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HA HAG HAI HAL HAM HAN HAR HAS HAT HAU HAV Hague.
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]
Hagueneau Jaja asked M if women sent to prison were sent to Alsace, to Hagueneau. She thought for a moment it was Hossegor's. [1932-LIB] hailstorm. Lucas was planning to call Joseph at Quai des Orfèvres to have him shut his window when it started hailing, when M took the phone, put it down and said "Not now, son." The hailstorm was one of the worst on record, damage amounting to millions of francs round Argenteuil. [1951-MEU]
Passers-by on the Pont Saint-Michel began to walk more quickly, like people in early silent films. Hailstones bounced on the sill like ping-pong balls, and after shutting the window he found some on the floor.
[1954-JEU]
Halifax Halle aux Vins
After crossing the bridge they had to go way round before getting back to the Seine, opposite Charenton, because of the one-way streets. On the other side they could see the Halle aux Vins.
[1958-TEM]
Halles, Les Halligan, Muriel.
John Arnold said no doubt David Ward would have married Countess Louise Paverini once his divorce from Muriel Halligan was finalized.
[1957-VOY]
Hamburg M found Torrence dead in the room in the Majestic Hotel. He had been killed by a long needle to the heart, once he'd been rendered unconscious by chloroform. M knew the method, having read about it a few months previously in a German criminological magazine. Precisely the same crime had been committed at Hamburg six months earlier. [1929-30-LET] Johann Radek, 25, born at Brünn, Czechoslovakia, father unknown. Had lived in Berlin, Mainz, Bonn, Turin, Hamburg. [1930-31-TET] Else Anderson said she was born in Hamburg. Her father had been a docker, executed at Düsseldorf. [1931-NUI] Jean Duclos told M he was expected by learned societies in Emden, Hamburg and elsewhere. [1931-HOL] Among Yves Joris' letters: a letter from the Caen branch of the Bank of Normandie: Your account (#14173) has been credited with 300,000 francs, from the Dutch Bank, Hamburg. [1932-POR] The Browns were the biggest wool people in Australia. One in Sydney took care of the shipping. Harry Brown traveled to the places they shipped to, mostly Liverpool, Le Havre, Hamburg or Amsterdam. [1932-LIB] Thomas Hauke, from Hamburg; tall, thin, distinguished-looking, might have been an Army officer. [1936-arr] Julius Van Cram wrote from London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, New York, and sent money to Germaine Laboine. [1954-JEU] hands. M noticed Johann Radek's hands, long hands, astonishingly white and slightly freckled. They seemed to ware up to the subject too, and to take part in the conversation. [1930-31-TET] Handsome Fernand. see: Fernand, Handsome Handsome Maria.
see: Maria, Handsome
Hanovre, Rue de When Maurice Marcia had been 30 he'd become the proprieter of one of the best known brothels in Paris, on the Rue de Hanovre. [1971-IND] Hans. Else Anderson said she was the mistress of a sailor called Hans in Copenhagen. She'd met him in Hamburg. [1931-NUI] Hansen, Elias. Elias Hansen of the Southern Pacific, whose job was to investigate accidents, took the stand. He was certainly of Scandinavian origin. [1949-CHE] Hans Goldberg.
see: Goldberg, Hans
Hans Gross Hans Johansson. see: Johansson, Hans Hans Jonker. see: Jonker, Hans Hans Schmider. see: Schmider, Hans Hans von Farnheim. see: Farnheim, Count Hans von Hans Ziegler.
see: Ziegler, Hans
Harbor Police Hardoin, Lucien. Lucien Hardoin, Jean Guillot's friend, was an industrial draftsman. Taller, thinner, several years younger than his friend. stammered. Lived in the same house as Guillot, the floor above. Bachelor. [1962-CLO] Hardsin. Angèle Sauget said when she'd heard the car start up she'd first thought it had been the Hardsins, who lived next door. She said after the three shots, the car drove away at full speed, in the direction of Rue Norvins. [1963-FAN] Hariel.
The concierge at 63, Rue Vaneau told Janvier of another friend of Blanche Lamotte's, married to a commissioner in Les Halles called Hariel, who lived on Rue de Courcelles. She thought she also came from La Roche-sur-Yon. Three children, youngest 8. She'd known Blanche Lamotte in La Roche-sur-Yon where they went to school together, and had met accidentally in Paris three years ago. Lamotte ate at her home every Sunday. Hariel got Jacques Fleury a job with her husband, but he left after three days without a word.
[1954-MIN]
Harlem Harold Mitchell. see: Mitchell, Harold Harris.
Gisèle Marton's employer, who started the Maison Harris, lingerie shop in the Rue Saint-Honoré. One of the three best in Paris for fine lingerie. His actual name was Maurice Schwob.
[1957-SCR]
Harrison and Shaw Harry Baur Harry Brown. see: Brown, Harry Harry Cole. see: Cole, Harry Harry Pills.
see: Pills, Harry
Harry's Bar Harry-the-Squint. M told Bonneau that Angelino had a 'club' frequented by dubious characters, and had been going with Harry-the-Squint's sister. Harry was an ex-bricklayer, sentenced three times for burglary. [1939-MAJ] Harteau.
One of the students at the Sorbonne, Harteau, had been Antoine Batille's friend. Tall, pale face, light grey eyes. His mother was a concierge on the Place Denfert-Rochereau.
[1969-TUE]
Harvard Hasselt, Van.
see: Van Hasselt
Hastier, Dupont d' hats. Red was the dominant color that year of the brightly colored hats in the streets, brilliant poppy-red. [1955-COR] Hauke, Thomas.
Thomas Hauke, from Hamburg; tall, thin, distinguished-looking, might have been an Army officer. The report said he'd served a two-year jail term in 1924 for dealing in stolen jewellery. Suspected of dealing cocaine and morphine.
[1936-arr]
Haussmann, Boulevard M called Marcel Basso's office to find out the name of his bank. It was the Banque du Nord, Boulevard Haussmann. [1931-GUI] Raymond Couchet lived with his second wife on the Boulevard Haussmann. [1931-OMB] Oscar Laget had had a chemical products business in the Boulevard Haussmann, and Ernest Descharneau, whose own business had failed, went to work for him as a canvasser. [1936-fen] Justin Colleboeuf had been a nightwatchman on Boulevard Haussmann. The became the night concierge at the Majestic. [1939-MAJ] Eva, Michel Goldfinger's sister-in-law, was a typist in an insurance agency in the Boulevard Haussmann. [1946-mal] When a certain specialist has left his hotel on the Boulevard Haussmann for a more modest one in the République district, we can expect a jewel robbery shortly. The Public Roads squad has been warned to keep an eye on the jewelers. [1950-MEM] Léon Zirkt drove a couple to the Étoile. Going through the Place Saint-Augustin, he saw Louise Laboine walking towards the Boulevard Haussmann, towards the Champs-Élysées. When he dropped them at the corner of the Boulevard Haussmann and Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, he saw her still walking. [1954-JEU] The newspaper reported a corpse found in a cupboard at the house of a Doctor J-- [Philippe Jave], Boulevard Haussmann. He was said to be on the Côte d'Azur with his wife and daughter. The other paper said it might well become a second Petiot case, except that this time two doctors instead of one were involved.... M knew the Boulevard Haussmann district well, and when he'd first arrived in Paris it was probably that part that had impressed him most, with its handsome buildings, gateways with old stables at the end of courtyards, lovely shade of chestnut trees, limousines parked all along the pavements... Philippe Jave's house was between a shop selling Oriental carpets and the window of a modiste's with but a single hat displayed. [1956-AMU] Armand de Saint-Hilaire had ordered a suit from a tailor on the Boulevard Haussmann ten days earlier. [1960-VIE] Dr. Pommeroy, Mme. Parendon's doctor, lived on Boulevard Haussmann. [1968-HES] Léon Florentin had lived at 62 Boulevard Haussmann and said he'd just come back from Istanbul. [1968-ENF] Mme. Estelle Japy, widowed or divorced, lived alone on the Boulevard Haussmann. Hadn't seen Oscar Chabut for months. [1969-VIN] The photograph had been taken by a well-know photographer in the Boulevard Haussmann. [1972-CHA] Haussmann Club. Torrence was able to find that Ernest Malik went to the Haussmann Club and the Sporting Club, and that he was a first-class poker player, as a student one of the best in the Latin Quarter. [1945-FAC]
M had tried on his dress clothes, thinking he might try to enter the Hoche Club or the Haussmann Club.
[1948-PRE]
Haute-Loire
Germaine Laboine's father had been a schoolmaster in a village in Haute-Loire.
[1954-JEU]
Haute-Marne
Gassin had been writing a letter to his sister: Mme. Emma Chatereau, Café des Maraîchers, Lazicourt (Haute-Marne).
[1933-ECL]
Haute, Rue Haute-Sauvenière, Rue [Liège] There was a name-tab on the second suit, Roger Morcel, tailor, Rue Haute-Sauvenière, Liège.... M found the Rue Haute-Sauvenière, a steep, very busy street, and asked for Morcel's, the tailor. The tailor said it was imitation English cloth, made in Verviers. [1930-31-PHO]
Génaro lived on the Rue Haute-Sauvenière, where Victor said he left him the night of the murder.
[1931-GAI]
Haute-Savoie A sanatarium had been built at Clairfond, in Haute-Savoie, between Eugines and Megève, at an elevation of 4,500 feet, as a home for abandoned children. [1954-MIN]
Philippe de Lancieux had had tuberculosis and went to Haute-Savoie from 5 to 12.
[1961-BRA]
Hautes Études Commerciales Hauteville, Rue d' Anna Gorskin's father asked her in a letter to check on M. Levassor, 63 Rue de Hauteville, who owed him money. [1929-30-LET] Léontine Faverges' younger sister, Hélène, had worked in a dairy, then in a haberdasher's on Rue d'Hauteville. [1959-ASS] Havana. Joseph Van Damme hurried to pick out a Havana cigar, and to offer one to M. [1930-31-PHO] Johann Radek was smoking a Havana, leaning back in his chair outside a café in Montparnasse. [1930-31-TET] Émile Ducrau offered M a Havana. He preferred his pipe. [1933-ECL] M took out his pipe, as if oblivious of the Havana cigars on the desk. [1937-38-bay] Ernest Malik had had several boxes of cigars brought out, Havanas and Manilas. [1945-FAC] M disdained the Havana cigar, and filled his pipe. [1946-NEW] In the living room / office, there was the smell of a Havana cigar. Richard Gendreau-Balthazar was wearing Russian leather slippers over his bare feet. [1948-PRE] Torrence had found cigar butts from extra-long Havanas in Adrienne Laur's trash basket. [1951-LOG] John Arnold had bought a Havana and gone into the lobby with the three men he'd been playing cards with. [1957-VOY] There was a box of Havana cigars on Pepito Giovanni's table. [1970-FOL]
One room of Maurice Marcia's house was in the English style. The humidor must have contained expensive Havana cigars.
[1971-IND]
Havana
Félix Nahour gambled in casinos at Deauville, Cannes, Évian, Enghien in the winter. For a year or two, before Castro, he was techinical adviser and probably an associate of the casino in Havana.
[1966-NAH]
Havas Havre, Le Havre-Paris. M woke at La Bréauté. The Havre-Paris express was so full he had to stand. [1929-30-LET] HE HEA HEB HEC HEI HEL HEN HER HES HET HEU Head Office. Martin pushed open the glazed door of the waiting room of the Head Office; as sparsely lighted as the rest of the building at Police Headquarters. [1936-bea] Headquarters. Lucas said M could reach him at Headquarters if he needed him. [1934-MAI] And whenever Lucas came to see him, Lucas, who for 15 years had been his favorite sergeant, it was clearly understood that mention of "Headquarters" was forbidden. [1946-NEW] Dr. Frère called the police station in the Rue de Berry, where the Sergeant Marchal wrote down the information, then called it in to Headquarters. [1957-VOY] Hébart.
The sergeant from Lagny kept dropping names as you might say Jesus Christ or Pasteur, and Old Mother Hébart, or Hobart... (see: Hubart)
[1949-MME]
Hébrard Hebrew. The hotel Pietr went into was called Au Roi-de-Sicile, displayed in ceramic letters. Beneath it were inscriptions in Hebrew, Polish, and other incomprehensible languages, probably including Russian. [1929-30-LET] Hector Balthazar. see: Balthazar, Hector Hector Papet. see: Papet, Hector Hector Tabard.
see: Tabard, Hector
Heineken Helen Donahue. see: Donahue, Helen Hélène.
Léontine Faverges' younger sister, Hélène, had worked in a dairy, then in a haberdasher's on Rue d'Hauteville.
[1959-ASS]
Hélène et Rosine's Hélène Godreau. see: Godreau, Hélène Hélène Grandmaison. see: Grandmaison, Hélène Hélène Grossot. see: Grossot, Hélène Hélène Lange. see: Lange, Hélène Hélène Pardon.
see: Pardon, Hélène
Helen, Princess Helsinki One of Coméliau's uncles was the French ambassador in Helsinki. [1959-CON] Henderson.
Mrs. Henderson was the widow of an American diplomat.
[1930-31-TET]
Henner, Rue Forturnately Vieux Calvados had just opened. It was the only place he could take refuge, at the corner of the Rue Henner, not quite opposite the Gendreau-Balthazar's. [1948-PRE] Henri. Henri, the proprieter of the small café, behind the Gare de Guillemins, Chez Jeanne, where René Delfosse had spent the night. [1931-GAI] Justin's uncle Henri had a horn-handled knife like the one he'd seen in the dead man. [1946-cho] Marinette Augier's ex-boyfriend was called M. Henri.... [1963-FAN] Henri de Vergennes. see: Vergennes, Henri de Henriette. The maid at Chez Léon in Fécamp. [1929-30-LET] The girl, Henriette, had been with them. She was crying. [1930-31-PHO] Henriette Maigret. see: Maigret, Henriette Henriette Point.
see: Point, Henriette
Henri Ey Henri Gallet.
see: Gallet, Henri
Henri II In the Baron's dining room the furniture was Henri II. [1951-LOG] Against one side of the lodge was a Henri II-style dresser. [1968-ENF] Henri IV.
M considered ordering sandwiches from the Brasserie Dauphine but decided to go to the little bar opposite the statue of Henri IV, in the middle of Pont-Neuf, where he ordered a ham sandwich. A game of belote was in progress at a table near the bar.
[1940-CEC]
Henri-IV, Boulevard Having crossed the Place de la Bastille, M was passing a little bistro on his way down Boulevard Henri-IV. [1940-CEC]
The waiter from the Café de Birague said the man [Albert Rochain] had said he would try to get to the Canon de la Bastille, a brasserie at the corner of the Boulevard Henri-IV.
[1947-MOR]
Henri-IV, Quai Henri Legendre.
see: Legendre, Henri
Henri-Martin, Avenue Where André Delteil's house was. [1952-REV] Henri Monfils. see: Monfils, Henri Henri-My-Eye. (Henri-mon-Œil) Germaine had Henri, known as Henri-My-Eye, move in with her into Grégoire Brau's. [1958-TEM] Henri Paget. see: Paget, Henri Henri Poujolle. see: Poujolle, Henri Henri Sauer. see: Sauer, Henri Henri Trochu. see: Trochu, Henri Henry. Picture post-cards, all equally banal whether from Saigon or Santiago - All the best from Henry - Cheerio, Eugène. [1932-POR] Fernand asked Henry if he'd have a double. [1933-ECL] A young man was leaning against the wall, smoking a cigarette. It was M. Henry, the new owner of the Floria, in other words, Germain Cageot's new stooge. [earlier: Albert]. [1934-MAI] M. Louis went to the front desk and asked M. Henry, 'Is M. Owen [Ernst Owen] ill?'" [1938-owe] Henry Clay. Pietr appeared, wearing a cinnamon-colored suit, a Henry Clay between his lips. [1929-30-LET] Henry Dormoy.
see: Dormoy, Henry
Hérault There was a letter to Louise Filon from her father, from a hospital at Béziers in Hérault. [1953-TRO]
Adrien Josset was born in Sète, in the Hérault region.
[1959-CON]
Herbemont Herbert Davidson. see: Davidson, Herbert Herbert Muir. see: Muir, Herbert Herbert Philps. see: Philps, Herbert herb tea. Cécile Pardon always had a cup of herb tea at night. She gave hers to Gérard Pardon the night of the murder, and thus he took the "massive dose of bromide" Juliette Boynet had put in the tea, and Cécile was awake. [1940-CEC] Jenny made herbal tea. M asked, "lime-blossom, camomile?" It had been Chinese anise. The poison was in the tea. Gisèle Marton moved her cup to Xavier Marton's place. She said Marton was impotent. She had drunk his cup of tea and also been mildly poisoned. [1957-SCR] Mina Claes said she usually drank Verbena or camomile tea at night before going to sleep. Her husband put sleeping pills in it. [1965-PAT] Hérel, Jeanine. Jeanine Hérel, a chiropodist, lived in the apartment to the right of the concierge at Aline's. Been there 15 years. Older than the concierge. [1965-PAT] Hermance.
M had had an aunt, stouter than Juliette Martin. Whenever she'd come to M's home in his childhood, she'd start, "My poor dear Hermance... What a life! I must tell you what Pierre had done..."
[1931-OMB]
Hermitage, Hôtel heroin. José Latourie, 71 Rue Lepic. In his room on the 4th floor, above the wash basin... M found a tube of Veronal... a screw of paper that had contained heroin. He found eleven packets, each containing one gramme in the rep cover of the armchair, worth at least 1,000 francs at retail prices. [1929-30-LET]
M sniffed Philippe Mortemart's bottles to make sure they weren't heroin.
[1950-PIC]
Herstal The gunsmith's shop reported that the bullets the hit Émile Gallet and Moers came from a precision-made automatic revolver, current model, probably manufactured in the Herstal state factory. [1930-GAL] The revolver bore the mark of the Herstal (Belgium) arms factory. [1930-31-PHO] Among the papers M found in the briefcase hidden in Adèle Bosquet's room were drawings of a new machine gun manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. [1931-GAI] Jef Van Damme owned a gun, small automatic made at the Herstal state armaments factory. [1951-MEU] Véronique Fabre looked for her father's gun, automatic, flat, bluish, Belgian trademark. Herstal was engraved on it. Possibly a Browning 6.35. [1961-BRA] François Ricain had a 6.35 Browning automatic made in Herstal in his room, the gun used to kill his wife, Sophie Ricain. [1966-VOL] Ferdinand Fauchois said Mme. Parendon's gun was a 6.33 made at Herstal. [1968-HES] Hervé Jusseau. see: Jusseau, Hervé Hervé Peyrot. see: Peyrot, Hervé Hesse.
Isabelle de V-- wrote of my cousin H, the Prince of Hesse.
[1960-VIE]
Hêtres, Rue des Rue des Chênes, Rue des Lilas, Rue des Hêtres... The streets in the new development at Juvisy hadn't had time to grow the noble trees they were named after. [1952-BAN] Heurtin, Évariste. There was just one long street in Nandy. Halfway down was the inn, the sign bore the name Évariste Heurtin. [1930-31-TET] Heurtin, Joseph. Somewhere in Santé prison a clock struck two. Joseph Heurtin, Number 11, was sitting on his bed.... M knew the file by heart. Joseph Jean-Marie Heurtin, born at Melun, 27, rides a 3-wheeler delivering flowers for M. Gérardier, florist, Rue de Sèvres. [1930-31-TET] Heurtin, Odette. Joseph Heurtin's family moved to Nandy in Seine-et-Marne, where they had an inn. When Joseph was 6, his sister Odette Heurtin was born. [1930-31-TET] Heurtin, Victorine. Évariste Heurtin heard some whispering in the kitchen. "Is that you, Victorine?" [1930-31-TET] HI Highways Department. Mme. Doncoeur told M the people who'd lived in the apartment before Jean Martin were an old engineer from the Highway and Bridges Department, his wife, and deaf-and-dumb daughter. When they left Paris they moved to Poitou she believed. [1950-noe] M had Lapointe check with the Highways Department [Ponts-et-Chaussées - Bridges and Highways]. for the red Peugeot 403. [1962-CLO] Highways Squad. The taxi following the car contained Grandjean of the Highways Squad and two other inspectors. [1931-NUI] Hilda. Billy Louette had picked her up at the Bongo the night before. Scandinavian - Danish or Swedish - 22, her father a bigshot in the Civil Service. [1970-FOL] Hilda Braun. see: Braun, Hilda Hindu.
At Orly, a group of Hindus, some in turbans, crossed the hall.
[1957-VOY]
Hippocratic Hippolyte Tessier. see: Tessier, Hippolyte Hirschfield, David. The sign read, F Zuber, leathers and hides; Successor, David Hirschfield. [1958-TEM] Hispano.
History of the Consulate and the Empire History of the Religions of the World HO HOB HOC HOG HOL HON HOO HOP HOQ HOR HOS HOT HOU HOW Hobart. The sergeant from Lagny kept dropping names as you might say Jesus Christ or Pasteur, and Old Mother Hébart, or Hobart... (see: Hubart) [1949-MME] Hobnailed Socks.
At the Brasserie Dauphine, some had talked about forming a Hobnailed Socks club. At that time there were still four, among the inspectors of the Police Judiciaire, who were proud of the nickname, for those who'd risen from the ranks.
[1950-MEM]
Hoboken David Ward's third wife, the daughter of an overseer [foreman] in Hoboken, had been selling cigarettes in a Broadway nightclub when Ward had fell in love with her. [1957-VOY] Hobson, Stanley.
Bastiani called from Nice. 16 years earlier Stanley Hobson, now about 45-48, had been staying in Nice at one of the big hotels on the Promenade des Anglais. He was arrested on a tip from Scotland Yard, in connection with jewel thefts in Antibes and Cannes. His girlfriend, 18-year-old Marcelle Maillant was also arrested, but both were released. Maillant's mother lived at Rue Saint-Sauveur on a private income in a comfortable apartment.... Know as "Bald Stan" as at 23-24 he'd lost all his hair due to illness.
[1963-FAN]
Hoche, Avenue Ernest Malik lived in Paris, in the Avenue Hoche, except in summer. Said he'd also bought a country house 3 km from Deauville. [1945-FAC] Françoise Boursicault had been a children's nanny at 14, with a family who spent their summers at Étretat. Came with them to Paris where they lived in the Avenue Hoche. [1951-MEU] 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] Manuel Mori had been arrested at 18, for a burglary in the Avenue Foche. [1971-IND] Hoche Club. By the time Maxime Le Bret arrived at the police station, he would have already been at the Hoche Club for some fencing, a swim in the pool and a massage. [1948-PRE] Hogan, Joey.
Joey Hogan, one of the aliases of Hans Ziegler.
[1954-JEU]
Holland Neuschanz railway station is located in the extreme north of Holland, on the German frontier. [1930-31-PHO] Else Anderson said they'd got married in Holland, under the name Anderson. [1931-NUI] Beetje Liewens said it was quite common in Holland for men to see girls home. [1931-HOL] Telegrams went out to hospitals in France, Belgium, Germany and Holland to see if any had done the operation on Yves Joris' skull.... Yves Lannec said the Hollands [=brandy (schiedam) = eau-de-vie] M was drinking he'd brought back from Holland. [1932-POR] But from this lock, right up to Holland and Belgium, it's Émile Ducrau!" [1933-ECL] Théodore Aerts had been notified of his father's death while passing through Maestricht, in Holland. [1936-pen] The Commodore had been in Holland, so M contacted Amsterdam, and was waiting for information from the Netherlands Police. [1946-mal] Ernestine Jussiaume said Alfred Jussiaume was no safer in Holland or Belgium than in Paris. [1951-GRA] Norris Jonker's father owned a bank in Holland, Jonker, Haag and Company. Jonker's brother, Hans Jonker, would run the bank after his father's death. [1963-FAN] 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]
Nelly Velthuis was 24, born in Friesland in the north of Holland, had gone to Amsterdam when she was 15.
[1966-NAH]
Hollywood M said he thought the Donkey Bar was something straight out of Hollywood.... Michael O'Brien was talking about immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe. Some had become Hollywood magnates, others were in Sing Sing. [1946-NEW] M pressed the trigger and as in a Hollywood film, Charlie Cinaglia's gun fell to the floor, his hand limp. [1951-LOG]
Sooner or later, Police Headquarters would be rung up by some famous person just returned from Hollywood, London, Rome or Cannes, to find their flat had been broken into, the refrigerator empty.
[1958-TEM]
Honfleur Suzanne Verdier had been born at Honfleur in 1906. [1930-PRO] Julie Legrand's brother had done 8 years of hard time. Had been drunk at Honfleur and killed a policeman who'd tried to stop him. [1932-POR] A fish dealer from Honfleur driving along Route 13 in the Forêt de Saint-Germain between Poissy and Le Pecq picked up Lognon, unconscious on the side of the road. Took him to Dr. Grenier's at Saint-Germain. [1951-LOG] Honoré. Valentine Besson's gardener was Honoré. [1949-DAM] Mme. Nathalie Sabin-Levesque rang for her butler, Honoré. [1972-CHA] Honoré Cuendet. see: Cuendet, Honoré Honoré de Boissancourt.
see: Boissancourt, Honoré de
Hoover, J Edgar Hôpital Bretonneau. Rue Etex, running alongside the Montmartre Cemetery, nearly opposite the Hôpital Bretonneau, Monique Juteaux, stabbed three times. [1955-TEN] Hôpital des Enfants Malades. see: Children's Hospital Hoquélus, d'.
M was wondering if Maître d'Hoquélus was any more reliable than the boy, Jean Maura.... d'Hoquélus was John Maura's counsel in France.
[1946-NEW]
Horloge, Quai de l' The mortuary was more sinister even than the old one in the Quai de l'Horloge in Paris. [1930-31-PHO] They had to go around the Palais de Justice to get to the Quai de l'Horloge. M went into the Central Police Station to get Prosper Donge. There'd been a raid at the Bastille [Place de la Bastille] and about 30 women had been brought in. [1939-MAJ] At the Hôtel du Lion d'Or they arrested a man who didn't speak French. Perhaps he'd just arrived, and would spend his first night in a police station at the Quai de l'Horloge. [1947-MOR] Justin Minard didn't leave him until they reached the gate of the Dépôt, in the Quai de l'Horloge. [1948-PRE]
M told Louis to have Pierrot [Pierre Eyraud] take a taxi to the opposite side of the Dépôt on the Quai de l'Horloge.
[1953-TRO]
Hors-Château, Rue M reached the Rue Hors-Château, one of the oldest in Liège, and found a zinc plaque: Central Photo-engraving -- Jef Lombard. [1930-31-PHO] A tailor from the Rue Hors-Château was one of two men who went into the Gai-Moulin together. [1931-GAI] Hortense. Mme M's sister in Alsace. "Hortense is much better and I might possibly get home in two days." [1951-MEU] Hortense Benoît-Biguet. see: Benoît-Biguet, Hortense Hortense Canelle. see: Canelle, Hortense Hortense Malletier. see: Malletier, Hortense Hosay.
M. Hosay, chief clerk at Lhoest's, a stern-looking man of 50, asked Jean Chabot if he'd done the petty cash account, which Jean had spent the money from.
[1931-GAI]
Hospital Saint-Antoine Hossegor Hôtel Aiglon Hôtel Alsina Hôtel Alsinia Hôtel Bacon Hôtel Beaumarchais Hôtel Beauséjour By 8:00 M was on the lookout near the Hôtel Beauséjour, with a suitcase at his feet. (a seedy hotel in the Boulevard des Batignolles). [1936-pei] Just at the corner of the Rue de Birague stood a seedy hotel, the Hôtel Beauséjour. [1937-38-sta] Jacques Pétillon lived in a furnished room on the sixth floor of a boarding house in the Rue Lepic, the Hôtel Beauséjour.... The Hôtel Beauséjour was wedged between a shoeshop and a pork butcher's. At the reception desk was a monstrously fat man in a high-backed chair. Ernest, the porter, said he'd given the key to a dark girl he hadn't known... [1942-FEL] Olga Poissonneau, Maurice Tremblet's mistress, lived at the Hôtel Beauséjour, Rue Lepic, Paris 18e. [1946-pau] Nine Rochain said that when she was just 20 she'd spent her holidays with her mother at Dieppe. M had spent a fortnight there with Mme M, at the Hôtel Beauséjour. [1947-MOR] M took Lapointe and went by taxi to the corner of Place Blanche and Rue Lepic. M recognized on his left the little table d'hôte where the taxi driver had had lunch, opposite the Hôtel Beauséjour, the narrow doorway between a delicatessen and a grocery. [1949-MME] Roger Prou had been living alone at the end of Rue Lepic in the Hôtel Beauséjour, before he moved into the Léonard Planchon's. [1962-CLI]
Jean-Luc Bodard, the red-head, lived in a small hotel, the Hôtel Beauséjour, on the Boulevard des Batignolles, and took his meals in the restaurant. 4th floor, #68, at the end of the hall. no elevator.
[1968-ENF]
Hôtel Bel Air Hôtel Bellevue Jean Goyard, alias Jean Servières, was arrested Monday night at the Hôtel Bellevue, Rue Lepic. [1931-JAU] M checked the hotels of Cannes. Hôtel Bellevue, Hôtel du Port, Hôtel Bristol, Hôtel d'Auvergne... [1932-LIB]
[Les Sables-d'Olonne] Laurence Decoin's last address was the Hôtel Bellevue. M set off to the Hôtel Bellevue, the most luxurious on the Remblai.
[1947-VAC]
Hôtel Bessière Hôtel Bristol Hôtel Bussière Hôtel d'Angleterre
M thought of calling a hotel starting with "A" to see if the man had gone through a list to find Francine Lange's hotel. The first one, Hôtel d'Angleterre proved him right.
[1967-VIC]
Hôtel d'Auvergne Hôtel de Berry Hôtel de Bordeaux Hôtel de Bretagne Hôtel de Concarneau
Dupeu reported that Ginette Meurant had just arrived at the Hôtel de Concarneau. He said it was decent enough, with hot and cold running water, a bathroom on each floor. She was in Room 32, apparently fairly long-term.
[1959-ASS]
Hôtel de France
In front of the Fontenay-le-Comte station, M looked down the Rue de la République, where he took a taxi to the Hôtel de France. The door was flanked by two palm trees in green barrels.
[1953-PEU]
Hôtel de la Bérézina Hôtel de la Cloche Hôtel de la Gare
Francine Lange had booked into the Hôtel de la Gare. Room 406, a double with her lover.
[1967-VIC]
Hôtel de la Loire Hôtel de la Marne Hôtel de la Meuse Hôtel de l'Amiral
Down in Brittany, the little troupe had invaded the Hôtel de l'Amiral, in the Quai Carnot, which M knew through having in the past once conducted a case there which had caused quite a stir.
[1956-AMU]
Hôtel de la Plage
[Étretat] Valentine Besson had been a chambermaid in the Hôtel de la Plage. ... M told her that Théo Besson was staying at the Hôtel de la Plage. (Earlier Castaing has said he had a room in the Roches Blanches hotel.)
[1949-DAM]
Hôtel de la Poste Hôtel de la Reine et de Poitiers Hôtel de la Seine Hôtel de la Tournelle Hôtel de l'Étoile Hôtel de l'Europe Hôtel de l'Univers Hôtel de Lutèce Hôtel de Paris Hôtel des Ambassadeurs Hôtel des Anglais Hôtel des Arcades Hotel de Savoie Hôtel des Bergues
Hôtel des Cinq Continents Hôtel des Deux Cerfs Hôtel des Grands Augustins Hôtel des Îles Hôtel des Îles et du Bon Pasteur Hôtel des Palmes Hôtel des Roches-Noires Hôtel des Trois Mules Hôtel des Voyageurs Hôtel de Vendée Hôtel de Ville
Joseph Antoine, Léontine Antoine's second husband, was Chief Buyer at Hôtel de Ville department store, in charge of agricultural implements and tools.
[1970-FOL]
Hôtel de Ville M's caller [Albert Rochain] said he'd gone down into the métro, and came out opposite the big store by the Hôtel de Ville.... M said that two detectives had been exploring all the districts in Paris, starting with the Hôtel de Ville and the Bastille districts, as the man [Albert Rochain] had kept to that neighborhood. [1947-MOR] At the Quai des Orfèvres there are maps on which little islands are marked, the Jews of the Rue des Rosiers, the Italians of the Hôtel de Ville district, the Russians of Les Ternes and Denfert-Rochereau... [1950-MEM]
Jef Claes and Mina Claes moved to bigger rooms, near the Hôtel de Ville.
[1965-PAT]
Hôtel-Dieu [hospital. 1, Place du Parvis-Notre-Dame, 4e.Hospital, 1, Place du Parvis-Notre-Dame, 4e.] One of the hotel guests was a nurse at Hôtel-Dieu. Could help Moers, as the doctor was away. [1930-GAL] Joseph Mascouvin was was taken to Hôtel-Dieu, where he was in the hands of Chesnard, the chief surgeon. [1941-SIG] Big Nicolas had been taken to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital. [1951-LOG] Lucette Calas worked for Professor Lavaud at Hôtel-Dieu hospital. [1955-COR]
The man fished out of the Seine was still alive half an hour ago, when they'd telephoned Hôtel-Dieu.
[1962-CLO]
Hôtel d'Orsay Hôtel Drouot Hôtel du Berry
Jules Piquemal lived at the Hôtel du Berry, Rue Jacob. Modest hotel with about 30 rooms, owner herself did most of the cleaning, husband did the accounts.
[1954-MIN]
Hôtel du Cap Hôtel du Centre
Vanel said Bob d'Anseval was at the Hôtel du Centre, room #32, Rue de Brey, just behind the Étoile. He'd seen him with his girlfriend Lucile, who had a scar on her left cheek, at a bistro on the corner of the Rue de Brey.
[1948-PRE]
Hôtel du Chemin de Fer
M and Janvier went into the Hôtel du Chemin de Fer, next to the Restaurant du Triage, and found the registration card for Ernest Combarieu. Had stayed at the hotel 6 weeks.
[1946-obs]
Hôtel du Chien Jaune Hôtel du Commerce Hôtel du Cygne Hôtel du Lion Hôtel du Lion d'Or Hôtel du Louvre Jehan d'Oulmont's uncle, Count Adalbert d'Oulmont, stayed at the Hôtel du Louvre in Paris a few days every month. He always stayed in the same room, no. 318, and went riding in the Bois de Boulogne every morning. [1936-pei] Eugène Cornille said he'd taken Lise Gendreau-Balthazar to a little hotel in the square oppoiste the Tuileries, the Hôtel du Louvre. [1948-PRE]
Évelina Nahour said she'd stay at the Hôtel du Louvre, on the corner of the Rue de Viloli, near the Place Vendôme.
[1966-NAH]
Hôtel du Massif Central Hôtel du Morvan Hôtel du Port
Justin Hulot took his usual afternoon walk, and stopped at the Hôtel du Port, where he learned that no stranger had arrived in town.
[1940-JUG]
Hôtel du Remblai Hôtel du Square Hôtel du Var Hôtel Excelsior Hôtel George-V M was sound asleep beside Mme M in their apartment on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, when the events were taking place at the Hôtel George-V. [1957-VOY] Stuart Wilton's son lived in the residential part of the Hôtel George-V; rented a flat there by the year. [1961-PAR]
Nathalie Sabin-Levesque sometimes went to the bar at the Hôtel George-V.
[1972-CHA]
Hôtel Hermitage Hôtel Jonard Hôtel Lambert Hôtel Lepic Hôtel Metropole Hôtel Modern Hotel Moderne Hôtel Moderne
M suggested that Lapointe see if there were rooms in the Hôtel Moderne, just across from the Brasserie de la République, where he and Arlette could stay while they searched for Marco.
[1952-BAN]
Hôtel Myosotis Hôtel Negresco Hôtel Palace Hôtel Pigalle Hôtel Rambuteau Hotel Raphael Hôtel Raspail
Maurice Nahour had arrived and was at the Hôtel Raspail.
[1966-NAH]
Hôtel Rembrandt Hôtel Rue Lepic Hôtel Saint-Georges Hôtel Scribe John Arnold, in the Hôtel Scribe on the Grands Boulevards, called the Hôtel George-V for Colonel David Ward. [1957-VOY] In Paris Victor Lamotte had a suite at the Hôtel Scribe, almost next door to his office in the Rue Auber. [1968-ENF] Hotel Squad.
Nicolas had someone from Hotel Squad check and learned the man's name was Georges Macagne. He had a record for car theft and assault.
[1961-PAR]
Hotels Section The Chief said that Young Lesueur would replace him in the Hotels Squad. [1950-MEM] M asked Hotels Section to check if Alain Lagrange had slept in a hotel in Paris. [1952-REV] M sent for Torrence, had him go down to Hotels Section with the photo, especially in the 9th and 18th, and then to make a list of hostels and start to check them out. [1954-JEU] Detectives from the Hotels section had showed pictures of Alfred Meurant and Ginette Meurant to a large number of Paris rooming houses. [1959-ASS]
Before going to his office at the Quai des Orfèvres, M stopped at the Hotels squad to ask them to check if Léonard Planchon had stayed in a hotel.
[1962-CLI]
Hotel Van Hasselt Hôtel Wagram Hôtel Washington Houard Houlgate House. When Mme M said they'd called three times, M said "From the House [la Maison]?", what he and his colleagues sometimes called Police Headquarters [Police Judiciaire]. [1939-MAJ] housekeeper.
see Housekeepers (Les femmes de ménage)
by Murielle Wenger
House of Balthazar Houtte, Anna van. Jef van Houtte's wife Anna was called Anneke. She'd been asleep at 10:00, along with the baby. [1962-CLO] Houtte, Anneke van. Jef van Houtte's wife Anna van Houtte, was called Anneke. She'd been asleep at 10:00, along with the baby. [1962-CLO] Houtte, Hubert van. Jef van Houtte's brother Hubert, 22, went out dancing after supper. [1962-CLO] Houtte, Jef van. M asked Jef van Houtte, the tall, blond, Flemish bargeman, if his name was Josef van Houtte. He answered, yes, Jef van Houte. [1962-CLO] Houtte, Josef van. M asked Jef van Houtte, the tall, blond, Flemish bargeman, if his name was Josef van Houtte. He answered, yes, Jef van Houte. [1962-CLO] Houtte, Yolande van. Jef van Houtte's baby's name, for his sister, her godmother, was Yolande. [1962-CLO] Howard, Major. 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] HU Hubart. Mme. Hubart, the widow who'd heard Krynker's car go into the Marne at Lagny. [1949-MME] Hubert. Hubert wanted to talk to Émile Ducrau about the stones they were to unload, but he told him to shut up. [1933-ECL] Angèle said that the butcher, Hubert, wanted to leave his wife for her. [1938-ceu] A child in the Tuileries Gardens, playing with a toy boat in the pond. [1970-FOL] Hubert Balthazar. see: Balthazar, Hubert Hubert de V--. see: V--, Hubert de Hubert de Vries. see: de Vries, Hubert Hubert Thévenard. see: Thévenard, Hubert Hubert van Houtte. see: Houtte, Hubert van Hubert Vernoux.
see: Vernoux, Hubert
Hudson River Huet.
Maître Huet was the lawyer for the men arrested in the villa robbery.... Huet was a clever, wily man, used to defending the big gangsters. Very cultivated, a lover of music and the theater.
[1969-TUE]
Hugo Hugon, Émile. 85, spry, walked to M's office from Montmartre, when he thought he recognized Marcel Vivien's photo in the newpapers. Lived in Rue Lepic, in the apartment he was born in. Known in his district as "The Colonel," had been a cadet at the Military Academy when the 1914 war broke out. Served at Verdun and Chemin des Dames, where he got a shrapnel wound in his leg. [1971-SEU] Huguet, Jacques. Jacques Huguet was a photographer, 30, twice divorced, lived in the same block as François Ricain, center building on the 4th floor. Had seen him coming back home.. Lived with his wife, Jocelyne Huguet, pregnant. [1966-VOL] Huguet, Jocelyne. Jacques Huguet's current wife was Jocelyne, who was pregnant. [1966-VOL] Hulot, Adine. Adine Hulot, 64, told M the corpse in Judge Forlacroix's bedroom was still there. Everyone called her Didine, and soon M would too. [1940-JUG] Hulot, Didine. see: Hulot, Adine. Hulot, Justin. Adine Hulot said her husband, Justin Hulot, had been customs officer at Concarneau when he was there on a case. He had a face that was hard to forget. [1940-JUG] Hundred Bibliophiles. The client who'd come to pick up a book at Frans Steuvels' the day Fernande Steuvals was away was a well-known man, a member of the Hundred Bibliophiles. [1949-MME] Hundred Keys Club. Oscar Coutant told M that Nicole Prieur was in what they called the Étoile set. They went to a club in the basement of a restaurant on the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, or near there, called the Hundred Keys.... M looked through the members list of the Hundred Keys Club. Abouchère, the son of Senator Abouchère, Viscomte d'Arceau, father a member of the Jockey Club, Barillard, of the Barillard Oil Company, (next month Mlle. Barillard was going to marry Eric Cornal, of Cornal Biscuits). [1964-DEF] Hungarian. Walter Lampson introduced his friend, Willy Marco. M, noting his obvious Jewish features, asked if he was Spanish. "Greek on my father's side, Hungarian on my mother's." was the answer. [1930-PRO] M could see Conrad Popinga switching his radio from Parisian jazz to Hungarian Gypsy music or Viennese musical comedies, or even picking up a message in Morse. [1931-HOL] M thought Boris Krofta was Hungarian or Czech.... Mme M said in the shops they spoke many languages, Italian, Hungarian, Polish... Rita had seemed to understand what they were saying. [1937-38-amo] Stephan Strevzki, living in France 3 years, married to a Hungarian named Dora Strevzki. [1939-hom] Juliette #Boynet was also distrustful of the Hungarians next door. [1940-CEC] 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. One, a big, fair, heavy man around 30, had a Hungarian accent (Krynker).... Krynker, a Hungarian from a good but poor family, gambled in Monte Carlo, lost, came to Paris and lived at the Commodore, then a small hotel in the Rue Caumartin. [1949-MME]
Stuart Wilton's son married Lida Wilton, a Hungarian model. They divorced when he discovered she was his father's mistress.
[1961-PAR]
Hungary Huy The bicycle factory owned by M. Delfosse was at Huy. [1931-GAI] Machère had received notice that Germaine Piedboeuf's body had been found in the Seine at Huy, about 70 or 75 miles away. [1932-FLA] Francis Decoin had been born at Huy. [1947-VAC] HY Hyères . [commune, SE France, Var dept. pop. 1968: 34,865. near the Mediterranean, 32 mi. S of Draguignan; winter resort, market gardens, founded 10th C. (Hyères Islands, island group in the Medeterranean Sea, off the SE coast of France, SE of Toulon. Includes Port Cros, Île de Levant, and the fortified island of Porquerolles. Occupied by allies, Aug. 14-15, 1944.)]Willy Marco said they were on their way to the Mediterranean, to the island of Porquerolles, opposite Hyères, where they spent the greater part of the year. [1930-PRO] M arrived at Hyères with Inspector Pyke, where they were greeted by Inspector Lechat. The land was flat, deserted, lined with tamarisks, a palm tree here and there, salt marshes on the right. A typical Provençal inn, and several fisherman's cottages painted pink and pale blue. A scene out of Africa. [1949-AMI]
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