forensic Laboratory to identify the body, and back to the Majestic. [1939-MAJ] M called the Marquis de Bazancourt, 3 Avenue Gabriel, a wealthy neighborhood with windows looking onto the Champs-Élysées. [1948-PRE] Maître Poupard was one of dozens being entertained at the American Embassy on the Avenue Gabriel. [1969-VIN] Gabriel Dossin. see: Dossin, Gabriel Gabriel Galli. see: Galli, Gabriel Gabrielle, Rue. M. Louis said he'd gone to the Trois Tonneaux, a bistro on the Rue Gabrielle. He'd seen four men playing belote, and one was an ex-officer, Colson. [1971-IND] Gabrielle Vivien. see: Vivien, Gabrielle Gabrielli. The central superintendent, Gabrielli. [1938-CEU] Gadelle, Victor. In a neighboring village, larger than M's, was a doctor with a pointed red beard, Victor Gadelle. He drank and was careless about his person, but was M's father's friend. His wife and 6th or 7th child died in childbirth, which he attended, drunk. His father befriended him, and he attended his mother's confinement. She and the child died. His father was 32. [1950-MEM] Gagnaire. The hotel was very quiet, except when the Gagnaire boys, on the first floor, played in the garden. [1967-VIC] Gai-Moulin. Gai-Moulin, nightclub in Liège. Center of the mystery of the murder of Ephraim Graphopoulos. [1931-GAI] Gaillardin, Roger. Ferdinand Fumal said that Roger Gaillardin, of the "Economic Agencies" might want to kill him, as he'd ruined him. 26 Rue François-Premier. [1956-ECH] Gaillard, Jean-Charles. Maître Jean-Charles Gaillard was Émile Boulay's lawyer.... Jean-Charles Gaillard was as tall and broad-shouldered as the Russian doorman at the Saint-Trop'. He was about 45, florid. Four fingers of his left hand were missing. Blue eyes, fair hair, cropped short. [1962-COL] Gaillard, Jeanine. Jean-Charles Gaillard's wife, Jeanine Gaillard, had been called "the beautiful Lara". Her real name was Jeanine Dupin, but she used the name Jeanine de Lara as a dancer. [1962-COL] Gaillard, Victor. Jean Lenoir told how the man had dumped a body in the Saint-Martin Canal. Afterwards he and Victor had stayed on the man's car till he went to the Place de la République, to a café ... M asked the man in the kitchen of the Guinguette à Deux Sous for his papers. He was Victor Gaillard. Last lived at the Municipal Sanatorium at Gien. [1931-GUI] Gaîté, Rue de la. Dupeu called from the Pickwick, a bistro on Rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse area, near Rue de la Gaîté. [1959-ASS] Galeries du Printemps. In the Rue La Fayette, along the pavement outside the Galeries Lafayette and the Galeries du Printemps there was a dense crowd. [1961-PAR] Galeries Lafayette. Berthe Pardon Pardon. Mlle. Cécile Pardon and Gérard Pardon's younger sister. Salesgirl at the Galeries Lafayette. Concierge had seen her with a man about 30 one day. [1940-CEC] Mme M said it wasn't a hat from the Galeries or the Printemps either. [1949-MME] Loraine Martin had bought a doll for Colette Martin at the Galeries [Lafayette] for Christmas, but not as fine a one as she'd received from "Father Christmas". [1950-NOE] Sometimes when M was in the Galeries [Lafayette], his wife would go there. [1950-MEM] The first time Mme. Crêmieux had had a lodger, a sales-girl at the Galeries [Lafayette], she'd told the concierge to say it was her niece. [1954-JEU] In the Rue La Fayette, along the pavement outside the Galeries Lafayette and the Galeries du Printemps there was a dense crowd. [1961-PAR] When Aline had left the house she'd bought a first-class métro ticket at Ternes station, and walked down the platform towards the Étoile end. When Lourtie got on she slipped off and lost him. She said later she'd planned to go to the Galeries Lafayette, then changed her mind. [1964-DEF] Gal, Le. see: Le Gal Gallet, Aurore. Mme. About 50, unpleasant. Wearing a dress of mauve silk and not a gray hair out of place. Maiden name Aurore Préjean. Had a sister named Françoise. [1930-GAL] Gallet, Émile. (Émile-Yves-Pierre Gallet) , born Nantes 1879, married in Paris October 1902 to Aurore Préjean. One son, Henri Gallet, born Paris, 1906, registered in the 9th Arondissement. M received a telegram from Nevers that Émile Gallet, commercial traveler from Saint-Fargeau, Seine-et-Marne, had been murdered the night of the 25th-26th in the Hôtel de la Loire, Sancerre. His picture at Saint-Fargeau, a long oval face, mouth extremely thin-lipped and wide, wiry hair, pepper-and-salt goatee. Had received a bullet to the head, but died from a knife wound to the heart afterwards.... Gallet told M he had 30,000 francs when they married, had had a difficult time as a child, and spent several years in Indo-China. [1930-GAL] Gallet, Henri. 24. High prominent forehead, thick tortoise-rimmed glasses. Émile Gallet's son. Worked at Sovrino's Bank, 117 Boulevard Beaumarchais. Lived at Hôtel Bellevue, 19 Rue de la Roquette. [1930-GAL] Galli. One of the two principal families of Porquerolles. The other was Morin. [1949-AMI] Gallia. Bébert had been seen the day before at the Gallia cinema. [1933-ECL] Gallièra. Manessi said Norris Jonker attended art sales at Hôtel Drouot, Gallièra, Sotheby's and New York. [1963-FAN] Galli, Ferdinand. Two old men were playing bowls, pétanque style, without sending the jack more than a few yards from their feet. One was Ferdinand Galli, the patriarch of the Gallis, who kept a café on the square. [1949-AMI] Galli, Gabriel. The Cormorant did regular service to Porquerolles from Giens Point, at 8 am and 5pm only. So Inspector Lechat had asked Gabriel Galli to bring him over. [1949-AMI] Galli, Mme. Mme. Galli had come into the post office to buy stamps, and so Aglaé, the postmistress hadn't heard the entire conversation between Marcellin and Ginette. [1949-AMI] Gallois, Mauricette. Mauricette Gallois had been Antoine Batille's girlfriend. A waitress in a café on the Rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile. Antoine bought a pack of Gitanes there every day. She had two brothers, one in the army in Germany, one in Lyons, where her father came from. Lived on the Rue Saint-Paul. Used to work in a department store but couldn't stand it. [1969-TUE] Gal, Sophie, Le. see: Le Gal, Sophie Galvani. Étienne Naud placed a call to Galvani 17.98, Victor Bréjon's home phone number. [1943-CAD] Moers had found "GAL" on the paper from Pozzo's. A phone number, Galvani exchange, 27... That was in the Avenue de la Grande-Armée zone. [1951-LOG] Gambier. Honoré Cuendet was defended by Maître Gambier, a young barrister who later became one of the stars of his profession, and got a minimal sentence.... Fernand said his solicitor was Maître Gambier. [1961-PAR] Gambling Squad. Oscar said he had a cousin on his wife's side who was in the Gambling Squad and used to give him tips. [1931-NUI] M told Lapointe to check with the Gambling Squad and Narcotics about the Countess von Farnheim. [1950-PIC] Superintendent Bernard was head of the Gambling Squad. Was reporting when M came in late for the morning meeting. [1964-DEF] Gaming Act. At the Brasserie Dauphine M noticed a colleague from Records Department, someone from the Ministry of the Interior, a Gaming Act Inspector... [1966-VOL] Gaming Squad. It was 7:50 when Martin of the Gaming Squad left his office, and he was surprised to see the corridor full of photographers and journalists. [1936-BEA] "Big games?" asked M. Louis of an inspector of the Gaming Squad. [1938-OWE] Gand. Frans Steuvels' mother had been a prostitute at Gand. Had seven or eight children, often not knowing who the father was. She called herself Mosselaer. Frans Steuvels chose his name later. Had possibly died. [1949-MME] Garage Moderne. On the Avenue de la Grande-Armée Jean-Charles Gaillard had gone into the Garage Moderne, near the Porte Maillot. [1962-COL] Garcin. Manuel Mori called his lawyer, Maître Garcin. [1971-IND] Garden. Germain said the manager's brother was selling programs at the Garden. [1946-NEW] gardénal. see: Seconol Gardénal. These things happened so frequently in the luxury hotels that if they got a call from the 16th, someone would invariably ask, "downs?", meanining barbituates [Gardénal]. [1957-VOY] Gare d'Austerlitz. Canonge had taken the 8:22 train to Paris to see M. He arrived at Gare d'Austerlitz at 12:22 [1955-COR] Martin Duché had stayed at the Hôtel de la Reine et de Poitiers, near the Gare d'Austerlitz. [1959-CON] Gare de Guillemins. At 8 in the morning M left the Hôtel du Chemin de Fer, facing the Guillemins station, in Liège. [1930-31-PHO] Liège train station. René Delfosse had spent the night at Chez Jeanne, the small café behind the Gare de Guillemins. He'd made for the Gare des Guillemins from Adèle Bosquet's room, and headed for the ticket office. [1931-GAI] Gare de l'Est. M checked a timetable to make sure of the 12:10 from Gare de l'Est he'd take to meet his wife in Alsace. [1931-GUI] When Joseph Leroy had run from the house he'd run except when he was near the Bastille, since there were some policemen around. Then he'd gone to the Gare de l'Est and got the idea of going to Chelles. [1945-PIP] The Strasbourg train would leave from the Gare de l'Est in about 20 minutes. [1948-PRE] Mouthon, M's brother-in-law arrived when once a year at the Gare de l'Est when he came to Paris with his wife, Mme M's sister. [1949-AMI] The Gare de l'Est was depressing, as it reminded him of mobiliazation. [1950-MEM] There was not much life in the streets, except around the Gare de l'Est and the Gare du Nord, which always reminded M of his early years on the police force. [1953-TRO] A few hundred yards from the canal. M wondered if the head might be found there, in a suitcase at a baggage checkroom, or at the Gare du Nord, not much further away. M suddenly decided to check for Omer Calas' suitcase the Gare de l'Est, close to the Quai de Valmy. [1955-COR] Gare de Lyon. M left for Saint-Fargeau from the Gare de Lyon. [1930-GAL] At the Gare de Lyons they were running double services, it was so busy. [1931-GUI] M calculated that Marie Vassilief's train must have arrived half an hour earlier at the Gare de Lyon. [1932-FIA] Oswald Clark had taken Désiré's taxi, usually outside the Majestic, presumably to the Gare de Lyon to go to Rome.... When Ellen Darroman had reached the Grands Boulevards, she'd rushed in the métro, then to Gare de Lyon to meet Oswald J. Clark. [1939-MAJ] . In the cafés around the Gare de Lyon there was a delecious smell of beer and croissants dipped in coffee. [1945-FAC] M and Janvier took an open taxi to Juvisy, though they really should have gone to the Gare de Lyon and taken the train. [1946-OBS] M told Coméliau he'd checked the Gare de Lyon for fresh paint, since it's the continuation of the Bastille district, as it were. [1947-MOR] There was still the train for Belgium from the Gare du Nord, and one to Vintimille from the Gare de Lyon. But Vintimille was a long way away. [1948-PRE] Gare de Lyons was the station of departure for M and Inspector Pyke. M took two wagon-lits on the "Blue Train". M slept well anywhere. M Awoke to olive trees on the edge of the Rhône, and knew they'd passed Avignon. [1949-AMI] The Gare de Lyon and the Gare Montparnasse reminded M of vacations. [1950-MEM] Louis Thouret usually caught the 6:22 home from the Gare de Lyon. [1952-BAN] They went past the Gare de Lyon, where a train had just come in. [1954-JEU] M had once met Eugène Benoît at the Gare de Lyon, when he was on his way to go fishing. [1954-MIN] One Saturday evening M had been called to the Gare de Lyon. From the Quai des Orfèvres to the station had taken half an hour in one of the squad cars, it was so jammed. [1956-AMU] M told John Arnold Countess Louise Paverini was arriving at the Gare de Lyon at 7:00. [1957-VOY] Janvier called that Gaston Meurant was at the Gare de Lyon, with a 2nd class ticket to Toulon.... Lapointe called from the Gare de Lyon. Gaston Meurant had arrived. [1959-ASS] Julien Baud said as soon as he'd gotten off the train at the Gare de Lyon he'd realized that in Paris it was everyone for himself. [1968-HES] Gare de Montparnasse. The girl who called M said she was 18, the daughter of a magistrate at La Rochelle. Her friend met her at the Gare de Montparnasse, with Marco, a man she said was her fiancé. [1964-DEF] François Ricain said he remembered passing the Gare de Montparnasse, drinking white wine there or on the Boulevard Saint-Michel. [1966-VOL] Gare de Saint-Pierre. M caught his train with only seconds to spare. Then he had to hang about at the Gare de Saint-Pierre from midnight till two in the morning. [1940-JUG] Gare d'Orléans. Since M had already had coffee at the Gare d'Orléans, he ordered a beer. [1937-38-BER] Gare d'Orsay. Carl Anderson and his sister had gone to Paris from Arpajon station, and were picked up at the Gare d'Orsay. [1931-NUI] Late that afternoon M took the train at the Gare d'Orsay for Villefranche-en-Dordogne. There was a chgange at Libourne, except for the sleeping cars. [1932-FOU] M kissed his wife goodbye at the door of the carriage at the Gare d'Orsay. [1933-ECL] M arrived at the Gare d'Orsay, then his apartment on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. He changed buses at the stop nearest to Police Headquarters, and from there he could see the window that had once been his. [1940-JUG] Canonge stayed at the Hôtel d'Orsay. Before the war, when the Gare d'Orsay was the terminus for all trains on the Paris-Orléans line, the restaurant had been open all night. [COR] [1955-COR] Gare du Nord. 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.... M hailed a taxi from the Gare du Nord to the Majestic Hotel. The Champs-Élysées looked like a deserted racetrack. Pietr had just checked into room 17. [1929-30-LET] [Brussels]. Louis Jeunet had bought a ticket to Amsterdam at the Gare du Nord. M followed. At Amsterdam he bought a third-class ticket for Bremen. [1930-31-PHO] M stopped for tobacco at the Gare du Nord, where someone stole one of the suitcases. [1930-31-PHO] Instead of going to Le Bourget, to fly to London, Ephraim Graphopoulos went to the Gare du Nord and bought a train ticket to Berlin. [1931-GAI] Edgar Martin had left Paris via the Gare du Nord. [1931-OMB] They crossed the railway line near the Gare du Nord. It was half past two. [1934-MAI] At 8:30 M, making no attempt to hide, also sat down at the brasserie near the Gare du Nord. [1936-PEI] When M alighted from his taxi in the Rue de Maubeuge, near the Gare du Nord, there were no onlookers by the door of the hotel. [1937-38-ETO] Lucas came to take over from Janvier, who was sitting with M in a brasserie opposite the Gare du Nord. [1939-HOM] After lunch at Désiré's with Spencer Oats, they walked to the corner of the Avenue d'Orléans, where M hailed a taxi to the Quai des Orfèvres. Halfway there he changed his mind, and had the taxi take them to the Gare du Nord, Inter-City arrivals to meet Gérard Pardon.... The two policemen who brought Gérard back to the Gare du Nord in Paris had come from Feignes. 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] 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.... Colombani would go to the Gare du Nord to get the little girl coming in, the survivor of the Manceau farm attack. [1947-MOR] There was still the train for Belgium from the Gare du Nord, and one to Vintimille from the Gare de Lyon. But Vintimille was a long way away. [1948-PRE] Lucas told M that another report of the child-sighting had come in from the Avenue Denfert-Rochereau. And one from Gare du Nord, which Torrence had gone to check. [1949-MME] The driver who'd picked up Loraine Martin at the juncture of the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir and the Boulevard Voltaire, and had dropped her at Rue de Maubeuge, where it passes the Gare du Nord, in front of a luggage shop. [1950-NOE] But the Gare du Nord, the coldest, busiest of them all, brought to mind a harsh and bitter struggle for one's daily bread. In the morning, the first night trains, coming from Belgium and Germany, generally contained a number of smugglers. [1950-MEM] Lognon had found Philippe Mortemart at the Gare du Nord. [1950-PIC] Alfred Jussiaumecalled Ernestine Jussiaume from a little café near the Gare du Nord to tell her he'd seen a woman's body in the room.... Mme. Serre said her daughter-in-law had left for Holland on the 9:40 from Gare du Nord. [1951-GRA] M found a small police car in the courtyard, gve the address on Place Constantin-Pequeur. It was about as gay on the streets as under the glass dome of the Gare du Nord.... Baron said he'd found a place open near the Gare du Nord when he'd driven around with Harry Pills.... The car was found in the morning near the Gare du Nord. [1951-LOG] Lucas was waiting at the police station at Gare du Nord, after he'd found the taxi driver who had taken François Lagrange there. M and Lucas took the trunk, containing André Delteil's body,. to Jussieu's laboratory. ... Alain Lagrange was probably still in the Gare du Nord and Boulevard de la Chapelle area after he robbed Gaston Grimal. [1952-REV] There was not much life in the streets, except around the Gare de l'Est and the Gare du Nord, which always reminded M of his early years on the police force. [1953-TRO] [Brussels] Albert Falconi said he told him the best hotel was the Palace, opposite the Gare du Nord. [1954-JEU] A taxi driver had called who believed he'd driven Jules Piquemal to the Gare du Nord. [1954-MIN] There was more traffica at Orly than at the Gare du Nord or the Gare Saint-Lazare. [1957-VOY] M imagined that Roger Prou could have been a pimp... not at the Étoile, but at Porte Saint-Denisor Bastille... or he could organize warehouse burglaries around Gare du Nord... [1962-CLI] M asked Évelina Nahour if she'd driven to the Gare du Nord. [1966-NAH] Théo Stiernet had been found the next morning on a bench in the Gare du Nord. [1969-VIN] Gare, Hôtel de la. see: Hôtel de la Gare Gare Montparnasse. The Gare de Lyon and the Gare Montparnasse reminded M of vacations. [1950-MEM] A man with a large suitcase (Désiré Boursicault) had left in the morning by taxi for the Gare Montparnasse, from the house opposite Mlle. Clément's. [1951-MEU] A false alarm - they'd thought they'd found Albert Jorisse in the waiting room of the Gare Montparnasse, but it wasn't him. [1952-BAN] M asked Lapointe to call the station to find out the times of the Poitiers trains, and inquire about Omer Calas. Weekday train left at 4:48. [1955-COR] M hesitated between heading for the Lion of Belfort and going down Avenue de Maine in the direction of the Gare Montparnasse. [1957-SCR] Gare, Quai de la. M and Lucas got out of a taxi on the Quai de la Gare, beyond the Pont d'Austerlitz with Cerise, the ragged old cripple who'd discovered Maurice Tremblet's place. [1946-PAU] M picked up the phone. Lachaume, Quai de la Gare, Ivry... [1958-TEM] Gare Saint-Charles. M was shaving when the call came in from the Gare Saint-Charles. He was still on the train, Gaston Meurant really was going to Toulon. [1959-ASS] At Marseilles, while the train was shunting in the Gare Saint-Charles, M listened with relish to the lilt in the voices of the people.... [1970-FOL] Gare Saint-Lazare. Pietr did not try to escape M at Saint-Lazare station.... It was a long walk from Saint-Lazare station to Hôtel de Ville. Pietr took the shortest route, down the Rue du Quatre-Septembre, and through Les Halles. [1929-30-LET] Crowds of people were hurrying towards the Gare Saint-Lazare. [1931-GUI] At the Gare Saint-Lazare there had been a notice: Storm in the Channel, Dieppe-Newhaven crossing may be delayed. [1937-38-MAN] The taxi with M and Octave Le Cloaguen struggled through the crowds around the Gare Saint-Lazare and started up Rue de Rome. [1941-SIG] First Félicie changed trains at the Place de la Concorde, then Gare Saint-Lazare.... 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] Désiré Campois was on his way to the Gare Saint-Lazare with his grandson Jean. [1945-FAC] The Le Havre train, which could have taken them to a Channel steamer, left the Gare Saint-Lazare ten minutes earlier. [1948-PRE] M had taken the métro to Gare Saint-Lazare at 5:00, as he hadn't found a taxi, left the Paris-Le Havre train at a small, depressing station, Bréauté-Beuzeville, where he waited for his connection to Étretat. [1949-DAM] Georges Peskine, a taxi driver, naturalized Russian, picked up three men near Gare Saint-Lazare and took them to the corner of Rue de Turenne and Rue des Francs-Bourgeois Saturday night. [1949-MME] Désiré was the waiter at Picratt's. Lived in the suburbs. Took a train at Gare Saint-Lazare in the morning to go home. [1950-PIC] Mlle. Poré said she'd seen Jeanine Armenieu once at Saint-Lazare station, when she was going to Mantes-la-Jolie for the day. The train next to hers was a Pullman for Deauville, and she'd seen her in the window. [1954-JEU] Joseph Mascoulin gave his statement to Lapointe in the Columns Room. Lapointe said it was just like Gare Saint-Lazare! [1954-MIN] Muriel Britt had been staying with the others in a hotel near the Gare Saint-Lazare. [1956-ECH] There was more traffica at Orly than at the Gare du Nord or the Gare Saint-Lazare. [1957-VOY] Xavier Marton had made an exact model of the Saint-Lazare Station for the window of the Grands Magasins du Louvre. Had had to go to Germany and Switzerland to buy some of the material. [1957-SCR] Gassin. Someone said the man in the water was Gassin.... Gassin said that Émile Ducrau and he came from the same village.... Gassin's body hung dark and limp against the wall. The rope must not have been very strong, for at the first touch it broke, and the body of the old man fell on the ground. [1933-ECL] Gassin, Aline. Gassin's daughter, Aline Gassin, tried to get the bottle away from him.... Émile Ducrau said he'd suspect Aline Gassin too, but his tone was different. [1933-ECL] Gassin de Beaulieu. see: Beaulieu, Gassin de Gassin, Gérard. Motte said he knew Gérard Donavant's real name was Gassin, he'd told him himself. [1937-38-NOT] Gastambide. The Examining Magistrate, Gastambide, had decided to put Philippe Lauer under arrest. [1934-MAI] Gastambides. The Gastambides maid said Rita didn't know how to crochet. [1937-38-AMO] Gastin, Germaine. Charles Chevassou was a municipal councillor in Courbevoie, a handome man. tall and strong, with black hair and a southern accent., who'd had an affair with Germaine Gastin. His wife had shot at Mme. Gastin and been acquitted. [1953-ECO] Gastin, Jean-Paul. Jean-Paul Gastin, 13, Joseph Gastin's son, owned a rifle, a .22, which he'd bought him for Christmas. [1953-ECO] Gastin, Joseph. Joseph Gastin, schoolmaster, Saint-André-sur-Mer, was in the waiting room. "rat-faced", thin, bare receding forehead crowned by a fluff of reddish hair. [1953-ECO] Gastinne-Renette. M had the taxi take him to see Gastinne-Renette, the gunsmith. [1942-FEL] The report of the ballistics expert, Gastinne-Renette was that the 12 mm lead bullet had been fired with an air-gun of the type used in fairgrounds. [1946-PAU] The bullet that killed Ernest Combarieu had been sent to Gastinne-Renette, the ballistics expert. [1946-OBS] M told Dambois to have the revolver checked for fingerprints, then sent to the expert Gastinne-Renette. [1946-MAL] Gastinne-Renette, the small-arms expert submitted his report at 11:00 am. The bullet that wounded Janvier had been from a large-bore revolver, probably a Colt. [1951-MEU] gunsmith. Torrence had found a gunsmith on the Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle, where a young man (Alain Lagrange) had gone to search for ammunition for the .45 Smith & Wesson. They had sent him to Gastinne-Renette, where he had bought some. [1952-REV] Lapointe said Gastinne-Renette had called to say the bullet that killed Louise Filon had been fired from a .25 automatic, an "amateur's weapon". [1953-TRO] M asked Dr. Tudelle if he'd sent the bullets to Gastinne-Renette. A .301 bullet in a nickel-plated copper envelope, probably from a Browning automatic. [1960-VIE] M called Lucas to have him go to the hospital and get the bullets, to take over to the Forensic Laboratory. Formerly that sort of work had been done by an outside consultant, a man named Gastinne-Renette, [typo: Gastienne] but the Criminal Investigation Department now had the own ballistics expert, up in the attic of the Palais de Justice. [1963-FAN] M called Gastinne-Renette to get the report on the gun that killed Manuel Palmari. [1965-PAT] M told Moers to send the gun to Gastinne-Renette [Gastine in Penguin] and to send the bullet he'd gotten from Pardon with it. [1966-NAH] M told Moers to send the bullet they'd found to Gastinne-Renette.... The frogmen had found the Belgian-made 6.35 automatic in the Seine. M had it sent to Gastinne-Renette. [1966-VOL] The pathologist had sent the bullet to Gastinne-Renette. [1968-ENF] Gastinne-Renette was the gunsmith who usually gave ballistic advice to the Police Judiciaire. When they got there, the shop assistant went to fetch his employer. The two men had known each other for 20 years. [1972-CHA] Gaston. A man on the street where Ernest Combarieu was shot. [1946-OBS] Mme. Aubain-Vasconcelos said her son-in-law, Gaston, hadn't been sleeping there for some time. [1947-MOR] Gaston, the concierge at the Raphael Hotel. M had to wait for an old lady to check a flight arrival time from Buenos Aires before he could talk to him. [1966-VOL] Jean or Pierre or Gaston... M imagined the murderer's wife's surprise... [1967-VIC] Victor Macoulet called the bartender Gaston. [1971-IND] Gaston Buzier. see: Buzier, Gaston Gaston Courcel. see: Courcel, Gaston Gaston Grimal. see: Grimal, Gaston Gaston Janin. see: Janin, Gaston Gaston Jeunet. see: Jeunet, Gaston Gaston Joublin. see: Joublin, Gaston Gaston Legrand. see: Legrand, Gaston Gaston Magine. see: Magine, Gaston Gaston Mauran. see: Mauran, Gaston Gaston Meurant. see: Meurant, Gaston Gaston Nouveau. see: Nouveau, Gaston Gaston Rouget. see: Rouget, Gaston Gaston Rougier. see: Rougier, Gaston Gaston Trochain. see: Trochain, Gaston Gasworks. Edgar Fagonet's family had lived in the Gasworks section of Lille. [1939-MAJ] Gaudois. Mme Gaudois, who kept a little grocery just opposite the Pont National, had seen a little red sportscar parked a few yards from her shop. Driver about 40, yellow raincoat, brown hat, mustache. Paulette Lachaume had gotten into the car. [1958-TEM] Gaudry. Mme. Gaudry was a tenant in Auguste Point's building who'd seen a man going into his apartment. Husband worked in a bank on Boulevard des Italiens. Little boy of 5, Bob. [1954-MIN] Gaudry, Bob. Mme. Gaudry's 5-year-old son. [1954-MIN] Gauge. In one of Isabelle de V--'s letters she said the Abbé Gauge had visited and talked about Armand de Saint-Hilaire. [1960-VIE] Gauguin. Chinquier recognized some of the paintings at Norris Jonker's -- Gauguin, Cézanne, Renoir. [1963-FAN] Gaulois. 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] Gauloises. M asked Léon for some Gauloises bleus for Pietr. [1929-30-LET] Joseph Audiat asked the cashier for a pack of Gauloises. [1934-MAI] There was a pack of Gauloise cigarettes in Louis Thouret's pocket. [1952-BAN] Dr. Paul smoked incessantly. During a single autopsy would smoke as many as two packs of Bleues Gauloises. [1955-COR] Gaston Mauran took a pack of Gauloises out of his pocket. [1962-COL] M bought a pack of Gauloises for François Ricain in Le Métro. [1966-VOL] Gautier. Maurice de Saint-Fiacre pointed out the steward, Gautier, who had gone out hunting. [1932-FIA] Gautier, Émile. Émile Gautier, the steward's son, went by on a motorcycle. [1932-FIA] Gay-Lussac, Rue. They had to walk as far as Rue Gay-Lussac from Cochin to find a taxi.... Mlle. Isabelle lived on the 2nd floor at Mlle. Clément's. Typist in an office on the Rue Montmartre. In the mornings usually ate a croissant in the Rue Gay-Lussac.... Mlle.. Clément did her shopping there, like everyone in the neighborhood. There were shops in the Rue Gay-Lussac, but more expensive. And the butcher in the Rue Saint-Jacques wasn't as good. [1951-MEU] M went by taxi to the Rue Gay-Lussac, to see Maître Orin; the tall trees in the Luxembourg Gardens swayed in the breeze. [1951-GRA] Mme. Thévenard lived with her nephew in Rue Gay-Lussac. [1952-BAN] Gay Nineties. It was the Gay Nineties, what in Paris were called the bastringues. [1946-NEW] Gazette de Liège. The Catholic paper in Liège, the Gazette de Liège. Jean Chabot forgot to deliver the notices to their office. ... headline "Corpse found in wicker basket" being hawked as Jean headed back to his office. ... Announced "Crime committed by two young sinners." [1931-GAI] Geber et Bachelier. Solicitors office in the Rue de Rivoli where Monique Thouret worked.... Santoni reported to M that it was a debt collection agency, and that Monique Thouret had a boyfriend, Albert Jorisse. [1952-BAN] Gégène. Next, Gégène, a petty pimp from Montmartre, who had wounded his girl with a knife. [1945-PIP] Gellet. Tiburce de Saint-Hilaire, asked M if Émile Gallet's name were Grelet or Gellet, pretending he didn't know. [1930-GAL] Gellet et Mautoison. The man at the restaurant who'd recognized Félicie, No. 13, was M. Charles, Gellet et Mautoison, leather goods, 17B Avenue de Wagram. [1942-FEL] Gellhorn. Dr. Gellhorn, from Cologne, 35, glasses, cropped head, wooden features: an archaeologist. [1936-ARR] Gélot. M spoke with M. Gélot, one of the sons at Gélot and Sons. [1965-PAT] Lesage & Gélot. Painting and Decorating, 25, Boulevard des Batignolles. Sign on the panel truck driven at the time of Nina Lassave's murder by Louis Mahossier, which had led to his being found. M. Lesage wasn't there, but they interviewed M. Gélot, who told him Louis Mahossier, 26, worked for them. [1971-SEU] Gélot and Sons. Fernand Barillard worked for Gélot and Sons, Avenue des Gobelins. [1965-PAT] Génaro. Génaro, the proprieter of the Gai-Moulin. Short, thick-set Italian, who had worked in bars and hotels at Cannes, Nice, Biarritz and Paris. Brought Adèle Bosquet with him from Paris when she was down and out. Involved in a spy ring in Liège. [1931-GAI] Genaro. Police caught one of the jewel robbers from what was probably Manuel Palmari's gang, some years back, an inexperienced boy named Genaro, who didn't talk, and got 5 years. [1964-DEF] Gendreau-Balthazar. The most distinguised name in the whole district was that of the people living at 17a, Rue Chaptal: Gendreau-Balthazar. Balthazar Coffee. [1948-PRE] Gendreau-Balthazar, Lise. Richard Gendreau-Balthazar said his sister, Lise Gendreau-Balthazar, was at Anseval, the Château d'Anseval, near Pouilly-sur-Loire, in the Nièvre. [1948-PRE] Gendreau-Balthazar, Richard. Louis Viaud said M. Richard Gendreau-Balthazar, the son, had been in bed a long time already.... Richard Gendreau-Balthazar was wearing Russian leather slippers over his bare feet. He was about 30. [1948-PRE] Gendreau, Félicien. Louis Viaud said M. Félicien Gendreau, the father, was not yet in.... Félicien Gendreau had married Hector Balthazar's daughter. In her picture she had her hair drawn back low on the neck, a profile like the Empress Eugénie's, her face as cold as her father's.... The servants called Félicien Gendreau 'Old Chips' or sometimes "Moustachios'. Albert was his private valet. [1948-PRE] General Canal Company. The traffic is divided between two companies, the General Canal Company and the Association of Central Canals. [1933-ECL] General Information. At the Brasserie Dauphine M asked the superintendent of General Information what he'd drink. Someone said mandarin-curaçao. It was the first time M had tasted it, the first of many rounds. [1950-MEM] A colleague from General Information was discussing a Senator's daughter who'd got herself into an awkward situation. [1953-ECO] M said the Crime Squad was less important, in the eyes of the Minister of the Interior, than General Information [Renseignements Généraux] or the Financial Section. [1961-PAR] General Information had requested that Raoul Lardois turn a blind eye to the Saint-Michel Club. [1966-NAH] General Navigation Company. There were a few barges under repair in front of the General Navigation Company yards. [1930-PRO] General Surveillance. General Surveillance in Paris had been interested in Alfred Moss, working as Joseph Thomas, shuttling between France and Belgium, about gold-trafficking. [1949-MME] Genestoux. 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] Geneva. Germaine Devon made a call to a Mr. Smith [Saft] at the Hôtel des Bergues in Geneva. [1938-OWE] Maître Ballu remembered that when he'd first met Amorelle, around the time of the Exposition of 1900, he'd asked him if he were connected to the Amorelles of Geneva, an old Protestant family. [1945-FAC] Louise Paverini had caught the Swissair plane for Geneva on arrival at Nice. [1957-VOY] Honoré Cuendet's sister, Laurence Cuendet, had been sent to Geneva as a barmaid, had married someone, perhaps a translator, from UNESCO, and gone to South America with him. [1961-PAR] There'd been one flight to Amsterdam, one to India via Geneva. [1966-NAH] Geneviève Blanchet. see: Blanchet, Geneviève Geneviève Blanchon. see: Blanchon, Geneviève Geneviève Lavancher. see: Lavancher, Geneviève Geneviève Naud. see: Naud, Geneviève Genévrier. Mlle. Genévrier, the nurse, was on her way down... Gray haired, gray-faced, she tapped at the door for form's sake. [1957-VOY] Genil-Perrin. M had seen some of them (Sengés, Levy-Valensi, Maxwell) quoted in the journals of the International Society of Criminology. And he had in fact read the works of others, Lagache, Ruyssen, Genil-Perrin. [1968-HES] Genlis, Robert. Called Robert. Assistant head waiter at Chez Pharamond. Testified that he saw Louis Mahossier eat there the night of the murder. [1971-SEU] Genoa. Old Benoît was from Italy, but by accent probably not Genoa or Naples. [1949-AMI] Genoese. A barber with a Genoese accent explained that he'd seen the accident. [1946-NEW] Gentil. They had to wait for Gentil, the excisman, to make the fourth for cards, or else Julia would take a hand. [1939-VEN] Génuvier. A friend of Gus Parendon's, came sometimes to listen to music with him. Father was a patissier on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. [1968-HES] Genviève. Genviève, the new girl at Picratt's who replaced Arlette. 23. Was going to be called Dolly. [1950-PIC] Georges. Marchand was talking to Georges, the maître d'hôtel at the Chope Montmartre, when M and Colombani arrived. [1947-MOR] Pepito Giovanni asked Georges to bring two Tom Collins, for M and Marella. [1970-FOL] Georges-Henry Malik. see: Malik, Georges-Henry George Sand. see: Sand, George Georges Bachelier. see: Bachelier, Georges Georges Bompard. see: Bompard, Georges Georges-Clemenceau, Rue. [Vichy] Except for the blare of a horn in the Rue Georges-Clemenceau, one could almost believe that time at Vichy stood still.... M found the bookstore on the Rue Georges-Clemenceau where Hélène Lange had borrowed her books. Owner was originally from Montparnasse. [1967-VIC] Georges Dennery. see: Dennery, Georges Georges Macagne. see: Macagne, Georges Georges Peskine. see: Peskine, Georges Georges Sim. see: Sim, Georges Georges Simenon. see: Simenon, Georges Georges Vassal. see: Vassal, Georges Georges Wurmster. see: Wurmster, Georges Georget. The letter from Émile Duffieux was written on paper with the heading of the local printers, Larue et Georget. [1947-VAC] Georgette. Jeanne Debul's maid. 22, 6 years in Paris. blonde, rosy complexioned, ample breasts. Worked almost 2 years for Jeanne Debul. Had once worked in the Place Saint-Georges area with a kept woman. [1952-REV] Georgette Lecoin. see: Lecoin, Georgette George-V, Avenue. William Kirby had been living in a grand hotel [Hôtel George-V] on the Avenue George-V for the last few years. [1930-31-TET] M emerged from the métro into the Champs-Élysées, walked down Avenue George-V to the hotel, where a giant in uniform stared at him in surprise as he pushed the revolving door. [1957-VOY] Walter Carus had rented a furnished studio in a new apartment house on the corner of Avenue George-V and the Rue François-Premier for his meetings with Sophie Ricain. [1966-VOL] George-V, Hôtel. see: Hôtel George-V Georgian. Bogdanowsky, a roomer at the Émile Chabot's, a Georgian student. Claimed to be an aristocrat. Strong Slavic accent, very shiny eyes. [1931-GAI] Gerald Conley. see: Conley, Gerald Géraldine. Joe Fazio had another girlfriend, called Géraldine. [1972-CHA] Geraldine Léonard. see: Léonard, Geraldine Gérard. René Delfosse couldn't remember if it was Gérard or Girard. (It was Girard.) Liège Sûreté plainclothesman following Delfosse. [1931-GAI] Reported in to the Police Emergency Center from the 18e that someone had jumped or fallen out of a window. [1941-SIG] The chief-inspector entered, asked Gérard to check on Dédé. [1948-PRE] Judge Libart told Gérard to make out a warrant for Angèle Louette's arrest. [1970-FOL] Gérard Aubin. see: Aubin, Gérard Gérard Batille. see: Batille, Gérard Gérard Deligeard. see: Deligeard, Gérard Gérard Donavant. see: Donavant, Gérard Gérard Dramin. see: Dramin, Gérard Gérard Duffieux. see: Duffieux, Gérard Gérard Gassin. see: Gassin, Gérard Gérardier. Joseph Heurtin rode a 3-wheeler delivering flowers for M. Gérardier, florist, Rue de Sèvres. [1930-31-TET] Gérard Pardon. see: Pardon, Gérard Gérard Piedboeuf. See: Piedboeuf, Gérard [1932-FLA] Gérard Sabin-Levesque. see: Sabin-Levesque, Gérard Gérard Tremblet. see: Tremblet, Gérard Gerbert. Sûreté inspector Gerbert was checking out the suicide at the Quai de Coronmeuse. [1931-GAI] Germain. Éléonore Boursang, Henri Gallet's mistress, had been on holiday staying at the Pension Germain boarding house on the road from Sancerre to Saint-Thibaut. [1930-GAL] Germain. The other lodger had been a stonemason, with a house at Montluçon, M. Germain. [1945-PIP] Germain had told Ronald Dexter that he had a friend, a medium, who might help. [1946-NEW] One of the two policemen who'd come up told Germain that what M said was true. [1948-PRE] Ada Farano told a new waiter, Germain, not to put the ice in the buckets yet. [1962-COL] Germain Cageot. see: Cageot, Germain Germain, Céline. M found the girl he'd bumped into on the stairs, Céline Germain, 19, Rue des Saules, Orléans. ... Céline Germain's real name was Geneviève Blanchon, the daughter of Judge Blanchon. [1937-38-ETO] Germaine. Groslin, the reporter for the Petit Parisien, arrived at the Admiral Hotel, called Mlle. Germaine at his office. [1931-JAU] Oscar's wife, Germaine. [1931-NUI] M could have gone out through the bright dining room, where Germaine, the fat maid with the amazing bosom, was busy polishing the furniture.... The owner of the leather goods shopped called his wife Germaine out to meet M. She said Odette Bellamy regularly went to Olga's, the dressmaker across the street. [1947-VAC] The oldest of the women, Germaine, had brought Victor Ricou his dinner in the lodge.... Germaine, who did the heavy cleaning, had been born in Saint-Fiacre, where her brother was a small farmer. Ferdinand Fumal had bought the farm, and most others that had belonged to the Comte de Saint-Fiacre. [1956-ECH] At the age of 41 Grégoire Brau had suddenly married Germaine, from Brittany, 20 years his junior, who'd worked the Avenue de Wagram for a short time past. [1958-TEM] Germaine, the maid at Paul Fabre's, told Véronique Fabre he hadn't come back yet. [1961-BRA] Germaine, the cloak-room girl at the Lotus, said that Émile Boulay had made a phone call. [1962-COL] Germaine Baboeuf. see: Baboeuf, Germaine Germaine Couchet. see: Couchet, Germaine Germaine Devon. see: Devon, Germaine Germaine Dormoy. see: Couchet, Germaine Germaine Gastin. see: Gastin, Germaine Germaine Gouin. see: Gouin, Germaine Germaine Laboine. see: Laboine, Germaine Germaine Lapointe. see: Lapointe, Germaine Germaine Moulineau. see: Moulineau, Germaine Germaine Piedboeuf. See: Piedboeuf, Germaine [1932-FLA] Germaine Rivaud. see: Rivaud, Germaine Germain La Pommeraye. see: La Pommeraye, Germain Germain Lombras. see: Lombras, Germain Germain Parendon. see: Parendon, Germain Germain-Pilon, Rue. Janvier called from Au Bon Coin, a place on Rue Germain-Pilon, 200 yards from the Place des Abbesses, where Léonard Planchon used to come for a drink. [1962-CLI] Germains. The concierge at the house opposite Guillaume Serre's garage remembered that it was Tuesday the car had been used, as Mlle. Germains, who only went out on Tuesdays, had just come in. The car had headed towards the Seine. [1951-GRA] German. Through the windows the German and Dutch Customs and railway officials could still be seen pacing up and down the platform.... The policeman spoke no French, M only a few stumbling words of German.... Joseph Van Damme was talking about the German and Russian efforts at using energy from rivers, and the dam they were building in the Ukraine, when he suddenly tried to push M into the river. [1930-31-PHO] A German was speaking English with an American, while a Norwegian was using at least three languages to make himself understood to a Spaniard [in the American bar at the Coupole]. [1930-31-TET] There were some deal bookshelves with paperbacks in French, German, English and probably Danish. [1931-NUI] Conrad Popinga had spoken English and German fluently. [1931-HOL] The stone hand said it was common German paper. He had to go lock the form for the Nièvre edition. [1932-FIA] In the German carriage, Paul Vinchon found an Austrian woman. [1936-ARR] Gérard Gassin had pointed out to Motte that his #33 in his catalogue was a German copy, which the British Museum confirmed. [1937-38-NOT] In Victor Poliensky's pockets were a pakage of Caporal cigarettes and a German-made lighter. [1947-MOR] The letters in the Countess von Farnheim's room were in German, signed Hans, from the Count Hans von Farnheim. [1950-PIC] Julius Van Cram spoke English, French and German.... Hans Ziegler spoke fluent French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and a little Polish. [1954-JEU] Everyone was surprised when, a few weeks before the German retreat they arrested Auguste Point, and took him to Niort, then somewhere in Alsace. [1954-MIN] The bullet that killed Ferdinand Fumal had been from a Luger automatic, such as German officers carried during the war. [1956-ECH] The guide from the coaches was explaining something in English, then in German. [1956-AMU] Olga had been a hostess in a German nightclub in Switzerland. [1961-PAR] During the war Lemke dealt with the Germans, made a lot of money. [1962-CLO] Pardon told M what Vivier said about François Mélan. He came from a poor and humble family, his father a day laborer in a village on the Somme. Five children. Brilliant, secretive, tortured personality... Became Vivier's assistant. At college was nicknamed "The Virgin". He was 14 during the German invasion. German soldiers raped his sister before his eyes. [1964-DEF] In Antwerp, when the diamond cutters retreated before the German advance, they were all directed to Royan and then to the US. Some of them came back to Paris, the Marais and Saint-Antoine. They're almost all Jews. [1965-PAT] Félix Nahour spoke French, English, Spanish, Italian and a little German, besides Arabic. [1966-NAH] Walter Carus had financed 3 or 4 films, German and Italian co-productions. [1966-VOL] Germany. Berthe Swaan said her husband was second officer on the Seeteufel of Bremen, owned by a German company, but fitted out by an American company for the "Rum Avenue run," smuggling whisky to the US. Several big companies were floated with American money, some registered in France, some in Holland or Germany.... At one point Pietr could have married the daughter of a German cabinet minister.... M said of the area of Pskov, some of the intelligentsia are in favor of German culture, others prefer Slav. Some of the peasants look like Lapps or Kalmuks... there's a whole mass of Jews and part-Jews, who eat garlic and slaughter their livestock differently from the rest. [1929-30-LET] It was a poor hotel room, like any all over the world, except that poverty is nowhere so depressing as in northern Germany. [1930-31-PHO] Johann Radek said he'd witnessed an execution in Germany. At the last minute the condemned man cried out for his mother. [1930-31-TET] One day in Sing Sing Léon Le Glérec had met an American from Brest, who'd been a Prohibition agent, in England, France, and Germany. [1931-JAU] M said that Gustave Cassin might be in Germany or Amsterdam. [1932-FLA] Telegrams went out to hospitals in France, Belgium, Germany and Holland to see if any had done the operation on Yves Joris' skull. [1932-POR] M thought about men like Samuel Meyer. You'd find them as barmen in Scandinavia, gangsters in America, head-waiters in Germany, or wholesalers in Northern Africa. [1932-FOU] Lena Leinbach said in Germany a Jew was not entitled to make advances to an Aryan woman. [1936-ARR] Alfred Moss had been prosecuted first in London, where he claimed to be Swiss. A jewel case had disappeared from the room of an American lady who'd called him to interpret a letter she'd received from Germany. [1949-MME] But the Gare du Nord, the coldest, busiest of them all, brought to mind a harsh and bitter struggle for one's daily bread. In the morning, the first night trains, coming from Belgium and Germany, generally contained a number of smugglers. [1950-MEM] Jef Schrameck had made his debut as a circus performer at an early age, appearing mainly in Germany and Alsace-Loraine. [1952-BAN] Philippe de Lancieux had been taken prisoner in the Ardennes, spending the war in Germany, in a camp, then a farm near Munich. [1961-BRA] One of Jef Claes' son-in-laws had died in Germany. The other remarried in America. [1965-PAT] Victor Lamotte was a winegrower, exporting mainly to Germany and Scandinavian countries. [1968-ENF] Mauricette Gallois had two brothers, one in the army in Germany, one in Lyons, where her father came from. [1969-TUE] 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] Gers. Judge Forlacroix offered M an Armagnac, which he said an old friend, who had been the Public Prosecutor in Versailles, sends him from his estate in the Gers region. [1940-JUG] Désiré had originally come from the Gers region, and kept in touch with his old friends, many of whom owned vineyards. [1940-CEC] Gertrud Borms. see: Borms, Gertrud Gertrude Oosting. see: Oosting, Gertrude Giacomi, Angelino. It was 50 years ago and probably more that Angelino Giacomi had come to New York from Naples, and his son, Arturo Giacomi, himself now over 60, had taken over his tailor shop. [1946-NEW] Giacomi, Arturo. M found a little tailor shop with the name Arturo Giacomi. [1946-NEW] Gianini. M wondered who was keeping watch near Gilbert Négrel's house, Lapointe, Gianini? [1956-AMU] Gibon. Jeanne Debul's legal adviser, lived in the 9e Arondissement. [1952-REV] The widow Gibon, an old woman who lived alone at the Rue des Loges, had been murdered two day earlier, the same method and weapon as Robert de Courçon. She had been the midwife when Alain Vernoux was born. [1953-PEU] Gibon, Mariette. Mariette Gibon kept the house on the Rue d'Angoulême where Louis Thouret had stayed. Phone was Bastille 2251. M had it tapped.... Born in Saint-Malo, had been a licensed prostitute for eleven years. Referred three times to Saint-Lazare, in the days before it was closed down. Arrested twice for stealing from clients, released for lack of evidence. Before the war, assistant manager of a massage parlor in Rue des Martyrs, at that time living with Philippe Natali, aka Philippi. Marco, her boyfriend, killed Thouret. [1952-BAN] Gide, André. [Gide, André(-Paul-Guillaume) (b. Nov. 22, 1869, Paris - d. Feb. 19, 1951, Paris), French writer, humanist, and moralist, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. A friend and supporter of Simenon's.] Among the books on the shelf at Beetje Liewens were the latest works of Claudel, André Gide, Valéry. [1931-HOL] Gien. M asked the man in the kitchen of the Guinguette à Deux Sous for his papers. He was Victor Gaillard. Last lived at the Municipal Sanatorium at Gien. [1931-GUI] Decharme said when it came to the Loire, he liked Cosnes or Gien. [1933-ECL] Aline Calas and Omer Calas came from Boissancourt-par-Saint-André, a hamlet between Montargis and Gien. [1955-COR] Giens. Marcellin tied up his boat at Giens, Saint-Tropez or Le Lavandou when he left Porquerolles. [1949-AMI] 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] Giens Point. Where the boat from Hyères departed for Porquerolles. The Cormorant was the boat which did regular service to the island, 8 am and 5pm only. So Inspector Lechat had asked Gabriel Galli to bring him over. [1949-AMI] Gigi. Charlotte told Jean to tell Gigi that if anyone asked about Mimi she shouldn't say anything.... Gigi was thin, angular, brown as a prune. [1939-MAJ] Gilbert Négrel. see: Négrel, Gilbert Gilbert Pigou. see: Pigou, Gilbert Gilles. M did not go to the Hôtel George-V often, but he knew M. Gilles, and shook his hand.... The concierge, M. Albert, told M. Gilles he'd sent his assistant, René up to Colonel David Ward's, and that he was dead in his bath, in suite 347 [1957-VOY] Gilles Cuendet. see: Cuendet, Gilles Gillet. M read through the letters he had glanced at, merely learning more names, Dubard, Cornu, Gillet, Rateau, Boncoeur... [1953-ECO] Gilloux, Martine. Ferdinand Fumal's mistress was Martine Gilloux, who he'd set up in a flat in the Rue de l'Étoile. [1956-ECH] Gilmore Hotel. Alain Lagrange checked into into the Gilmore in London. When M called there, he learned Alain has stolen the skeleton keys. [1952-REV] Gilson, Arthur. nicknamed Peg Leg. an unsolicited witness at the time of Nina Lassave's murder, who saw Marcel Vivien in the bistro on the Boulevard de la Chapelle the day of the murder, where he had two brandies -- normally he drank nothing but coffee. [1971-SEU] Gina Martini. see: Martini, Gina Ginette. Had once been the girlfriend / accomplice of Marcel (Marcellin). The letter Marcel had from M on the letterhead of the Brasserie des Ternes: "Ginette leaves tomorrow for the sanatorium. She sends her love. Sincerely, M." Ginette was a Breton girl, from a village in the Saint-Malo area; started as a maid of all work with a local butcher. When she developed TB, M got her into a sanatorium at Savoie while Marcel was in prison at Fresnes. One of M's friends was a specialist on consumption there. After recovery she went to work for Justine, running a house, the Sirènes at Nice. She came to Porquerolles, ostensibly for Marcel's funeral, and renewed her acquaintance with M., though under less amiable circumstances. Secretly engaged to Émile. Hadn't seen M for 15 years since they met at Ternes. Now between 45 and 50, very fat, very respectable, all in silk, all made up, at the time of her arrival on the Cormorant. (had been very thin, frail.) Stayed at Hôtel des Palmes in Hyères, for Marcel's funeral, at the Arche de Noé in the room next to M in Porquerolles. [1949-AMI] Ginette Chenault. see: Chenault, Ginette Ginette Meurant. see: Meurant, Ginette Gino. An Italian named Gino, on duty on the third floor, knocked on Colonel David Ward's door but got no answer. [1957-VOY] Gino Masoletti. see: Masoletti, Gino Gino Pagliati. see: Pagliati, Gino Gino's. Rose said Martine Gilloux would probably make her little tour and then go to lunch at Gino's or some place on the Avenue des Ternes. Gino's was a little Italian restaurant, famous for its spaghetti and especially its ravioli. [1956-ECH] gin rummy. Line Marcia said when the men played gin rummy she read magazines. [1971-IND] Giovanni. Pozzo ordered for M and Lognon, scaloppine alla fiorentina. The cook was Giovanni. [1951-LOG] For years the Giovannis had been responsible for most of the crime on the Riviera. Marco Giovanni, the youngest, lived near Paris. Pepito Giovanni had built a luxury villa at Sanary and lived there in retirement. [1970-FOL] Giovanni, Marco. The youngest of the Giovanni brothers, lived near Paris. [1970-FOL] Giovanni, Pepito. Le Grand Marcel had left early that morning by car for Sanary, where Pepito Giovanni, the elder of the Giovanni brothers lived. For years the Giovannis had been responsible for most of the crime on the Riviera. Marco Giovanni, the youngest, lived near Paris. Pepito had built a luxury villa at Sanary and lived there in retirement.... Must be over 60, looked like 50. Said he owned a dozen move theaters up and down the Riviera: Two in Marseilles, one in Nice, one in Antibes, three in Cannes, one in Aix-en-Provence. Had a nightclub in Marseilles, and three hotels, one in Menton. Also a restaurant in Paris, on the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, managed by his brother.... Pepito Giovanni owned a magnificent villa, which he'd bought from a rich old American who had decided to go home. The finest property in Sanary. [1970-FOL] Girard. Superintendent Girard, of Le Havre, who was in charge of the case, occupied the only chair. [1931-REN] Liège Sûreté plainclothesman Girard followed René Delfosse. Did a job for Delfosse's father once when something was stolen from the plant. According to Delfosse, he'd been a plainclothesman for two years. A young man, who would have looked quite in place bending over an account book in an office. [1931-GAI] Giraucourt. They brought in the other boy, Giraucourt, who said he hadn't been armed. [1959-ASS] girelle. An attractive little fish with red and blue on its back, not bad fried. Monsieur Émile fished for it from his boat. [1949-AMI] Gisèle Grandmaison. see: Grandmaison, Gisèle Gisèle Le Cloaguen. see: Le Cloaguen, Gisèle Gisèle Marton. see: Marton, Gisele Gitanes. Monique Batille, 18, smoked Gitanes in M's office.... Antoine Batille had bought a pack of Gitanes every day at the café where Mauricette Gallois was a waitress. [1969-TUE] Gitanes. The ashtray of the Citroën was filled with Gitanes. [1972-CHA] Givet. When M got out of the train at Givet, the first person he saw was Anna Peeters. [1932-FLA] Glacière, Rue de la. Loraine Martin's mother had been a charwoman in the Glacière district. [1950-NOE] Gladstone. A young doctor with a dark beard got out of the car, a Gladstone bag in hand. It was Dr Paul, already quite famous. [1948-PRE] Glasgow. Harry Brown had been in Marseilles the day of the murder. One of their ships, the Glasgow, was in with a cargo of wool. [1932-LIB] Glasgow. The steamer from Glasgow had missed the fairway and could be heard whistling down the jetties. [1932-POR] Glénan. There was talk of a steamer in distress out past the Glénan Islands. [1931-JAU] Glen, Le. see: Le Glen Glérec, Léon Le. see: Le Glérec, Léon Glérec, Léon, Le. see: Le Glérec, Léon Globe. The Glove, a paper, if not owned, certainly inspired by the deputy Joseph Mascoulin, had a headline in the style of Zola's famous "J'accuse". An independent paper with not a very large circulation. [1954