MAIGEN - The Maigret Encyclopedia
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Lab . "I'll be upstairs in the lab." M climbed slowly to the top floor of the Palais de Justice, where he found Moers poring over his testtubes. [1955-COR]
La Babette. La Popine told M she'd said to La Babette that she'd recognized him. [1947-VAC]
Labat, Maurice. Maurice Labat started to enter the Filet de Sole, but left as soon as he noticed M. For 10 years he'd been working in a department on the Rue des Saussaies, but had apparently been forced to resign. Had a wife, children, and a mistress in an apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu., who was 20 years younger than he was. Barely 36, Corsican, small and slender, wore high-heeled shoes and had a brown mustache like two commas. [1954-MIN]
La Baule . René Josselin and his wife had just come back from La Baule last week. They had a villa there they'd bought when Véronique Fabre was still a child. [1961-BRA]
 Jacqueline Rousselet had met her husband at La Baule, where they'd gone every year. [1962-CLO]
The proprieter of the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs also owned a hotel in La Baule. [1967-VIC]
Apparently Léontine Antoine and Joseph Antoine had been great travelers. They'd visited Quimper, La Baule, Arcachon, and Biarritz. They'd toured the Massif Central, and spent summers on the Riviera. [1970-FOL]
M booked a flight there to check out M. Louis Mahossier, who had a villa there, the 'Umbrella Pines', telephone La Baule 1-2-4. [1971-SEU]
La Belle Emma. see: Pretty Emma
La Belle Étoile . M told Charlotte Mrs. Mimi Clark had been Émilienne, Mimi, a hostess in Cannes, in a club called La Belle Étoile, just behind the Croisette [Boulevard de la Croisette]. [1939-MAJ]
La Belle Hélène . Some of the clubs Gérard Sabin-Levesque went to were on the match boxes: Le Chat Botté, La Belle Hélène, Cric-Crac. [1972-CHA]
Laberge. M asked for M. Laberge's house in Yport, the chief engineer, not the farmer. [1931-REN]
La Bicoque. The old porter had come into his office at the Quai des Orfèvres with the black edged visiting card: Mme. Veuve Ferdinand Besson [Valentine Besson], La Bicoque, Étretat. [1949-DAM]
La Boétie, Rue . M phoned a big furriers in the Rue La Boétie, as wild-cat hairs had been found on Honoré Cuendet's jacket.... Nicolas followed one of the men from the Café des Amis, Georges Macagne, to a garage in the Rue La Boétie. He left his car and walked to a house in the Rue de Ponthieu, parallel with the Champs-Élysées. [1961-PAR]
Georges Dennery's Citroën had been stolen on Feb 18. He was a municipal engineer who lived in the Rue La Boétie. [1972-CHA]
Laboine, Germaine. Féret called and said he'd located Louise Laboine's mother, Germaine Laboine, in Monte Carlo, at the Casino. She called herself Liliane Laboine, and the croupiers called her Lili. About 60, heavy make-up, loads of jewelery. She had a furnished room in the Rue Greuze, near the Boulevard Victor-Hugo, in Nice. She'd toured for years in the Near East and Asia Minor as an artiste under the name Lili France.... At 18 she went to Paris where she had walk-on parts at the Châtelet, and did a little dancing in Around the World in Eighty Days and Michael Strogoff. Then she went to the Folies-Bergère, then a tour of South America. When she was around 30, before the war, she made her round of Near East clubs, Bucharest, Sofia, Alexandria. Several years in Cairo, even Abyssinia. At Instanbul she met a man called Julius Van Cram, a Dutchman apparently, staying at the Pera Palace. He was over 50 then, probably 70s now if he were alive. He spoke English, French and German, went to parties at Embassies. He was Louise Laboine's father. They were married at Istanbul, and they took an Italian boat to Marseilles, then, after a few weeks, Nice, where Louise was born. They lived in a flat off the Promenade des Anglais. Two months later Van Cram went out for cigarettes and never came back. He wrote from London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, New York, and sent money. Once the Turkish consulate checked her "marriage certificate" and said it wasn't real. [1954-JEU]
Laboine, Liliane. Féret called and said he'd located Louise Laboine's mother, Germaine Laboine, in Monte Carlo, at the Casino. She called herself Liliane, and the croupiers called her Lili. About 60, heavy make-up, loads of jewelery. [1954-JEU]
Laboine, Louise. Mlle. Irène thought the girl [Louise Laboine]'s name was Louise, possibly something similar to La Montagne or La Bruyère.... Mme. Crêmieux said the girl's name was Louise Laboine. [1954-JEU]
La Bonne Chope . M had located the bar near Place de la République where Adrien Josset had stopped, La Bonne Chope, on Boulevard du Temple. [1959-CON]
Labor Exchange. One of the "transient" members of Stan the Killer's gang they called the Chemist, because he had twice visited the Labor Exchange looking for a job in a chemical products firm. [1937-38-STA]
La Bourboule . The past season Joseph Daumale was in La Bourboule, where he'd built a villa. Married to Anne-Marie Penette, of Les Sables-d'Olonne. three children. [1946-NEW]
Arlette had been sent to La Bourboule for her tonsilitis. [1950-PIC]
La Bréauté . La Bréauté station, where M left the main-line train from Paris to Le Havre, gave him a foretaste of Fécamp.... M woke at La Bréauté. The Havre-Paris express was so full he had to stand. [1929-30-LET]
Labri, Eugène. Eugène Labri was not an old offender. He was a Frenchman, born in Cairo or Port Said, about 45, fat, with dark brilliant eyes, obsequious. He was the owner of the 'Special Bookshop'. [1936-ERR]
La Bruyère. Mlle. Irène thought the girl[Louise Laboine]'s name was Louise, possibly something similar to La Montagne or La Bruyère. [1954-JEU]
La Bruyère, Rue . Jean-Charles Gaillard lived in the Rue La Bruyère, in a little private house about the middle of the street. Barely 500 yards from the Lotus. To get there you simply had to go down the Rue Pigalle, cross the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and a little further down, turn to the left. [1962-COL]
Mme. Blanc said Joséphine Papet's car was in a garage in the Rue La Bruyère. [1968-ENF]
La Bruyère, Square . Manuel Mori had a luxury apartment in the Square La Bruyère. [1971-IND]
La Caille. One of the pictures of criminals M showed to Emma. [1941-SIG]
La Californie . The Villa Marie-Thérèse was just outside of Cannes, halfway up La Californie. [1956-AMU]
Lacasse . M finally found the Feb. 15 article. Police Constable Lacasse of No. 6 Division, was going towards the Pont des Arches, passing the main door of the Church of Saint-Pholien, when he observed a body hanging from the door-knocker. It was Émile Klein, 20-year-old house painter, born in Angleur, living in the Rue du Pot-au-Noir. He'd apparently hanged himself in the middle of the night with a sash-cord. [1930-31-PHO]
La Chapelle . Joseph Audiat was not making for the Rue Lepic, where he lived, nor the center of the city. He kept along the boulevard [Boulevard Rochechouart], where the métro ran overhead, and at the Barbès crossroads he went towards La Chapelle. [1934-MAI]
Ginette Meurant had been seen frequently at dance halls around La Chapelle and Rue de Lappe, most recently one on Rue des Gravilliers. [1959-ASS]
Inspector Louis said that he might get a phone call telling him the Coglia gang was planning an armed robbery in La Chapelle. Though Coglia himself was in prison. [1971-IND]
La Chapelle, Boulevard de . The Director asked Joseph Audiat what he was doing in the middle of the Boulevard de La Chapelle at 3:00 am. [1934-MAI]
La Charente. Albert Raymond, reporter on La Charente, came up to M. No more than 22, thin, long-haired, tightly-belted raincoat, outsized pipe. [1953-ECO]
Lachat. Someone had called Paul Fabre to 28 Rue Julie, named Lesage or Lechat or Lachat. [1961-BRA]
La Châtaigneraie . Blanche Dubut was born at La Châtaigneraie (Vendée). [1951-MEU]
Lachaume. M picked up the phone. Lachaume, Quai de la Gare, Ivry... [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Armand. Armand Lachaume had phoned the Ivry Police Station.... Armand Lachaume had been listening outside Angelot's door, shot himself with the 6.35 automatic. [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Félix. Catherine said if M continued smoking M. Félix would have another asthma attack. [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Jean-Paul. Jean-Paul Lachaume, 12, was Léonard Lachaume's son. [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Léonard. Léonard Lachaume, the eldest son, had been shot. [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Marcelle. Marcelle Lachaume, Léonard Lachaume's wife had died 8 years earlier. Two years later Armand Lachaume married Paulette Zuber. [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Paulette. Armand Lachaume told his wife, Paulette, not to answer. [1958-TEM]
Lachaume's Biscuits . Lachaume's Biscuits brought M back to his country childhood, where every village grocery had cellophane-wrapped packets labelled 'Biscuiterie Lachaume'. He remembered the calendars with the little boy with the rosy cheeks... [1958-TEM]
Lachaume, Véronique. Catherine said there was a daughter, Véronique Lachaume, but she no longer lived there. [1958-TEM]
La Chaussée . The Éco III should have been at La Chaussée, but had broken a propeller at lock 12, and so was at Tours-sur-Marne, 10 miles away. [1930-PRO]
La Chope Alsacienne . Monique Thouret had last met her father for lunch at La Chope Alacienne, in the Boulevard Sébastopol, several months earlier, before the summer holidays. [1952-BAN]
La Citanguette . At the other end of the reach from Le Coudray was the lock at La Citanguette, 8 km higher upstream. The villages of Morsang and Seine-Port were on the opposite bank, a longish way off. But there was a bistro, and boats did their utmost to spend the night there. [1936-PEN]
M asked if Coudray weren't at the edge of the Seine, a little beyond Corbeil. He knew the area vaguely, for a few years ago he was involved with a murder at the lock at La Citanguette. [1942-MEN]
Lacore, Marie. Marie Lacore, the blacksmith's wife, 32-33 with a baby in her arms, came into the Potru sisters' shop. [1936-LAR]
La Coupole . M, thirsty after the movie on the Boulevard Montparnasse, went into La Coupole for a beer and a ham sandwich. [1940-CEC]
M went to La Coupole as it was too late for anywhere else except the little bistros around Les Halles. The main dining room was closed but the bar was still open. He ordered a couple of magnificent ham sandwiches and drank three half-pints quickly. It was 4 am. He told the taxi he'd kept to go to the Quai des Orfèvres, then changed his mind and made it the Police Station in the Quai de l'Horloge. [1947-MOR]
Luigi told M he'd meet him at La Coupole, Boulevard Montparnasse, in the bar. [1951-LOG]
Lacour, Tony. At one o'clock, when the Penguin Bar closed, they went to the musician Tony Lacour's house. [1949-CHE]
La Cravache . Rosalie Bourdon, "La belle Rosalie" moved to the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and opened a night-club called La Cravache. [1961-PAR]
Lacroix, Jérôme. M called Police Judiciaire and asked for his nephew, Jérôme Lacroix, and told him to meet him at the Zanzi-Bar on the Rue Caulaincourt.... Jérôme Lacroix, whom M had brought into the Police Judiciaire, was a big bony fellow with thick hair and a stubborn expression. He had a long nose, small eyes, huge hands and feet. M told him to kiss his wife and son for him. [1937-38-BER]
Ladies of Sion. Behind the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor were the Servants of Mary [Servantes de Marie], and on Rue Vavin, the Ladies of Sion [Dames de Sion], and in the other part, on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, the Ladies of St Augustine [Dames Augustines]. [1961-BRA]
Ladies of St Augustine. Behind the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor were the Servants of Mary [Servantes de Marie], and on Rue Vavin, the Ladies of Sion [Dames de Sion], and in the other part, on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, the Ladies of St Augustine [Dames Augustines]. [1961-BRA]
Lady of the Dunes. There were inscriptions cut in the stone and on shells: Please make Denise pass her exam, Let Joey [Jojo] learn to read soon, Bob [Robert] and Jeanne, may they have a good catch in Newfoundland, and finally, Lady of the Dunes [Notre-Dame-des-Dunes], may Louis [Louis Legrand] succeed. [1932-POR]
Laënnec . M asked for Dr. Armand Barion, a specialist in lung diseases and a former intern at Laënnec. [1936-LUN]
On the second floor of the Hôtel du Lion d'Or they found the woman Maria, in labor. They had her taken to Laënnec and sent for a Czech interpreter [Franz Lehel]. [1947-MOR]
Émile Parendon's mother was a young nurse at Laënnec, Mme. Parendon told M, a ward maid, 16 when Professor Parendon got her pregnant. [1968-HES]
La Faute . The village on the other side of the bridge was La Faute, just a cluster of little bungalows for renting to summer visitors. [1940-JUG]
La Fayette, Rue . Rue La Fayette. The whitish pillars of the Trinité Church, surrounded by scaffolding. Rue de Clichy. Motimer-Levingston's limousine stopped in the Rue Fontaine, outside Pickwick's Bar. [1929-30-LET]
Ferdinand Voivin would hang about for hours at the Rue La Fayette, where the gem dealers gathered. [1936-BEA]
The man [Stephan Strevzki] followed the same route, from Trinité and Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], Place Clichy and Barbès [Boulevard Barbès] by way of the Rue Caulaincourt, then from Barbès to the Gare du Nord and the Rue La Fayette. [1939-HOM]
The two policemen who brought Gérard Pardon 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 knew the center of the diamond trade, a big café in the Rue Lafayette, where important brokers met at a special table. [1946-MAL]
Mme M said she'd checked the whole Rue Lafayette, looking for hat shops. Then Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Rue Blanche and Rue de Clichy. Came back down towards the Opéra [Place de l'Opéra]. She'd already done the Ternes area and the Champs-Élysées. [1949-MME]
About two years earlier Lulu [Louise Filon] had gotten sick; they took her to a hospital on the Left Bank for an operation, and she'd been cured. Soon after she had a flat on the Rue La Fayette. [1953-TRO]
For several months these three had been working in the neighborhood of the Rue La Fayette, and the newspapers had nicknamed them "the wallborers".... The girl [Louise Laboine]'s dress came from a department store on the Rue La Fayette. [1954-JEU]
Where Omer Calas sometimes went to play billiards an hour or two every afternoon at a brasserie. [1955-COR]
M received a call from Emergency Calls in the Boulevard du Palais. A hold-up in the Rue La Fayette, between the Rue Taitbout and the Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin. Shots fired, casualties... [1961-PAR]
M told Magistrate Ancelin he'd go to the Rue La Fayette, where they had the diamond market every morning, in a brasserie and in the street. [1965-PAT]
La Ferté-Alais . A military map showed some limestone roads between La Ferté-Alais and Arpajon. [1931-GUI]
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre . The Southern Cross had been moored at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre at the time of the murder. [1930-PRO]
Lafitte, Rue . Robert Bureau worked in an insurance company in the Rue Lafitte. [1969-TUE]
La Florentine. On the back of the photograph the words "La Florentine", obviously the name of Gérard Sabin-Levesque's villa. [1972-CHA]
Lagache . 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]
Laget. Mme. Laget, a youngish woman in a fur coat, was hiding behind the curtain. [1936-FEN]
Laget, Oscar. On the second floor, the plate bore the words Le Commerce Français; Sergeant Lucas opened the door and asked if Oscar Laget was there. [1936-FEN]
Lagny . When Joseph Leroy saw Nicolas getting out of the cab, he realized he must have gone as far as Lagny and taken a cab, then picked up the trail in Chelles. [1945-PIP]
M had been there once. A little town on the edge of the Marne, with a lot of men fishing, and shiny canoes. He couldn't remember the case he had been on but it was in the summer, and he had drunk a light white wine. About a month ago a car had gone into the Marne... [1949-MME]
Jean-Claude Ternel had gone with Marinette Augier to Félix et Félicie at Pomponne, on the Marne, not far from Lagny, which she especially liked. [1963-FAN]
Manuel Palmari told M there was an inn near Lagny, with a half-deaf old man and his daughter, and Mariani liked the daughter. [1965-PAT]
Lagny, Clairfontaine de. see: Clairfontaine de Lagny
Lagodinec . Police doctor, checked Marcel Vivien's corpse at the crime scene. Young, brisk, cheerful. [1971-SEU]
Lagrange. Julien Chabot explained to M that the Courçons were really called Courçon-Lagrange, but originally were just the Lagranges. They added Courçon to their name when they bought the Château de Courçon, three or four generations ago. [1953-PEU]
Lagrange, Alain. Alain François Marie Lagrange. François Lagrange's younger son. fair, blond, young, good-looking boy, had visited M's house and taken M's revolver. He had been working at an advertising office on Rue Réaumur, but lost the job for poor attendance. Had applied for a passport 11 months earlier, planning to go to Austria, but had gotten ill and hadn't gone. Took the 12:45 flight from Le Bourget to London, following Jeanne Debul, planning to kill her for ruining his father's life. Checked into the Gilmore Hotel, opposite Victoria Station, without luggage, at 4:00 am. Visited various hotels: Astoria, Continental, Claridge's, asking for Jeanne Debul. Didn't speak English, apparently going down an alphabetical list. Stole the pass key at the Savoy, and let himself into Debul's room, where M convinced him to give up the idea, and come back to Paris with him. His sister worked in a lingerie shop in the Champs-Élysées Arcade, lived with a girlfriend. [1952-REV]
Lagrange, François. Called himself "Baron Lagrange", nicknamed "The Baron". Former schoolmate of Pardon's, at Lycée Henri IV, had been expected at the Pardon's dinner, at Lagrange's request, to meet M. He had left school in about his third year, lived on Rue Cuvier at the time, opposite the Jardin des Plantes. His father was a baron, or pretended to be. A few months earlier, after 20 years, had come to Pardon's office. In school, a fat lump, with a baby face and great pink legs, nicknamed "Baby Cadum" (after the monster baby in the advertisements on all the streets). Lived on Rue Popincourt , a few yards away. Diabetic with glandular troubles. Wife had died a long time ago. Some kind of business on the Rue Tronchet, card said, "Company Director," but when Pardon had called was told it had gone out of business years ago. Three children, Philippe Lagrange, a daughter, and Alain Lagrange. Pierre Delteil had met him from time to time at Le Fouquet. He killed André Delteil at his apartment, when Delteil came there, apparently in response to Lagrange's extortion attempts, in addition to those he did on behalf of Jeanne Debul. [1952-REV]
Lagrange, Philippe. François Lagrange's eldest son, married. [1952-REV]
Lagrange's daughter. M took a one of the waiting police cars to the Champs-Élysées Arcade to try to find Lagrange's daughter. Found her in the third shop he tried, a pretty girl, 21 years and 7 months old. Was 3 when her mother died, immediately after Alain Lagrange's birth. Lived 'everywhere', even near the Bois de Boulogne. Lived on Rue de Berri, two rooms in a private house, with a girlfriend. [1952-REV]
La Grosse Jaja. see: Fat Jaja
Lagrume . Old Lagrume, the man who walked so much was the most senior, though he'd never risen to Inspector. Tall and melancholy. A woman had been murdered in the Rue Caulaincourt with a kitchen knife. For nine weeks Lagrume had walked Paris, searching for who had sold the knife. He finally found it sold by a stationer on Boulevard Rochechouart, and the murderer had been found and convicted. [1950-MEM]
Janvier had Lourtie, Jamin and Lagrume out checking the possible places Marinette Augier might be, one in each district, though all were outside of the Seine district... [1963-FAN]
Inspector Lagrume was dozing at the wheel of a PJ car when M came out of Aline's. [1965-PAT]
By that time Dieudonné had been relieved by Lagrume, the gloomiest of all inspectors. He never seemed to be without a cold, and he had flat feet. [1968-ENF]
L'Aigle I. Émile Ducrau said after two years in jail he'd like to get a little tug, like L'Aigle I. [1933-ECL]
L'Aigle IV. Émile Ducrau asked Maurice if he'd come across L'Aigle IV above Chalifert, and if they had couplings. [1933-ECL]
L'Aiguillon . Adine Hulot and her husband, Justin Hulot, lived in the village of L'Aiguillon, in a little house near the harbor. Most people in L'Aiguillon were mussel gatherers, some twenty families. It was about 30 km. from Luçon. [1940-JUG]
M reminded Julien Chabot that he'd lived in Luçon for more than a year. Said he remembered a certain murder at L'Aiguillon. It was actually a case in which M had had to arrest an ex-magistrate whom everyone considered respectable, on a charge of murder. [1953-PEU]
L'Aiguillon Point . Judge Forlacroix was rambling on about some duck shoot he'd been on at L'Aiguillon Point. [1940-JUG]
La Jatte . The silence in the car lasted until the La Jatte bridge. [1951-LOG]
Lajaunie, Berthe. Worked at one of the lingerie shops in Champs-Élysées Arcade, but was on vacation. When M was searching for Alain Lagrange 's sister, he found that name. [1952-REV]
Lake Geneva . Julien Baud came from Morges, on Lake Geneva. [1968-HES]
Lalande, Madeleine. The maiden name of the Countess von Farnheim was Madeleine Lalande, born in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée. Was once a member of the troupe of the Casino de Paris.... Mother was a maid. Never knew her father. Came to Paris as a chambermaid. [1950-PIC]
Lalinde, François. François Lalinde lived across the street from Adrien Josset. 76, retired colonial adminstrator. Cared for by Julie, a maid he'd brought back from Africa. [1959-CON]
Lallemant. For the past year Mme. Leroy had been the companion of Mme. Lallemant, the mother of a doctor, who lived alone near the Charenton lock, just across the way. [1945-PIP]
Lamalle . Old Dr Paul, who had gone on making post mortems till he was 76, had died, and been succeeded by a man named Lamalle. [1961-PAR]
Lamarck . In the past 6 months five women had been killed, all in Montmartre, and all in the same district, between the four métro stations Lamarck, Abbesses, Place Blanche and Place de Clichy. [1955-TEN]
Lamarck, Rue . A red light came on, a direct call from the alarm box on the corner of the Rue Caulaincourt and the Rue Lamarck. [1946-MAL]
Joseph Gastin said he was born in Paris, Rue Caulaincourt, 18th, and his wife was from the Rue Lamarck. [1953-ECO]
At Place de Clichy, M told the driver to go up Rue Caulaincourt. They passed the Rue Lamarck, and entered a section where nothing had happened so far. M told the driver to keep on going and come back by the Rue des Abbesses.... Joséphine Simmer, born at Mulhouse, midwife, 43, lived on Rue Lamarck, had just delivered a woman at the top of the Butte, stabbed once in the back. [1955-TEN]
Annette Duché had lived with her aunt in the Rue Lamarck when she first came to Paris, but they quarreled and she rented a small apartment on Rue Caulaincourt. [1959-CON]
"The Madwoman", Clémentine Pholien of Rue Lamarck. Had been coming two or three times a week for months to the Quai des Orfèvres.... Renée Planchon called Roger Prou at Mme. Fajon's house on the Rue Lamarck, where he was working, to tell him the police were searching their house. [1962-CLI]
Mme. Vireveau rented the other bedroom at Les Iris. She was a widow from Paris, Rue Lamarck. [1967-VIC]
The painter with the workshop next to Léon Florentin's said he lived on the Rue Lamarck. [1968-ENF]
Lamballe . Lucas had called Lamballe in the 9th Arrondissement about Mme M's adventure, and he'd located the taxi driver. [1949-MME]
Lambert. Daniel told M that his wife called Dr. Lambert for the red blotches on his child. [1946-MAL]
Lambert Hôtel . see: Hôtel Lambert
Lambert, Rue . M. and Torrence went to the police station there, rather than checking out every house on Rue Caulaincourt to find Marcel Vivien's ex-wife. [1971-SEU]
Lambert, The widow. Kept the café on the other side of the square at Porquerolles, sometimes slept with Marcellin, according to Jojo. Whenever he caught some sea-wolves (des loups) he'd bring them to her. [1949-AMI]
Lambilliote . The local superintendent, whom M met frequently, arrived at the Émile Parendon's before M. [1968-HES]
Lamblin. Lapointe told M that the lawyer Lamblin, who came in for a lot of discussion at the Law Courts, little of it favorable, had got ahold of Ginette Meurant during the break. [1959-ASS]
Lambois. Mme. Keller said she had a friend, Mme. Lambois, who lived just on the other side of the Seine. [1962-CLO]
La Meuse. Jean Chabot went to La Meuse , Liège newpaper office, to deliver legal notices. [1931-GAI]
La Mode du Jour. Mlle. Otard acted as though if she left the room too long someone would steal her old copies of La Mode du Jour. [1937-38-MAN]
La Montagne. Mlle. Irène thought the girl [Louise Laboine]'s name was Louise, possibly something similar to La Montagne or La Bruyère. [1954-JEU]
La Morue Française . The captain, Octave Fallut, had boarded with a widow in the Rue d'Étretat. He'd been sailing for La Morue Française for 15 years. [1931-REN]
Lamotte, Blanche. Auguste Point's secretary. 42. Started to work for him as a typist when she was 17, just out of school. From a village near La Roche-sur-Yon. Her father was a butcher. [1954-MIN]
La-Motte-Picquet, Avenue de . François Ricain arranged for M to meet him in a bar called Le Métro, on the corner of Boulevard de Grenelle, and Avenue de La-Motte-Picquet.... Jacques Huguet said François and his wife must have eaten in a self-service place on the Avenue de La-Motte-Picquet, as they hadn't eaten at the Old Wine Press. [1966-VOL]
Lamotte, Victor. Léon Florentin said in addition to him Joséphine Papet had other friends, François Paré, Fernand Courcel, Victor Lamotte, and the young redhead [Jean-Luc Bodard].... Victor Lamotte lived in Bordeaux, in a house on the river in Les Chartrons, where all the old, established familes lived. In Paris he had a suite at the Hôtel Scribe, almost next door to his office in the Rue Auber. He was a winegrower, exporting mainly to Germany and Scandinavian countries. [1968-ENF]
Lamoureux, Concerts. see: Concerts Lamoureux
lamp. On M's desk was a lamp, darkened by a huge green shade. [1936-BEA]
Lamperrière. One of the men playing cards at the Hôtel de la Marne was Lamperrière, who was losing. [1930-PRO]
Lampson, Mary. The dead woman found by the two carters.... Willy Marco said Mary Lampson was 40. Real name was Céline Mornet, though she claimed to be Marie Dupin. [1930-PRO]
Lampson, Walter. The owner of the Southern Cross, husband of the dead woman, Mary Lampson introducted himself to M: Sir Walter Lampson, retired colonel of the Indian Army.... 68. Had been married twice before Mary Lampson. [1930-PRO]
La Mulatière . Frédéric Michaux, better known as Fred the Boxer, was the landlord of the inn Le Pont du Grau, in La Mulatière. 330 yards farther on, a 30 hectare farm, with low buildings; Groux's, which was to be sold at auction at La Mulatière on Jan. 15. [1939-VEN]
Lamule. see: Lamure
Lamure . The concierge at Émile Parendon's. M couldn't remember if it was Lamule or Lamure. He had worked on Rue des Saussaies for many years, a former inspector of Criminal Investigation, so he recognized M. [1968-HES]
Lamure, Nicole. Louise Voivin had lived with her husband, Ferdinand Voivin, a dealer in precious stones, and her sister Nicole Lamure, 18, born in Orléans. [1936-BEA]
Lancaster Hotel . Inspector Pyke had posted a man there, Fenton, red-haired, with a moustache, to check when Alain Lagrange got to the letter L. Fenton followed him to the Montreal, after which Alain lost him by jumping into a cab. [1952-REV]
Lancet. After dinner Pardon had taken a magazine with a white cover out of his pocket, the English medical journal, the Lancet. [1960-VIE]
Lancia. 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. They got into a red Lancia and stopped in front of a hotel. She ran away, called M from a bar. [1964-DEF]
Lancieux, Francine de. Francine Josselin, née Francine de Lancieux, was the daughter of a retired colonel. [1961-BRA]
Lancieux, Philippe de. Francine Josselin said that her brother, Philippe de Lancieux, was eight years younger. He had tuberculosis and went to Haute-Savoie from 5 to 12. Their mother had died a few days after he was born. Their father seemingly held it against Philippe, and started to drink. He sent Philippe to a Catholic school in Montmorency. He ran away at 14, and was found two days later in Le Havre. He was moved to another near Versailles. He enlisted in the Army and in May, 1940, was taken prisoner in the Ardennes, spending the war in Germany, in a camp, then a farm near Munich.... Philippe de Lancieux had been found dead, stabbed several times with a knife, near a bar on Avenue des Ternes. He'd been living for some months with a prostitute named Angèle. He'd told her he'd escaped from Fontevrault where he'd been serving a 20-year sentence. [1961-BRA]
Landin, Céline. Émilie Thouret's other sister was Céline, Monique Thouret told M. Her husband, Julien Landin, also worked for the railroad, like her uncle Albert Magnin. [1952-BAN]
Landin, Julien. Émilie Thouret's other sister was Céline Landin, Monique Thouret told M. Her husband, Julien, also worked for the railroad, like her uncle Albert Magnin. Julien Landin, Céline's husband, would be arriving on the Blue Train for the funeral. [1952-BAN]
Landru .
[Henri Landru enticed women with offers of marriage and killed them after he had stripped them of all their assets. He was tried at the Seine-et-Oise Assizes Court and on being found guilty was sentenced to death for the murder of eleven women. On February 25, 1922 he was guillotined. (The Paris press was convinced that public opinion was as excited about the Stavisky-Prince affair as it had been by the cases of Landru and Violet Nozières. Assouline p.123. )]
The doctor said he remembered that M had solved the Landru case, one that M had had nothing to do with. [1943-CAD]
In the space of half a century, there hadn't been more than a score of sensational cases, including the Bonnot case, the Mestorino case, the Landru case, the Sarrat case, and a few others.... [1950-MEM]
M felt like answering, "And Landru? Was that child's play too?" [1951-LOG]
Landry, Marcel. Came upstairs from the Hundred Keys Club to talk to M. About 35. M had known him when he was 18, just up from the provinces. His father was postmaster general at Angers or Tours, or some large town on the Loire. Had visited M with the press card of a scandal magazine. [1964-DEF]
Lange, Francine. Hélène Lange's younger sister, about 5 or 6 years younger, first worked in La Rochelle as a manicurist. Went to Paris, eventually returned to La Rochelle and bought a hairdressing establishment in Place des Armes. Unmarried, on holiday in Majorca when her sister was murdered.... blue-eyed, looked younger then the 40 she was. Had lived in Paris 11 years. Had had a child fifteen years earlier, Philippe Lange, she'd put with foster parents in the Vosges. [1967-VIC]
Lange, Hélène. Hélène Lange, 48, had been born at Marsilly, about 10 miles from La Rochelle. Her mother had kept a small dry goods store in the Place de l'Église. She was the elder of two daughters, had taken a course of shorthand and typing at La Rochelle. Later worked in a shipping office, and then went to Paris. [1967-VIC]
Lange, Philippe. Francine Lange's son, who drowned in a pond when he was two and a half. [1967-VIC]
Langeron. Chinquier had located a door-to-door salesman, Langeron. He'd had an aperitif in a brasserie in Place de Clichy, and then a meal in a little restaurant in Rue Caulaincourt. Returning to the Avenue Junot, he'd seen a yellow Jaguar outside Norris Jonker's house, with a red "TT" in the license plate. Two men carrying a third came out to the car. [1963-FAN]
Langevin. Mathilde Goldfinger's doctor, Dr. Langevin, was with her when Lognon arrived. [1946-MAL]
Langlois . The "antiquated clerk in long grey overalls" in records division, upstairs at the Quai des Orfèvres in the attics, where files were kept on everyone who had dealings with the police. M, looking for the records on Marcellin, asked after his wife, but was reminded that it was his mother-in-law who was ill. (She'd had an operation and went home the day before.) [1949-AMI]
Langlois from the Fraud Squad recognized the name Lorilleux, who had been seen frequently crossing the boarder into Switzerland. [1950-NOE]
Langlois, Joseph. Spoke to M at Zenith Transport. Said Dieudonné Pape had worked there 25 years. [1955-COR]
Langres . At the far end of the canal, beyond the Langres plateau, the Saône, Chalon-sur-Saône, Mâcon, Lyon... [1930-PRO]
Lanier. On the first floor was Madame Faisant, a widow, saleswoman in a couture house, and a couple named Lanier, of private means. [1963-FAN]
Lannec, Yves. Yves Lannec was the captain of the Saint-Michel. He had a brown mustache and shrewd eyes. [1932-POR]
La Noue. The Bréjons [Victor Bréjon] were connected with the La Noues through their mother. [1943-CAD]
Lanvin. Étienne Gouin said that at five past ten, one of his colleagues, Dr. Lanvin, had come up to see him. [1953-TRO]
La Pérouse . Dr Paul had called and asked M to get in touch. He was at the La Pérouse restaurant. [1953-TRO]
Lapie, Ernest. Jules Lapie's family had arrived for the funeral. Ernest Lapie, the ship's carpenter from Fécamp was an uncouth man with close-cropped, bristling hair and a pockmarked face. [1942-FEL]
Lapie, Étienne. Ernest Lapie called to his children, Étienne Lapie and Julie Lapie to keep out of the flower beds. [1942-FEL]
Lapie, Jules. M was there to investigate the murder of Jules Lapie, nicknamed Peg Leg.... Jules Lapie always kept his glass turned bottom up on the barrel in the cellar. He'd named his house Cape Horn.... Jules Lapie had had a huge head, a square jaw, thick grey eyebrows, and gray bristles all over his face, for he shaved but once a week. [1942-FEL]
Lapie, Julie. Ernest Lapie called to his children, Étienne Lapie and Julie Lapie to keep out of the flower beds. [1942-FEL]
La Pie Qui Danse . Jean-Claude Ternel had gone with Marinette Augier to La Pie Qui Danse, out in the country between Meulan and Apremont. [1963-FAN]
Lapin. 4th floor tenants in Léontine Antoine's building. Wife worked in a menswear shop in the Rue de Rivoli, husband an insurance salesman. [1970-FOL]
Lapinsky. Sass & Lapinsky. Jewelry factory on the 2nd floor above Frans Steuvels' studio. Employed about 20 girls and 4 or 5 men. [1949-MME]
La Planta . Éléonore Boursang spoke of speculating in the La Planta mines last August, an investment Henri Gallet thought was too risky. [1930-GAL]
Lapointe . M called little Lapointe into his office. 24. Father a bank clerk in Meulan. Youngest sister Germaine Lapointe, 18, lived with him, worked for a publisher on the Left Bank.... M had sent little Lapointe to investigate Frans Steuvels, under the guise of being a sanitary inspector.... Lapointe called M "Monsieur Maigret." He was longing to say "Chief" like Lucas or Janvier, but felt too much of a newcomer.... M asked Lapointe if he could drive. He said he'd had a license for two years, and M had him get the blue Peugeot to drive him down and Dr Paul to Lagny. [1949-MME]
24 years old, as he'd told Arlette.... Lapointe was sitting in his office when the policeman from the 9th brought Arlette to the QDO. ... Lapointe told M that he was the Albert who was Arlette's boyfriend. M said he hadn't remembered that Lapointe's name was Albert. M said "You haven't been with us very long..." Lapointe told M he had been with a school friend from Meulan, who didn't come to Paris often. They went out with Lapointe's sister, took her home, then went to Montmartre, where the Grasshopper gave them Picratt's card. About three weeks earlier. Arlette sat at their table. Lapointe went back the next day. [1950-PIC]
Young Lapointe had been scheduled to relieve Janvier at 7:00 in the morning. [1951-MEU]
M called Janvier and Lapointe. Before giving them instructions he called the Brasserie Dauphine to have them send up beer and sandwiches.... Young Lapointe when he'd come in had wondered why M and his men were so grimly persistent. [1951-LOG]
Neither Lucas nor Janvier, nor even young Lapointe were in the Inspector's office.... Lapointe was checking the rooming houses.... Arlette called Lapointe "the dark one with lots of hair." [1952-BAN]
M sent young Lapointe to relieve Janin. [1953-TRO]
M sent for Lapointe, told him to take the girl's clothes up to Moers, and then take the dress to a model agency in the Rue Saint-Florentin, to have someone the same size model the dress for a photo.... Lapointe could still blush, after two years in Police Headquarters! [1954-JEU]
M had Lapointe go to the National School of Civil Engineering, in the Rue des Saints-Pères. He used to lunch in a small restaurant almost opposite it. Told him to find out about Jules Piquemal.... Lapointe came in while M was talking on the phone to Auguste Point. The went together to the Ministry of Public Works, in one of the small black cars of Police Headquarters. M said "You drive."... M sent Lapointe to the of DeputiesChamber of Deputies to take deputy Joseph Mascoulin's statement. [1954-MIN]
His youth, eagerness, artless confusion when he thought he had committed a faux pas, amused M. He arrived at the Quai de Valmy after M, in a small black police car... referred to as "the little fellow" at the Quai des Orfèvres, because he was the youngest and most junior of the inspectors. Had caught Antoine Cristin , the errand boy for the Maison Pincemail. [1955-COR]
Lapointe appeared from time to time, as did Torrence, Mauvoisin - a new member of the force - and others.... Lapointe, wearing blue overalls, was steering a delivery tricycle around the streets of the Grands-Carrières district. With his cap over one ear and his cigarette stuck to his lower lip, he looked 18.... M motioned to Lapointe to stay where he was and to take down what was said during the interrogation of Marcel Moncin. [1955-TEN]
M decided to send Lapointe to watch over Ferdinand Fumal.... It was too early in the morning for Lapointe's call. Fumal was dead. [1956-ECH]
At the corner of the Rue des Saints-Pères M stopped, for he saw young Lapointe a hundred yards away, smoking a cigarette.... M wondered who was keeping watch near Gilbert Négrel's house, Lapointe, Gianini?... The newpaper article said Lapointe and Neveu had just left the Quai des Orfèvres. [1956-AMU]
M looked around for who to bring with him to the Hôtel George-V. Janvier was there, but working on the robbery with assault. He called to Lapointe to come, and told Lucas where they'd be. Young Lapointe looked up delightedly. They got a car; Lapointe drove.... There were three of them at Police Headquarters whose admiration for the superintendent amounted to a cult: Lucas, the oldest, Janvier, who had once been as young, as inexperienced and as enthusiastic as Lapointe, the third, "little Lapointe" as they called him.... Young Lapointe, although the newest member of the team, was beginning to know M. [1957-VOY]
M picked young Lapointe, who had less training and less experience, but who often passed for a student or young clerk, to follow up the Xavier Marton investigation. M sent him to the lingerie shop in the Rue Saint-Honoré .... M had taken him under his wing when he came to the Quai des Orfèvres two years earlier; he had made remarkable progress.... M decided to leave the door to the inspectors' office slightly ajar, and to install Lapointe there, who was a fairly good shorthand writer. [1957-SCR]
Old Joseph, who had for some mysterious reason escaped the retired-list, greeted him with "Inspector Lapointe is waiting for you." [1958-TEM]
M called in Lapointe to record Adrien Josset's statement in shorthand. [1959-CON]
Lapointe had been sitting ready to take down the interrogation in shorthand.... Lapointe called. He said Bonfils was in the courtroom keeping close to Ginette Meurant. M said for him to stay close to her, and to get Jussieu as a backup with a car. [1959-ASS]
M sent for young Lapointe to give him some instructions. [1960-VIE]
Aristide Fumel was one of the few whom M addressed as tu. Another was Lucas, but not Janvier, though he couldn't say why not. And then the very young ones, like little Lapointe.... M had Lapointe deal with the problem of the 17-year-old daughter of a prominent man, who'd been going to drama school and had appeared in several crowd scenes in films. [1961-PAR]
Torrence said that in the office were Dupeu, interrogating a suspect in a jewel case, Vacher, and Lapointe had just come in. M told Torrence to have Lapointe go to the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs and wait for him. When M arrived by taxi he saw a small black car belonging to Police Headquarters and Lapointe on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette. [1961-BRA]
For a moment, somewhere between the Quai des Orfèvres and the Pont Marie, M halted, so briefly that Lapointe did not notice. [1962-CLO]
Lapointe had told Antonio Farano that Lucas was probably at the Brasserie Dauphine.... M sent Lapointe to check on Jean-Charles Gaillard's American car. [1962-COL]
Bonfils and young Lapointe were the officers on duty that night.... Lapointe, seeing M light his pipe, took the opportunity to light a cigarette. [1963-FAN]
Lucas was away. Young Lapointe was on vacation. Janvier was typing a report. [1964-DEF]
Lucas said Lapointe was in the office. [1965-PAT]
Apart from his closest collaboarators, like Lucas, Janvier, Torrence, and, more recently, Lapointe, Doctor Pardon was M's only friend.... M had Lucas tell Lapointe to come and pick him up by car. [1966-NAH]
Lapointe was little more than 25 years old.... M saw the truck from Records Department, Lapointe, and big Torrence arrive at the Rue Saint-Charles. He told Torrence to bring François Ricain back to his office. [1966-VOL]
M had Lapointe check on paper manufacturers for Morvan Vellum. After the third anonymous letter, M had Lapointe stay at the Émile Parendon's house. with Lamure.... Lapointe was in M's office when he got to the Quai des Orfèvres on the day of the murder. [1968-HES]
M looked uncertainly from Janvier to Lapointe, both at their desks.... M told Lapointe to keep watch on Léon Florentin. [1968-ENF]
M gathered three of his favorite inspectors, Janvier, Lucas and young Lapointe - who would probably still be called that when he was 50 - into his office. [1969-TUE]
Lapointe came in while M was interrogating Théo Stiernet , and said that Fourquet had called.... Lapointe was typing with only two fingers, but he could type faster than most trained secretaries.... M gathered five of his inspectors for the search for Gilbert Pigou, Lucas, Lapointe, Lourtie, Torrence and Janvier. He left Lapointe on call in the office, ready to pick up M at any time.... M had Lapointe come with him to the Rue Fortuny. They took one of the little black police cars parked in the forecourt. [1969-VIN]
M was in conference with Janvier and Lapointe when Old Joseph came in with Léontine Antoine's request to see M. Lapointe saw her, told her he was 27 when she asked if he were M's son. Didn't look a day over 22. ... Lapointe told Janvier that one of his aunts was a patient in a mental hospital.... Lapointe often did duty as stenographer. He brought his shorthand pad to take down Angèle Louette's statement.... M told Lapointe to make sure not to take the car with the engine rattle to go to Le Grand Marcel's. [1970-FOL]
Janvier was the only one whom M regularly addressed by the familiar tu, though occasionally he did so to Lapointe, the most junior of the officers. M had Torrence take down the Louis Mahossier interview in shorthand. It was usually Lapointe, the most highly skilled stenographer in the department, but Torrence was competent enough. Lucas and Lapointe were on holiday. [1971-SEU]
M told Janvier he'd probably need him, as well as Lucas and Lapointe. [1971-IND]
It was now almost ten years since Lapointe had joined the Police Judiciaire. In those days he'd been known as "Little Lapointe". He'd been tall and lanky, but he'd gotten stouter, married, had two children. [1972-CHA]
Lapointe, Germaine. Lapointe's youngest sister, 18, lived with him, worked for a publisher on the Left Bank. [1949-MME]
Lapointe, Juliette. Juliette Tremblet's maiden name was Juliette Lapointe. She was from Cantal, like her husband, Maurice Tremblet. [1946-PAU]
La Pommeraye, Germain. Germain La Pommeraye, notary at Versailles arrived in a big, chauffeur-driven car. [1937-38-NOY]
La Pommeraye, Viviane. Germain La Pommeraye's daughter, Viviane, 17, looked like 20, he said. [1937-38-NOY]
La Popine. Francis Decoin lived with Mme. Popineau, who they called La Popine. She had a pretty shop on the corner of the Rue de la République.... La Popine said the cooper's daughter was probably older than 14 or 15, "already well developed... nice little full breasts." [1947-VAC]
Lappe, Rue de . No. 18 Rue de la Roquette turned out to be a low-class hotel. Less than 50 yards from the Place de la Bastille, the Rue de Lappe, with its little dance-halls, leads into it. [1930-31-PHO]
Oscar said if M checked at Police Headquarters they'd say he'd been picked up once or twice in raids, as he used to go to the Rue de Lappe to dance a java... [1931-NUI]
P'tit Louis said no one had believed his stories of the Rue de Lappe, but now M was there. [1931-REN]
The luggage room attendant at the Gare du Nord who'd taken the bag from Loraine Martin lived outside of Paris, somewhere near La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, but played the trumpet after work in a dance band in the Rue de Lappe. [1950-NOE]
Slowly the skein will unravel. First a name, Otto. He was sometimes in the Rue de Bondy, a little bar frequented by homosexuals of the lowest level. Another on the Rue de Lappe which has become a tourist attraction. [1950-MEM]
Priollet had said it was a skivvy who'd started picking up men along the Boulevard Sébastopol. A shopkeeper from Béziers had had his pocket picked and he'd given a good enough description to pick up Thérèse in a dancehall in the Rue de Lappe. [1953-ECO]
That evening they'd done Paris by Night: They'd gone to Les Halles, Place Pigalle, Rue de Lappe and the Champs-Élysées, their tickets including the cost of a drink at each place. [1956-ECH]
Ginette Meurant had been seen frequently at dance halls around La Chapelle and Rue de Lappe, most recently one on Rue des Gravilliers. [1959-ASS]
Aline had worked for about six months for a very rich family in Neuilly, even after she'd starting frequenting the dance halls in the Gravilliers district, and on Rue de Lappe. [1964-DEF]
Émile Branchu's girlfriends were not the type found in the neighborhood or in the Rue de Lappe.... Antoine Batille recorded the sounds of dancehalls on the Rue de Lappe. [1969-TUE]
Lapps. 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]
La Presse. That evening La Presse reported that Louis Viaud, 56, the butler, from Anseval, Nièvre, had shot a burglar. [1948-PRE]
La Presse Médicale . The books under the bridge included Verlaine's "Sagesse", Bossuet's "Oraisons Funèbres," the second half of Las Cases' "Memorial de Sainte-Hélène," and an old issue of "La Presse Médicale." [1962-CLO]
Lara, Jeanine de. 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]
Larcher. The second floor tenants were the Larchers. Rose was their maid, from Normandy. M heard her yelling at one of the children, Jean-Paul! Jean-Paul! [1954-JEU]
Larcher, Jean-Paul. The second floor tenants were the Larchers. Rose was their maid, from Normandy. M heard her yelling at one of the children, Jean-Paul! Jean-Paul! [1954-JEU]
Lardois, Raoul . M went to see Superintendent Raoul Lardois of the Gaming Squad. He'd joined the Judicial Police at the same time as M, and they were on Christian name terms. [1966-NAH]
Lardy. Oscar told his wife to remind Jojo to repair Lardy's truck. [1931-NUI]
La Ribaudière. Leduc had printed notepaper with his address: La Ribaudière, par Villefranche-en-Dordogne. [1932-FOU]
Lariboisière . Arlette Sudre had found out from a young doctor, a resident at Lariboisière that she couldn't have children. [1949-DAM]
Larignan. Maître. The lawyer for the Octave Le Cloaguen's at Saint-Raphaël M called to arrange for the old Le Cloaguen place to be searched. [1941-SIG]
Larner, Bill. The car belonged to a garage at the Porte Maillot. It had been rented to an American, Bill Larner, living at the Hôtel Wagram, Avenue de Wagram.... Jimmy MacDonald said Bill Larner was known as "Sweet Bill". Had left the US two years earlier, and spent a few months in Havana before sailing for Europe. One of the best con men in America.... Bill Larner was 40, born in Omaha. [1951-LOG]
La Roche-sur-Yon . M said he'd have to call the Public Prosecutor at La Roche-sur-Yon.... Judge Forlacroix called Dr. Brénéol to ask about a good nursing home around La Roche-sur-Yon. He recommended the Villa Albert Premier. [1940-JUG]
Étienne Naud had been called to La Roche-sur-Yon. [1943-CAD]
Philippe Bellamy had driven to La Roche-sur-Yon with his sister-in-law, Lili Godreau, where she went to a piano concert.... M took the phone and asked the operator for La Roche-sur-Yon 118, the Examining Magistrate. [1947-VAC]
The maiden name of the Countess von Farnheim was Madeleine Lalande, born in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée. [1950-PIC]
When Alain Vernoux had come back from La Roche-sur-Yon, he told Julien Chabot about a case he'd been studying. [1953-PEU]
Auguste Point, Minister of Public Works. All M knew was that he was a lawyer from the Vendée, from La Roche-sur-Yon. [1954-MIN]
La Rochefoucauld, Rue de . M and Police-Constable Lecoeur were alone in the Saint-Georges Police Station in the quiet Rue de la Rochefoucauld. [1948-PRE]
The police station was almost opposite, behind Picratt's, on the Rue de la Rochefoucauld. From where they stood they could both see the blue lanterns and the policemen's bicycles against the wall. [1950-PIC]
Lognon belonged to the 2nd Precinct in the 9th arrondissement, and his office was at the police station on Rue de La Rochefoucauld. [1951-LOG]
M had completely forgotten that the Second District was Lognon's sector - Lognon, who his colleagues called "Old Grouch". But maybe Lognon wasn't on night duty in the Rue de La Rochefoucauld. [1954-JEU]
La Rochelle . Yves Lannec said he knew Yves Joris as well as anyone from La Rochelle to Rotterdam. [1932-POR]
Jacques Rivaud said he'd driven over to La Rochelle on Tuesday. [1932-FOU]
Ernest Combarieu was born in Marsilly, near La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime). [1946-OBS]
Alfred said that Émile Duffieux had taken a train several times, to Nantes, La Roche [La Roche-sur-Yon] or La Rochelle, and he'd always used a travel warrent, free first-class. [1947-VAC]
Louise Sabati lived on the bend in the La Rochelle road near the barracks, in a large dilapidated house with 6 or 7. [1953-PEU]
Saint-André-sur-Mer was about 9 miles north of La Rochelle, not far from the Aiguillon headland. [1953-ECO]
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. They got into a red Lancia and stopped in front of a hotel. She ran away, called M ... Nicole Prieur had told M her friend's name was Laure Dubuisson, daughter of a fishseller in La Rochelle. [1964-DEF]
Rose Vatan asked M if he'd stay for dinner. She was born in La Rochelle, had mouclade, chaudrée Fourrassienne - M knew it, made of eel, baby sole, cuttlefish... M said he'd been to La Rochelle, and to Fourras.... Rose said she could offer M 2 or 3 dozen scallops her 75-year-old mother had just sent from La Rochelle. Said she'd made duck à l'orange... M had the scallops and caneton à l'orange for dinner. [1966-VOL]
Hélène Lange had been born at Marsilly, about 10 miles from La Rochelle. [1967-VIC]
François Paré's eldest daughter was married to a shipowner in La Rochelle.... Joséphine Papet had told Fernand Courcel her father was a fisherman in La Rochelle, drowned at sea. She had four younger brothers and sisters... [1968-ENF]
La Rose. see: Trochu, Rose
Larrieu, Jaquette. Jaquette Larrieu was the housekeeper of the Comte Armand de Saint-Hilaire, who had retired 12 years earlier, and had been living in Paris in his flat in the Rue Saint-Dominique. She'd been with him for 42 years. That morning she'd found him dead, in his study, shot a number of times. [1960-VIE]
Larrouy . Larrouy, who'd been left in the Lucile Duffieux's room, complained that Mansuy had promised to send someone to relieve him. [1947-VAC]
Larue. Mme. Francine Josselin was in the hands of Dr. Larue, the family doctor, a friend of Saint-Hubert's.... Dr. Larue was a small, chubby man, broad-shouldered, a man who would never lose his composure, dignity or gentleness. In spite of his 50-odd years, his blue eyes still showed innocence and fear of causing pain. [1961-BRA]
Larue et Georget . The letter from Émile Duffieux was written on paper with the heading of the local printers, Larue et Georget, where he had worked. [1947-VAC]
LaSalle, Boulevard de . [Vichy] Mme. Vireveau said she almost bumped into a man at the corner of Boulevard de LaSalle and Rue du Bourbonnais. [1967-VIC]
Las Cases .
[Las Cases, Emmanuel(-Augustin-Dieu-donné-Joseph), comte de. born 1766, Languedoc, Fr., died 1842, Passy. French historian best-known as the recorder of Napoleon's last conversations on St. Helena, the publication of which contributed greatly to the Napoleonic legend in Europe. His Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène was the first defense of Napoleon after his defeat.]
The books under the bridge included Verlaine's "Sagesse", Bossuet's "Oraisons Funèbres," the second half of Las Cases' "Memorial de Sainte-Hélène," and an old issue of "La Presse Médicale." [1962-CLO]
La Serte, Louise. There'd been a knifing on the Rue de Flandre, and the Countess Louise Paverini, née Louise La Serte's attempted suicide. [1957-VOY]
La Seyne-sur-Mer . M and Marella drove through La Seyne-sur-Mer in Marella's car, and were soon in sight of Sanary Point. [1970-FOL]
Lasnier. René Delfosse's uncle Lasnier, the chocolate maker of the Rue Léopold. Comfortable, well-dressed man about 50. Reported that no money was missing from the till the day before, when Delfosse claimed to have taken it from there. [1931-GAI]
La Source . A man who'd been a waiter at La Source in Ernest Malik's student days said Malik made his living playing poker. [1945-FAC]
Lassagne. The evening papers called it a "New Petiot Case". The article was written by little Lassagne, one of the sharpest-witted reporters.... Lassagne, thin and red-faced, lively as a monkey.... Lassagne had found another case of a doctor, in the South of France, where the corpse of one of his patients had been found in his cupboard. [1956-AMU]
Lassave, Nina. Marcel Vivien's girlfriend. Had her own apartment on the Boulevard Rochechouart, not very far from Place Pigalle, inherited from her mother who had died the year before. A pharmacy on one side, bakery on the other. Had worked in a lingerie shop in Rue Lepic when she first took up with Vivien, but quit soon after. When she became Louis Mahossier's girl friend as well, Vivien strangled her in a fit of rage. [1971-SEU]
La Tétoune. La Tétoune was a portly Marseillaise [Marseilles] who was reputed to do the best southern cooking in Paris. [1962-COL]
Latin. Jeanne Jeunet said Louis Jeunet knew they Latin name for every plant. [1930-31-PHO]
The weedy little fair-haired man who taught them Latin used to say "You wen't allow us to forget that we were descended from apes, I see, Master Florentin [Léon Florentin]. [1968-ENF]
Latin America . Mortimer-Levingston was tall, slim, with a small head, black hair, parted in the middle. Looked like a Latin American. [1929-30-LET]
M. Philippe had left a report on Raymond Couchet's desk, that included publicity plans for Latin-American countries. [1931-OMB]
Because of his Latin-American appearance, Edgar Fagonet called himself Zebio. [1939-MAJ]
Jean Maura had been seen talking to a Chilean woman on the ship, who was leaving the next day for Latin America on one of the Grace Line ships. [1946-NEW]
Latin Quarter . M had put two men to finding out about Jean Ducrau, in the Quartier Latin, the École des Chartes and at Charenton. [1933-ECL]
Roger Campois, who'd killed himself at 22, had suffered heavy gambling losses in the Latin Quarter. [1945-FAC]
Bob d'Anseval's father lived in a small flat in the Latin Quarter. [1948-PRE]
Christmas Eve Paul Martin had eaten on the Salvation Army barge. Around 11:00 he went to the Latin Quarter and worked as a door-keeper at a nightclub. [1950-NOE]
The Chief retained a certain Latin Quarter streak, from the days when the Latin Quarter still went in for hoaxes. [1950-MEM]
Véronique Fabre had studied at the Sorbonne, met her husband in the Latin Quarter. [1961-BRA]
Judge Ancelin seemed like a perpetual Latin Quarter student. [1965-PAT]
M said a detective shouldn't get married, so he could get to know about every social sphere, the foreign bistros in the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain... [1966-NAH]
M took his wife to a seafood restaurant in the Latin Quarter, with a glassed in terrace pleasantly warmed by a charcoal heater. M even had some sea urchins, flown in that day from the Midi.They had a bottle of Pouilly Fumé with their grilled red mullet.... It was so warm that M and Mme M walked home from the Latin Quarter, making a detour to walk throught the Ile Saint-Louis. [1968-HES]
Jacques Riolle was the bookkeeper, who'd only been there a few months. Really only dealt with petty cash. About 40, bachelor, lived in a family boardinghouse in the Latin Quarter.... Gilbert Pigou had lived in the Latin Quarter when he met Liliane [Liliane Pigou], his future wife. [1969-VIN]
Moers was a bachelor and lived in student's lodgings in the Latin Quarter. [1971-IND]
Dr. Florian remembered that Dr. Amadieu, a psychiatrist who worked at Sainte-Anne and lived in the Latin Quarter, was a mutual friend. [1972-CHA]
La Tour d'Argent . People in the lobby were waiting to go off to Maxim's or La Tour d'Argent, or some other restaurant of the same caliber. [1957-VOY]
Latour, Francine. Janvier had a glossy photo of Francine Latour, 121 Rue de Longchamp, Passy. He said she was now in the Folies-Bergère. [1947-MOR]
Latourie, José. 71 Rue Lepic. One of the dancers at Pickwick's Bar. They said at the bar he'd gone to his country place in La Varenne. José had called Pepito Moretto, who'd killed Torrence at the Majestic Hotel, then come to Pickwick's Bar, waited for M and shot him.... News came in from the Courcelles district. José Latourie had been found dead outside the gate of the Parc Monceau, three knife wounds, also killed by Pepito. [1929-30-LET]
Latuile . Picot, the officer outside Police Headquarters along with Latuile, his old friend, when Léontine Antoine first came by. [1970-FOL]
Latvia . Pietr was of uncertain nationality, but Nordic origin, probably Latvian or Estonian. Spoke Russian, French, English and German fluently.... Pskov was in Russia. M had looked it up in an atlas. Near the Baltic. Several little countries there, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, encircled by Poland and Russia.... and there Jews as well, scattered everywhere. [1929-30-LET]
Bérenstein said before the war the two main stonecutting centers were Antwerp and Amsterdam. Most of the stonecutters were from the Baltic -- Latvia or Estonia. [1965-PAT]
L'Auberge aux Noyés . There was no village, just a single inn, the Auberge des Pêcheurs, and M knew that it was known locally as L'Auberge aux Noyés, the Drowned Men's Inn. [1937-38-NOY]
Laubier. Mme. Had taken over the Papeterie Roman when M. Roman died. A widow in her fifties. [1968-HES]
Lauer. Mme. Lauer wrote to Mme M that she was sending by express six plum-trees she'd asked for, which should do well in the Loire district. [1934-MAI]
Lauer, Émile. Émile Lauer, Philippe Lauer's father, was short-sighted, like Philippe. He'd said it was M's fault Philippe had joined the police, instead of looking for a good job in a bank. [1934-MAI]
Lauer, Philippe. Mme M was looking out the diamond-paned window, her hair in curling pins: "It's Philippe", M's nephew.... Philippe Lauer turned up his collar to hide that he was wearing a dinner jacket, but people turned to stare at his patent leather shoes.... Philippe Lauer was a great, plump, red-haired lad with a pink complexion; shortsighted, with glasses. He was Mme M's sister's son, born down in Alsace, and M had got him into the Quai des Orfèvres. [1934-MAI]
Laughton, Charles . M felt the first screen Maigret, Pierre Renoir, was relatively true to life. But in Abel Tarride he'd become flabby and obese. Harry Baur may have been a great actor, but he was 20 years older! And with Préjean he suddenly got younger. Finally, lately, with Charles Laughton, he'd become stout again, and spoke English! At least Pierre Renoir hadn't worn a bowler. [1950-MEM]
Laur, Adrienne. Torrence called from the apartment of Adrienne Laur, 28 bis Rue Brunel. Belgian, born in Antwerp, living in France 5 years. A Folies-Bergère nude. [1951-LOG]
Laure. Mme. Keller got a call from her friend Alice, wife of the Minister of the Interior. Would meet her and Laure later. [1962-CLO]
Laure Dubuisson. see: Dubuisson, Laure
Laurel and Hardy . M found a theater with a Laurel and Hardy movie |
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