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VA VAC VAD VAG VAL VAN VAR VAS VAT VAU VAV Vacher . Inspector Vacher, waiting at Mlle. Clément's for M. [1951-MEU]Vacher called M at home. A special delivery letter with a woman's writing and "Very Urgent" had arrived. It asked him to come to the Hôtel de Bretagne, Rue Richier, almost opposite the Folies-Bergère, room 47. Probably signed Mado. [1951-LOG] Janvier left M a note saying Vacher was checking the station about Maria Van Aerts' departure.... M went out into the Duty Room, drank the dregs of a glass that stood on Vacher's desk.... Vacher came back with bricks from the Quai de Billancourt, which matched the dust in Guillaume Serre's car. [1951-GRA] M told Janvier to have Vacher take the three men away. [1954-JEU] M thought of sending Vacher to the Boulevard de Courcelles. [1956-ECH] Vacher called while M was eating dinner. Jussieu was with him. [1959-ASS] Torrence said that in the office were Dupeu, interrogating a suspect in a jewel case, Vacher, and Lapointe had just come in. [1961-BRA] Torrence reported another jewel robbery, at the Plaza Athénée, on Avenue Montaigne. Vacher had been there. Torrence sent Dupeu to help. [1962-CLI] M asked Vacher if he'd ever driven an American car, sent him to pick up Jean-Charles Gaillard's. [1962-COL]
Janvier had brought inspectors Baron and Vacher to Manuel Palmari's.... Vacher drove Aline to the QDO. M told him to take Avenue de la Grande-Armée, around Place de l'Étoile, to go down the Champs-Élysées . The last time for a long time Aline would see such sights.
[1965-PAT]
Vache Rousse Vachet. Émile Ducrau called out to Vachet, "Your brother's been held up at Lazicourt..." [1933-ECL]
typo for Vacher in Penguin edition.
[1956-ECH]
Vadibert, Arsène Vague, Antoinette. Mlle. Her real name, and she didn't find it ridiculous. 24 or 25. Émile Parendon's secretary and lover. Worked for Parendon for five years, her second job in Paris. First had worked in a business on Rue Réaumur, but the work wasn't interesting. Got the Parendon job through René Tortu, whom she used to eat with at Chez Maurice on the Rue Caulaincourt. Tortoise-shell glasses, smoked cigarettes. Lived in Montmartre, on the Place Constantin-Pecqueur. Murdered by Mme. Parendon. [1968-HES] Valanchine.
A pageboy called for M. Valanchine, who had a phone call.
[1930-31-TET]
Val-de-Grâce Dr Pardon had been on the staff at Val-de-Grâce, an assistant of Lebraz. [1952-REV] Valencourt. M tried to think of inspectors who'd left the Criminal Investigation Department employ. Baudelin, tall pale young man, probably left for ill health. Falconet, over 50, asked to retire early because of his drinking. Little Valencourt. Fischer, weighed at least 200 pounds. [1954-MIN] Valentin. M.Valentin Desquerre, had been a fairly well-know light opera singer, gave singing lessons, mostly to young girls. One of the boarders at Mlle. Clément's. [1951-MEU] Valentine Besson. see: Besson, Valentine Valentine Constantinesco. see: Constantinesco, Valentine Valentine Forlacroix. see: Forlacroix, Valentine Valentine Fouque.
see: Fouque, Valentine
Valentino, Rudolf Valéry Vallée de Chevreuse Vallette, La Vallin Valmy, Quai de M checked the phone listings for Balthazar Coffee: Avenue de l'Opéra. warehouse: Quai de Valmy. managing offices: Rue Auber. [1948-PRE] Jef Schrameck had been living with Françoise Bidou for the past few years. She used to sell vegetables off a barrow. Lived on Quai de Valmy, overlooking the canal. [1952-BAN]
The lock The Two Brothers was preparing to enter when their propellor got fouled on a man's arm was between Quai de Jemmapes on the left, and Quai de Valmy on the right.
[1955-COR]
Valois, Rose Van Aerts, Maria. Guillaume Serre's wife had been Maria Van Aerts, 51, from Sneeck in Friesland, Holland. She'd lived in a boarding house in Neuilly, Rue de Longchamp. [1951-GRA] Van Cauwelaert, Jef. The other barge belonged to Jef Van Cauwelaert and his brother, called Twee Gebroeders, Two Brothers. Flemish. They were supposed to be unloading at the Saint-Martin Canal. M sent Bonfils to check.... Jef Van Cauwelaert said he'd heard the sound of someone breaking glass, coming from the biscuit factory. [1958-TEM] Van Cram, Joseph. The clerk in the Records Office, in grey overalls, found a file for the Joseph Van Cram, the wrong man. He'd worked for an insurance company in the Rue de Grenelle, had been convicted of forgery at 28, two years earlier. [1954-JEU] Van Cram, Julius. At Instanbul Germaine Laboine 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.... A Danish report said that Hans Ziegler's real name was Julius Van Cram, a Dutchman born in Groningen, son of a good family. Went to work at 22 in an Amsterdam bank, where his father was a director. Spoke several languages, was a member of the Amsterdam Yacht Club. Two years later he disappeared, along with some of the bank's funds. [1954-JEU] Van Damme, Jef. Émile Paulus' partner in the Stork case. A Belgian. 25. Married. Had been a waiter in a restaurant in the Boulevard de Strasbourg, married a model and had a little boy. Émile Paulus had met him in a bar near Les Halles nearly a year earlier. At 17 he'd been a steward on a liner and gone around the world. Planned to leave his wife and hoped to go to America. Hung around in the low bars near the Porte Saint-Denis. Often went to the races. Owned a gun, small automatic made at the Herstal state armaments factory. Passport photo, fair-haired, almost rectangular face with a jutting jaw, looked more like a gangster from La Villette than a waiter. M expected him to be picked up in Brussels.... Had been located in Brussels after he went to the US Embassy, as expected. [1951-MEU] Van Damme, Joseph. Joseph Van Damme pointed out the Norddeutscher Lloyd building, asked M if he'd heard about the new liner they'd launched, said they were customers of his. He pointed to his own building, Joseph Van Damme, Import and Export Agent.... Joseph Van Damme had been born in Liège of Flemish parents. 32. Had settled in Bremen three years before.... Armand Lecocq d'Arneville said he thought there had been a big grocers in the Rue de la Cathédrale [Liège] with the name Van Damme... but it was so long ago. [1930-31-PHO] Van Damme, Juliette. Jef Van Damme's wife, Juliette, Rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, 27a, at the back of a yard, on the 2nd floor. [1951-MEU] Van de Weert, Marguerite.
Joseph Peeters was engaged to Marguerite Van de Weert, a cousin, Dr. Van de Weert's daughter. They lived in Givet.
[1932-FLA]
Van Dongen Vaneau, Rue Janvier found Blanche Lamotte's address in a telephone directory: 63, Rue Vaneau. A quiet, provincial street, with a few trees in the gardens, #63 an unpretentious apartment. When Janvier went to see the concierge, she said she knew he was police, had seen him with the fat Superintendent when the little lady of 57 took an overdose of sleeping pills two years ago, and that other police had been there before him. [1954-MIN]
Lapointe had picked the Left Bank section around Boulevard Saint-Germain; he knew it well because he lived there. The second tailor was Polish, on the Rue Vaneau.
[1955-TEN]
Vanel Van Elst, Any. Younger sister of Liesbeth Popinga, 25, on a visit of some weeks in Delfzijl, recent law degree. Understood French, spoke poorly. [1931-HOL] Van Fleet, Jimmy.
Sergeant Ward said he took Bessie Mitchell to the Penguin Bar where his friends, four other Air Force men, were waiting: Sergeant Dan Mullins, Corporal Jimmy Van Fleet, Sergeant Ted O'Neil, and Corporal Wo Lee. Wo Lee was a Chinese who looked barely 16.
[1949-CHE]
Van Gogh Manessi said Norris Jonker grew up surrounded by Van Goghs, Pissaros, Manets and Renoirs. [1963-FAN]
M asked Line Marcia if the Van Gogh was real.
[1971-IND]
Van Hamme Van Hasselt.
Jean Duclos jumped to his feet as Mme. Van Hasselt entered the room, her hair in curlers.
[1931-HOL]
Van Hasselt Hotel Van Heuvel. Pietr was thought to be the head of an international gang, traced at various times to Paris, Amsterdam (the Van Heuvel case), Berne (the United Shipbuilders case), Warsaw (the Lipmann case), and others. [1929-30-LET] Vanier, Marcelle. Jo Mori's girlfriend was Marcelle Vanier, 22, from Béziers. She'd been a barmaid on the Rue de Ponthieu previously. [1971-IND] Van Meulen, Jef. John Arnold looked at the photographs. Jef Van Meulen [Joseph Van Meulen], of the chemical products firm, bowling in one of the squares of Saint-Tropez. He owned a villa at Mougins, near Cannes, spent a good part of the year on the Riviera. Countess Louise Paverini's second husband.... Louise Paverini called him Jef Van Meulen. [1957-VOY] Van Meulen, Joseph.
Men like Joseph Van Meulen [= Jef Van Meulen] never set foot in an office.
[1957-VOY]
Vanneau Van Offel, Laurence. Francis Decoin's wife was Laurence Decoin, née Laurence Van Offel, a cook. [1947-VAC] Van Roeten, Jef. A Belgian bargeman named Jef Van Roeten was testing the motor of his boat on the Quai de Grenelle, when the wash brought up Gérard Sabin-Levesque's body. [1972-CHA] Vansittart. A gang of Poles, 5 or 6 of them, were holed up in the squalid Hôtel des Arcades. One of them, nicknamed the Baron, had changed a bill stolen from the Vansittart farm, at a parimutuel window at Longchamps. [1940-CEC] Van Uchet. M misheard Horace Van Usschen's name as Van Uchet. [1940-JUG] Van Usschen, Horace.
Judge Forlacroix's wife had been living for years in Nice with a wealthy Dutchman named Horace Van Usschen, who had made his fortune in cocoa.
[1940-JUG]
Vanves Jacques Fleury had a wife and two kids, somewhere towards Vanves. [1954-MIN] Marinette Augier's brother, François Augier, married, lived in Vanves. Worked for an insurance company, Fraternal Assurance, office in Rue Le Peletier. [1963-FAN] Van Vlanderen.
One of the aka's of Alfred Moss.
[1949-MME]
Varenne, La Varenne, Rue de
Prince Hubert de V-- lived in the Rue de Varenne in Paris, in autumn at his château at Saint-Sauveur-en-Bourbonnais.
[1960-VIE]
Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, La Vasco. Vasco, a reporter from the Journal, had his photographer take a picture of the dog. [1931-JAU] Vassal, Georges. Alain Vernoux's friend from college, a bachelor. Vernoux might have been visiting him in town that night, said Julien Chabot. [1953-PEU] Vassilief, Marie. Maurice de Saint-Fiacre said he'd brought his mistress, Marie Vassilief with him…. Marie Vassilief arrived by taxi. She was tall and very beautiful, with perhaps artificially fair hair. She started talking in English…. The newspaper article in the Comtesse de Saint-Fiacre's missal reported the suicide of Maurice de Saint-Fiacre, in an apartment in the Rue de Miromesnil, where he had lived with his Russian mistress, Marie V. [1932-FIA] Vatan, Rose.
Rose Vatan, Bob Mandille's wife, sang in the Trianon-Lyrique as Rose Delval. Reminded M that they'd met in his office, 22 years earlier, when he'd arrested someone who'd stolen jewels from her dressing room.
[1966-VOL]
Vaucottes Vaucresson
Janvier took his children to his mother-in-law's at Vaucresson on Sunday.
[1968-HES]
Vaud M told Aristide Fumel that in all likelihood the body was that of Honoré Cuendet, a Swiss from Vaud, who'd spent five years in the Foreign Legion.... Mme. Justine Cuendet was about 50 when she'd come to Paris. She'd come from Sénarclens, a tiny hamlet in the canton of Vaud, near a village called Cossonay. [1961-PAR]
Julien Baud came from Morges, on Lake Geneva, canton of Vaud.
[1968-HES]
Vaudois Vaudry, the Comte and Comtesse of.
Stationery M had seen in the window of Papeterie Roman.
[1968-HES]
Vaugirard, Rue de Désiré Campois had worked for a building contractor in the Vaugirard district. [1945-FAC] M and Lapointe were on their way to the Boulevard Pasteur, and got stuck behind a bus on the Rue Vaugirard. [1954-MIN]
François Ricain said he'd found a bar in the Rue Vaugirard and had three glasses of rum after he found his wife's body.
[1966-VOL]
Vauquelin Vauquin.
Cook at Émile Parendon's. Husband was a pastry chef. Ferdinand Fauchois said her husband was a drunk who beat her twice a week.
[1968-HES]
Vautrin Vavin, Rue Lucas had checked at the Coupole, where the girls were known. They'd sent him to the Dingo, then to the Cigogne. Finally he found them in a little American bar in the Rue Vavin. [1930-PRO] They had only to go up Rue Vavin. Larue and M went along the sidewalk. [1961-BRA] VE Vecher . M went out into the Duty Room, drank the dregs of a glass that stood on Vecher's desk. (Typo for Vacher in the MacLaren-Ross translation, correct in Stewart). [1951-GRA]Velden.
Mme. Mme. Velden ran the vegetable shop, biggest gossip around. A man (M) had come in asking about Jean Chabot.
[1931-GAI]
Vel' d'Hiv' Véliard Vélodrome d'Hiver.
Roger Prou had wanted to be a professional bicycle racer. Not Tour de France, track. Raced two years as a junior in the Vélodrome d'Hiver.
[1962-CLI]
Velpeau, de Velthuis, Nelly.
Louise Bodin said Évelina Nahour's maid was Nelly Velthuis, and that she was also Dutch.... Nelly Velthuis was 24, born in Friesland in the north of Holland, had gone to Amsterdam when she was 15.
[1966-NAH]
Vendée The butcher had gone to the Vendée the day before - Once a month he went to Luçon where he kept cattle. [1938-ceu] Frédéric Michaux, better known as Fred the Boxer, was the landlord of the inn at Le Pont du Grau. Miles from the nearest village, in the middle of the marshes of La Vendée. [1939-ven] The little old woman, Adine Hulot, was carrying a huge dripping umbrella, of the type commonly seen in the Vendée area. She'd asked for Chief Superintendent Maigret. [1940-JUG] The doctor asked M if he'd met Clémentine Bréjon, or Tine as she was called, Louise Naud's mother. She was a La Noue, one of the great families in the Vendée. [1943-CAD] Luçon is in the Vendée. [1949-AMI] On the few occasions M had traveled on summer vacations it had been to meet Georges Simenon at his various homes, while he was still living in France: in Alsace, at Porquerolles, in the Charentes, the Vendée, etc. And when M had gone on a semi-official tour of the US, it was mainly since he knew he'd meet him in Arizona, where he'd been living. [1950-MEM] Madeleine Lalande, the Countess von Farnheim, was born in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée. [1950-PIC] Julien Chabot told M that in the Vendée for a long time the only people who counted were the owners of châteaux, counts, viscounts, anyone with a "de" in his name. [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] The newpaper reported that a reporter had gone to the Hôtel des Roches-Noires in Les Sables-d'Olonne, but no trace of M had been found. Janvier had said as far as he knew M was still in the Vendée. [1956-AMU] Léonard Planchon's wife, Renée Planchon, came from Saint-Sauveur, near Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée, Planchon's mother's town. [1962-CLI] Gassin de Beaulieu had retired to his château in Vendée, in the forest of Vouvant. [1968-HES] Both M and Mme M had been bored with life in the Vendée, when they were at Luçon. [1971-SEU]
The Flea's mother sent him to one of her sisters in Saint-Mesmin-le-Vieux in the Vendée. He came back to Paris when he was 14.
[1971-IND]
Vendée Co-operative Vendée, Hôtel de Vendée River The Vendé curved in close to the road, bringing with it the broken branches from the last squalls. [1953-PEU]
Julien Chabot went for a stroll in town or along the Vendée River in the mornings. M wanted to call him to ask about Auguste Point, and had to call early in case it was a market day.
[1954-MIN]
Vendôme, Place Rue de la Paix, Place Vendôme, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré... Pietr strolled on. [1929-30-LET] The bracelet of the dead woman, Mary Lampson, bore the imprint of a jeweler in the Place Vendôme. [1930-PRO] Leaving the Ritz, M crossed the Place Vendôme, troubled by the banknotes Johann Radek had given him. [1930-31-TET] James said his wife had been at Vendôme at her sister's. [1931-GUI] Jean Bronsky was a wild beast dressed by the best tailor in the Place Vendôme. [1947-MOR] Maxime Le Bret's frock-coat came from the best tailor in the Place Vendôme. [1948-PRE] Frans Steuvels had an account in an American bank on the Place Vendôme, another in an English bank on the boulevard. [1949-MME] John Arnold and Donald Philps had gone to an American bank on the Avenue de l'Opéra, and then a British bank on Place Vendôme. [1957-VOY] Maison Harris wasn't far from the Place Vendôme. [1957-SCR] Jacques Sainval said he'd met Paulette Lachaume in a tearoom on the Rue Royale. She'd left her car in the Place Vendôme and gone shopping in the Rue Saint-Honoré. [1958-TEM] Prince Philippe de V-- had stayed in the Place Vendôme in a hotel with his family. [1960-VIE] The Ritz, in the Place Vendôme, possibly the most select hotel in Paris. [1963-FAN] Only on a couple of occasions had the jewel thieves chosen the big jewelers, on Place Vendôme and Rue de la Paix, who had alarm systems. [1965-PAT] 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] Vendre, Julien. One of Jean-Charles Gaillard's cases was Julien Vendre, housebreaking, acquittal. M rememered him. [1962-COL] Venetian.
People were leaving the Place du Tertre, the Venetian lanterns...
[1955-TEN]
Venezuela Central America. A sailor who spent a lot of time commuting to South America and Central America on cargo boats offered some information to M about Popaul, who'd used to hang out in the Bastille district. Said he'd met him in Venezuela and he'd claimed he'd killed Christine Josset. [1959-CON] Joseph Antoine, Léontine Antoine's second husband, had one son who lived in Venezuela. [1970-FOL] Venezuelan. Ed Gollan had told Norris Jonker that his Van Gogh, which he had sold to a Venezuelan in South America, was a fake. He knew the forger, who could just as easily do Manet, Renoir or Vlaminck. [1963-FAN] Vengeur.
Dr. Émile Janin, had been ship's doctor on the Vengeur, sailed on a world cruise.... Marcel Airaud had served aboard the minesweeper Vengeur.
[1940-JUG]
Venice
Three or four times a year the Maupoises took a trip to Venice, Barcelona, Florence, Naples, Greece, or elsewhere.
[1965-PAT]
Vennes Venteuil Ventimiglia-Paris. François Ricain's father came to see M. Said he'd been on duty as an engineer on the Ventimiglia-Paris train. [1966-VOL] Véran. Véran and Loubet were available to go to La Baule to bring back Louis Mahossier, according to Janvier. Véran called M from La Baule to report. [1971-SEU] Verbena. 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] Verdier, Suzanne.
One of the two girls who'd gone with Willy Marco was Suzanne Verdier, known as Suzy, born at Honfleur in 1906. First arrived in Paris four years earlier as a housemaid, then worked as a model.
[1930-PRO]
Verdun Someone said they'd seen someone caught under a tiller once at Verdun. [1930-PRO]
Émile Hugon served at Verdun and Chemin des Dames, where he got a shrapnel wound in his leg in WWI.
[1971-SEU]
Verduret Vergennes, Henri de.
Julien Chabot asked Hubert Vernoux if Henri de Vergennes was coming to play bridge. Vernoux said he'd called to say the storm had wrecked the driveway of his château and he couldn't get his car out.
[1953-PEU]
Verlaine Vermersch.
Julien Foucrier had gotten a false passport in the name Vermersch while he was in Portugal.
[1951-MEU]
Vermouillet Verne, Jules Vernoux, Alain. Doctor Alain Vernoux, tall, long nervous face, glasses, had found Gobillard's body. Hubert Vernoux's son. Refused to practice, devoted himself to "research". Had married Jeanne de Caudeuils. Three children, youngest eight months old.... 36. Left medical school at 25, and was resident at Sainte-Anne for two years. Committed suicide when his affair with Louise Sabati was revealed, by taking Veronal. [1953-PEU] Vernoux, Basile. Hubert Vernoux's brother, who killed himself at age 17. [1953-PEU] Vernoux, Hubert. Hubert Vernoux de Courçon, 67, was in the same car on the train as M on the way to Fontenay-le-Comte. A friend of Julien Chabot's. Lived in the Rue Rabelais.... Father had been a cattle dealer, grandfather a farm hand. Father bought up livestock, drove them to Paris, made a lot of money; a brute, always half-drunk. Hubert married Robert de Courçon's eldest daughter Isabelle Vernoux, and called himself Vernoux de Courçon. Was essentially a real estate dealer. Lucile de Courçon, his wife's elder sister, lived with them. Alain Vernoux was his son. [1953-PEU] Vernoux, Isabelle. Hubert Vernoux's wife, about 60, hair still brown, dark-ringed eyes. [1953-PEU] Vernoux, Jeanne. Alain Vernoux's wife. Somewhat ordinary, rather dumpy. née:, Jeanne de Caudeuils. [1953-PEU] Veronal.
[Veronal, tradename for barbital, a barbituate compound used as a hypnotic.] In the niche behind the picture in Else Anderson's room M found an automatic loaded with six bullets, a box of cartridges, a key, and a tube of Veronal. She said she'd bought the Veronal as she slept badly. [1931-NUI] Geneviève Naud was lying across her bed, a vial of Veronal lying broken on the carpet where she had dropped it. [1943-CAD] Anna Bebelmans committed suicide by swallowing Veronal; an empty tube was found on the cabin floor. [1949-AMI] An empty tube of Veronal was found in Louise Sabati's room. Alain Vernoux was dead, but she had gotten sick, and hadn't died. [1953-PEU] Dupeu said woman of that sort usually killed themselves with Veronal. [1953-TRO] Véronique Fabre. see: Fabre, Véronique Véronique Lachaume.
see: Lachaume, Véronique
Verrerie, Rue de la
The man [Victor Poliensky] kept on drinking, moving around a kind of center, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, Rue des Écouffes, and the Rue de la Verrerie.
[1947-MOR]
Versailles Johann Radek said that Bob, the barman at the Coupole, had a fine house in Versailles, and a fancy car, an income of 4-500,000 francs a year.... from tips. [1930-31-TET] Émile Ducrau's son-in-law was a captain in the Infantry at Versailles. [1933-ECL] Judge Forlacroix offered M an Armagnac, which he said an old friend, who had been the Public Prosecutor in Versailles, sent him from his estate in the Gers region.... Judge Forlacroix said it was on his daughter's account that he'd left Versailles.... M got off the train at Versailles, and strolled down Avenue de Paris. [1940-JUG] Bernadette Amorelle said she'd come from Orsenne, in the same way a queen of France might have said Versailles. [1945-FAC] The weather was superb, as if especially for the king who would soon be escorted to Versailles. [1948-PRE] Inspectors from as far away as Versailles had been mobilized for the trap. [1955-TEN] The magistrate, Urbain de Chézaud, had previously been at Versailles. [1960-VIE] Philippe de Lancieux was sent to a Catholic school in Montmorency. He ran away at 14, and was found two days later in Le Havre. He was moved to another near Versailles. [1961-BRA] François Paré, in his early 50s, was head of a Department in the Ministry of Public Works, Inland Waterways. He lived in Versailles. [1968-ENF]
The men in the Citroën had taken the road to Versailles, and went through Petit-Clamart, hardly slackening speed.
[1969-TUE]
Versailles, Avenue de
The decorator who came to see M to report that he'd been at the Adrien Josset house said his partner had been on a job in the Avenue de Versailles.
[1959-CON]
Versailles, Palace of Versailles, Porte de François Paré dined alone at a restaurant at the Porte de Versailles after finding that Joséphine Papet wasn't at home. [1968-ENF] Vertbois, Jean.
The young couple had filled out a form, Jean Vertbois, 20, advertising agent, and Mme, 18 Rue des Acacias, Paris, on their way to Nice.
[1937-38-noy]
Vert-Galant, Place du Once a week in summer, once a fortnight in winter, on Monday afternoons, Fernande Steuvals did her laundry on a laundry boat in the Seine, at Place du Vert-Galant, just below Pont-Neuf. [1949-MME]
Georges Sim invited M to the christening of his boat, the Ostrogoth, by the Curé of Notre-Dame at the Square of the Vert-Galant.
[1950-MEM]
Verviers
M found the Rue Haute-Sauvenière, a steep, very busy street, and asked for Roger Morcel's, the tailor. The tailor said it was imitation English cloth, made in Verviers.
[1930-31-PHO]
Vésigneul Vésinet, Le Vesle, Rue de Vevey The police chief's father was a wine grower in the vicinity of Vevey. [1957-VOY] VH V--, Hubert de. Hubert de. Prince Hubert de V-- had once been a staff officer at the cavalry school of Saumur. Every morning he rode in the Bois de Boulogne. Last week he'd been thrown from his horse, died at 80.... It was the day of the funeral of the Prince Hubert de V--.... One could not, for a question of love, let a name die out which, for the past 5 centuries, had been found on every page of the history of France. [1960-VIE] VI VIA VIC VID VIE VIG VIL VIN VIO VIR VIS VIT VIV Vial. Beside the door of one of the apartments was a brass plate, Mlle Vial. Corsets. [1968-ENF] Viaud, Louis. Justin Minard had tried to get in to the house at 17a Rue Chaptal, but a man named Louis Viaud, a butler, threw him out.... Louis Viaud was tall and well-built, probably about 45, his shaven chin blueish, the pupils of his eyes very dark, his black eyebrows abnormally thick. [1948-PRE] Vicente Alvaredo. see: Alvaredo, Vicente Vice Squad. Leroy had got hold of a friend who'd been a sergeant in the Vice Squad back then and had known Jean Servières. [1931-JAU] The Préfecture was deserted, a few comings and goings in the Vice Squad.... Lucas said sometimes Else Anderson reminded him of the time he spent in the Vice Squad. [1931-NUI] M threatened Jean that he'd call the Vice Squad to find Gigi if he didn't tell him. [1939-MAJ] M sent Dubonnet to the Vice Squad to look up all the Nines he could find. He was young, just out of training school, somewhat stiff, always very dapper, very polite.... M found the inspector in charge of the Vice Squad to borrow a plain-clothes man familiar with the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile and the Rue des Rosiers neighborhood.... As M spoke, Serge Madok was being picked up by the Vice Squad in a brothel in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, a filthy place frequented by Arabs. [1947-MOR] Alfonsi had been attached to the Police Judiciaire, but not M's department. For a few years had been in Vice Squad. [1949-MME] M had been in the Vice Squad, known today as the Morals Squad. For only a few months. M had been in charge of the Sébastopol district, which, particularly in the Les Halles area, was frequented by the lowest class of women. There young servant girls of sixteen, newly arrived from Brittany, served their apprenticeship. The women started to call him Jules. Some would simply have locked them up and had them sent to Saint-Lazare, but he tried to ignore them.... Montmartre was teeming with black musicians; rich middle-aged ladies let themselves be robbed by Argentine gigolos; the Vice Squad was overwhelmed by orgiastic parties in the Bois de Boulogne. [1950-MEM] M had passed through almost all the departments, highway, railway stations, department stores, and much to his disgust, Vice Squad, but had never had anything to do with race tracks. [1951-LOG] Thérèse said Inspector Priollet would vouch that she hadn't taken the pocketbook, it was her friend Lucille. M remembered being called in to the office of the head of the "mondaine" section, the Vice Squad, and seeing the dark, touseled-haired girl, dabbing at her eyes. [1953-ECO] Five detectives, some of whom belonged to the Vice Squad, the part known as the Society Section, were among the crowd in the courtroom.... M said the Vice Squad had had to get after Léontine Faverges to stop using her apartment as a place of assignation. [1959-ASS] Jules Raison suggested that M check with his colleague in the Vice Squad about Émile Boulay's business, as he was in Montmartre every night.... M got a call from Lecoin, Chief of the Vice Squad, while he was home eating lunch. [1962-COL] M searched for a colleague in the Social Division, a euphemism for the Vice Squad, to listen to Antoine Batille's tapes. [1969-TUE] Mme. Blanche said she wasn't bothered by the Vice Squad, as hers was a respectable establishment. [1969-VIN] M had gotten a photo of Le Grand Marcel from the Vice Squad. [1970-FOL] Vichy. Marcel Moncin had finished the Vichy water bottle. [1955-TEN]
Inspector Louis invariably drank Vichy.
[1971-IND]
Vichy The road was lined with hoardings advertising Vichy, Deauville, big hotels or brands of petrol. [1931-NUI] Countess Panetti lived all over - Paris, Cannes, Egypt, Vichy... [1949-MME] The manager of the Clou Doré, Jean-Loup Pernelle, was also the head waiter. Born in Allier, he'd started as a waiter in Vichy. [1965-PAT] Dr Pardon suggested a vacation. M considered Meung-sur-Loire, but Pardon wanted him to go to Vichy.... This was their fifth day in Vichy, though it felt as if they'd been there forever. [1967-VIC] Vicomte.
A discreet homosexual. For the past 15 years he had 'covered' the Quai des Orfèvres for a Paris newspaper, a press agency, and some twenty provincial dailies. In appearance he was the last of the Boulevard dandies, dressed with Edwardian elegance, a monocle on a black ribbon around his neck.
[1955-COR]
Victoire, Place de la Victoire, Rue de la Bonfils told M there'd been another car stolen on the Rue de la Victoire. He said the car found on the Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre had had fresh mud on it, like it had been in the country. [1951-LOG]
Monique Thouret's boyfriend, Albert Jorisse, lived with his parents on Avenue de Châtillon, opposite the church of Montrouge. Father worked for a wholesaler of fabrics in the Rue de Victoire.
[1952-BAN]
Victoires, Place des Delval, tenant on the ground floor in Jeanne Debul's building, were importers with offices on Place des Victoires. [1952-REV] M knew that Joseph Mascoulin lunched everyday at a restaurant in Place des Victoires called "Filet de Sole". [1954-MIN] They went to the Place des Victoires, a restaurant where M liked the quiet terrace. [1956-AMU]
Mme and M went to a restaurant in the Place des Victoires, wehre they liked the food and atmosphere. The waiter said it was still too cold to eat on the terrace. They had sweetbreads, followed by tiny lamb cutlets, ended with a strawberry tart.
[1970-FOL]
Victoires, Rue des Victor. Victor, the waiter at the Gai-Moulin was involved with Génaro in a spy ring. Looked like a model for a cartoonist's version of a waiter: drooping features, large red-rimmed eyes, a bald head with thin graying hair... [1931-GAI] The manservant's name was Victor, and he'd been an N.C.O. in the artillery. [1937-38-bay]
Some at the inn behind M said "Victor, I know you're a thief. But we did our military service together at Montepllier..."
[1953-ECO]
Victor Victor Ancelin. see: Ancelin, Victor Victor Bréjon. see: Bréjon, Victor Victor Cadet. see: Cadet, Victor Victor Gadelle. see: Gadelle, Victor Victor Gaillard.
see: Gaillard, Victor
Victor-Hugo, Avenue When M met Beetje Liewens in Paris three years later she was married with two children, lived at 28, Avenue Victor-Hugo. [1931-HOL]
There's been another jewel robbery that morning, on the Avenue Victor-Hugo.
[1964-DEF]
Victor-Hugo, Boulevard Victoria, Avenue Victoria Hotel Victorian. There was something Edwardian, if not Victorian, about Léontine Antoine's apartment. [1970-FOL] Victoria Station. Alain Lagrange checked into the Gilmore Hotel, opposite Victoria Station, when he got to London. [1952-REV] Victorine Heurtin. see: Heurtin, Victorine Victor Krulak. see: Krulak, Victor Victor Lamotte. see: Lamotte, Victor Victor Macoulet.
see: Macoulet, Victor
Victor-Massé, Rue M said he knew Dédé had stopped for a while in the Rue Victor-Massé. [1948-PRE] M got a call from Police-Secours [le central de Police-Secours] that a Countess von Farnheim had been found strangled in Rue Victor-Massé. It was only 550 yards from Picratt's to Arlette's, about the same from Rue Victor-Massé.... Philippe Mortemart said he'd met the Countess in a little bar on the Rue Victor-Massé. [1950-PIC] Nicolas Cajou, manager of a small hotel on Rue Victor-Massé, around the corner from Place Pigalle, recognized Ginette Meurant's photo. He'd been convalescing in Morvan, where his family came from. [1959-ASS] The Train Bleu was practically next door, in the Rue Victor-Massé.... Émile Boulay lived three houses further down the street. [1962-COL] The Flea had worked in the brasserie on the Rue Victor-Massé where the underworld gang bosses hung out.... When Maurice Marcia wasn't at the races, he could be found playing cards in a bistro on the Rue Victor-Massé. [1971-IND] Victor Poliensky. see: Poliensky, Victor Victor Ricou.
see: Ricou, Victor
Victor's Victor Sidon. see: Sidon, Victor Vidier, Jean.
Jean Vidier, the chief clerk, was 28.
[1937-38-not]
Vidocq Vie à la Campagne, La. see: La Vie à la Campagne Vie à la Campagne, La. see: La Vie à la Campagne M found magazines on the shelf at the villa; Farms and Castles, Country Life, The Connoisseur. [Fermes et Châteaux, La Vie à la campagne, Connaissance des Arts]. [1971-IND] Vie de Château, La.
see: La Vie de Château
Vieille-du-Temple, Rue The man who bought the top-hat drove off towards the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, where he stopped at a second-hand shop. Then the Champs-Élysées, then Avenue de Wagram. [1931-GUI]
Shortly before 6 o'clock they were again at the corner of the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile and the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, in an almost medieval setting. The man [Victor Poliensky] went about ten yards, when a shot rang out, and he fell dead.... Two police cars had drawn up at the Rue de Rivoli, at the corner of Rue Vieille-du-Temple.
[1947-MOR]
Vienna Samuel Meyer had had a network of agents in Vienna, Bucharest , Warsaw, all over. [1932-FOU] M made a call to Vienna, and wrote a telegram to Warsaw, as one passenger was a woman from Vilna named Irvitch. [1936-arr] M knew that this case would provide the subject for long studies in the criminal archives, not only of Paris, but also of London, Berlin, Vienna, even New York. [1936-lar] The interrogation of the Commodore lasted 18 hours, punctuated by calls to Scotland Yard, Amsterdam, Basel, and even Vienna. [1946-mal] The dossier said that Jean Bronsky, 35, had been born in Prague, studied at the University of Vienna. [1947-MOR] Georges Sim asked M if he'd read Hans Gross, whom he'd never heard of. Later he learned he was an Austrian Examining Magistrate, who, in the 1880s, held the first chair of scientific criminology at the University of Vienna. [1950-MEM] Viennese. They stopped in a brasserie where a Viennese orchestra was playing. [1930-31-PHO] M could see Conrad Popinga switching his radio from Parisian jazz to Hungarian Gypsey music or Viennese musical comedies, or even picking up a message in Morse. [1931-HOL] The orchestra struck up a Viennese waltz in the Café de Paris. [1932-FIA] The woman who'd been arguing in the next suite was a famous Viennese movie actress. [1938-owe] M had had a paragraph inserted into the newspapers, saying that a park-keeper in the Bois de Boulogne had found the body of Ernest Borms, well-know Viennese doctor, on the walks not far from the Porte de Bagatelle. He'd been living in Neuilly for some years. [1939-hom]
All through a Viennese waltz Justin Minard kept winking at M to reassure him.
[1948-PRE]
Viennese lamplighter Vie Parisienne. see: La Vie Parisienne Vie Parisienne, La. see: La Vie Parisienne Vie Parisienne, La. see: La Vie Parisienne M saw a figure silhouetted on the staircase which might have come straight from the cover of La Vie Parisienne. Félicien Gendreau was wearing a dress suit, a cloak and an opera hat. He was thin and old, his trim mustache with its turned up points was obviously dyed. [1948-PRE] Vie Parisienne, La. see: La Vie Parisienne The was a naked girl on a calendar in the Penguin Bar, like a Vie Parisienne centerfold. [1949-CHE] Vie Parisienne, La.
see: La Vie Parisienne
In 1900 Norris Jonker would have been much sought after as a model for drawings in La Vie Parisienne.
[1963-FAN]
Viète, Place [Fontenay] Vieux Calvados Vieux-Four Passage
Ascan, M and Torrence arrived at Les Halles, Rue de la Grande-Truanderie, where they turned into a little passage, Vieux-Four Passage, so narrow a truck would not have squeezed through.
[1971-SEU]
Vieux Garçon
M called home and asked his wife for the time of the trains to Morsang. It was on the banks of the Seine, a few miles upstream from Corbeil. There was an old inn there, the Vieux Garçon, where, for over 20 years, they had sometimes gone to spend Sundays. M had discovered it during the course of an investigation, standing all by itself on the riverbank. He found, looking through some old books, that it had been frequented in the past by Balzac and Alexandre Dumas, and later on, literary luncheon parties brought together by the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Zola, Alphonse Daudet and others.
[1962-COL]
Vieux Normand, Le Vieux Port Vignolet, Eugénie. Martin Vignolet's wife, Eugénie was the cook. [1936-lun] Vignolet, Martin. Martin Vignolet, the chauffeur and valet, answered the door. 45-50, prominent bones and thick hair, obviously of peasant origin. [1936-lun] Vignon, François.
François Vignon lived on the first floor left at Aline's. Insurance company, married, two children, youngest a few months old.
[1965-PAT]
Vigny, Alfred de Villa Albert Premier. Judge Forlacroix called Dr. Brénéol to ask about a good nursing home around La Roche-sur-Yon. He recommended the Villa Albert Premier, just before you get to town. [1940-JUG] Villa des Fleurs. Adèle Noirhomme asked Gaston Buzier about his 'little thing' at the Villa des Fleurs. [1931-REN] Villa des Roches-Grises. see: Roches-Grises, Villa des Villa Marie-Thérèse.
Philippe Jave and his wife, daughter and the child's nurse, Mlle. Claire Jusserand, left for a six-weeks stay in Cannes, where they'd rented the Villa Marie-Thérèse.
[1956-AMU]
Villaret-de-Joyeuse, Rue Villecomtois Ville-d'Avray
Though Prof. Tissot had an apartment in Paris, he went nearly every evening to his country house at Ville-d'Avray.
[1955-TEN]
Villefranche M read in the paper of a King travelling incognito, arrived at Villefranche, and went to his estate in Cap-Ferrat. [1932-LIB]
Lucas had checked with most of the big hotels at Cannes, Nice, Antibes, and Villefranche, but Countess Panetti hadn't been seen.
[1949-MME]
Villefranche-en-Dordogne Ville, Hôtel de.
see: Hôtel de Ville
Villejuif It was not until they were passing Villejuif that James said he wondered where they'd play bridge the next day. [1931-GUI] They went through Corbeil, Juvisy, Villejuif, passed the week-enders' cars coming back to Paris. [1933-ECL] Richard Gendreau-Balthazar said the man [Justin Minard] was a drunk, if he wasn't a lunatic escaped from Villejuif. [1948-PRE]
Omer Calas had gone to a private clinic at Villejuif, a religious establishment, staffed by nuns, for his appendectomy.
[1955-COR]
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges M. Jacob's daughter had had her first baby and taken him to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to a wet nurse, so it was just three years ago that Éléonore Boursang had first come to M. Jacob. [1930-GAL] Joseph Heurtin had stopped at a soup kitchen on the Rue Réaumur. He went on to Charenton, then Alfortville, then the road to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. [1930-31-TET] M continued to follow Marcel Basso, now with his wife and 10-year-old son, first toward Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, then the Corbeil road. [1931-GUI]
Désiré Campois had worked for a building contractor in the Vaugirard district, finally a contractor at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, where he met Amorelle.
[1945-FAC]
Villersexel, Rue de
Maître Aubonnet, Rue de Villersexel, was Armand de Saint-Hilaire's solicitor.
[1960-VIE]
Villette Villette, La Villette, Porte de Villiers
Maurice Tremblet always took the métro from Villiers station to go to work.
[1946-pau]
Villiers, Avenue de
After shooting Oscar Chabut, Gilbert Pigou had run towards the métro at the Avenue de Villiers.... It was no distance at all to the police station on the Avenue de Villers from Rue Fortuny.
[1969-VIN]
Villiers, Avenue des
Where Louis Mahossier's father-in-law, a notary, lived.
[1971-SEU]
Villon
Vilna M made a call to Vienna, and wrote a telegram to Warsaw, as one passenger was a woman from Vilna named Irvitch. [1936-arr]
Olga Tserewska, 28 from Vilna, was one of the gang who had filled in the forms, their passports in order. Actually, Stéphanie Polintskaïa, Stan the Killer.
[1937-38-sta]
Viloli, Rue de Vincennes Mme. Leroy said her husband had been a professional army officer, but her son, Joseph Leroy, corrected her, that he was a Sergeant-major, in the Commissariat, at Vincennes. [1945-pip] M told Lucas to have Torrence and Janvier pay special attention to Vincennes.... M had Mme M phone the Pari-Mutuel-Urbain to see if there had been any racing in the Paris area on Tuesday. There'd been a race at Vincennes. [1947-MOR]
On Sundays Manuel Palmari closed his shop and went to Auteuil, Longchamps, or Vincennes for the races, according to the season.
[1964-DEF]
Vinchon, Paul Vinchon, Popaul.
Popaul Vinchon was Paul Vinchon, M's nephew, who was an inspector on the Belgian frontier.
[1936-arr]
Vin des Moines Vintimille Vintimille, Place de Raymond told M that a girl's body had been found in the Place de Vintimille. The men from the Second district were probably already there. [1954-JEU] violets.
Why was there a basket, and why was the air full of the scent of violets? He saw an old flower girl...
[1948-PRE]
Vire Vireveau.
Mme. Vireveau rented the other bedroom at Les Iris. She was a widow from Paris, Rue Lamarck. Overbearing, about 60, came to Vichy every year to lose weight.... Mme. Vireveau had come to Hélène Lange's at the recommendation of a friend from Montmartre.
[1967-VIC]
Virginia Virgin Mary. There was a figure of the Virgin Mary in a glass case, a crucifix... at Jeanne's house. [1943-CAD] Virieu. 35. Friend of Christine Josset's, owned a small drug company. She put money into it and made Adrien Josset the head of it. Virieu spent his life flitting between Fouquet's, Maxim's, and the casino at Deauville. [1959-CON] Vireu, one of the boys arrested in the armed robbery, said there'd been three of them. He refused to name the third, but said he was 23 and married. [1959-ASS] V--, Isabelle de.
The letters in Armand de Saint-Hilaire's study were from Princess Isabelle de V--, signed Isi. The letters dated from 1914. She was 71-72, 5 or 6 years younger than Saint-Hilaire. She married the Prince Hubert de V-- in 1912.
[1960-VIE]
Vitry-aux-Loges Vitry-le-François The lock-keeper told M the Providence was probably near Vitry-le-François.... The lock-keeper at Pogny, Désiré, told M he proably wouldn't catch up with the Providence till Vitry-le-François. The lock-keeper at Dizy had joked that when it was fine everywhere else, it would be sure to be raining at Dizy and Vitry-le-François. [1930-PRO] Prosper Donge said he'd been a foster child, lived till he was 15 on a farm in Vitry-le-François.... Bonneau told M that when Prosper Donge was 16, as a dishwasher in Vitry-le-François, he'd stolen 50 francs from the till and caught a train to Lyons. [1939-MAJ] Vittel.
M ordered minieral water, preferably Vittel.
[1932-LIB]
Vittel Vittorio Petrini. see: Petrini, Vittorio Viviane. The girl at Mlle. Irène's, Viviane, was no more than 18. [1954-JEU] Viviane La Pommeraye. see: La Pommeraye, Viviane Vivien, Gabrielle. Marcel Vivien's wife, grey hair, thin, hard-featured; used to be plump. Still lived at 67 Rue Caulaincourt, on the 4th floor. Had moved from a larger apartment on another floor when Vivien left. Dressmaker. [1971-SEU] Vivien, Marcel. The tramp known as "The Dandy," or "The Mute," found dead, shot several times in the chest and stomach, probably with a 32, in an abandoned house at Les Halles, Vieux-Four Passage. His clothes were those of a tramp, elderly, with long silvery hair shot through with bluish highlights. His eyes were blue. White moustache, slightly turned up at the ends, short white Van Dyke beard. Otherwise he was close shaven, and his nails were manicured; tall and exceptionally broad-shouldered. According to Dr. Lagodinec, who did the autopsy, he was 55 or younger. Had a scar on his scalp about 3 inches long. According to Émile Hugon, he'd rented the workshop overlooking the courtyard under his apartment, soon after WWII in 1945. Vivien had been about 35 at the time, tall, athletic, a cabinetmaker. Intelligent open face, had had a course at the School of Arts and Crafts. He'd been clean-shaven at the time. A pot of geraniums had fallen on his head one day, knocked over by Mlle Blanche on the 3rd floor, thus the 3-inch scar. Married to Gabrielle Vivien, a woman of about the same age, with a daughter, Odette Delaveau, 7 or 8 at the time, who came to visit him on her way home from school. Around the end of 1945 or early 1946 he had failed to show up one day. His wife still lived in the neighborhood, sometimes came to Rue Lepicto buy vegetables. He had left his family for his girlfriend, Nina Lassave, whom he'd strangled when he discovered she'd be unfaithful with Louis Mahossier. [1971-SEU] Vivier. Stomatologist. Lived almost next door to Dr Pardon on the Boulevard Voltaire. An old friend of Pardon's he hadn't seen in years... Pardon had vaguely thought of marrying his sister when he was 18. He knew François Mélan. [1964-DEF] VJ V--, Julien de. Isabelle de V-- wrote that Julien, Prince Hubert de V--'s brother, had been killed in Argonne at the head of his regiment in 1915.... Old Joseph interrupted M to tell him that Julien de V--, Isabelle de V--'s grandson, was there. [1960-VIE] VL Vladimir.
The seaman from the yacht, Vladimir, came into the Café de la Marine.... Vladimir had been a cadet in the Russian navy. Served in Wrangel's fleet.
[1930-PRO]
Vlaminck VO VOC VOI VOL VON VOR VOS VOU VOY vocabulary. see The Size of Simenon's Vocabulary by Stephen Trussel Voisin. According to Dr. Voisin, Léonard Lachaume's death took place at about 2:00 am. [1958-TEM] Voivin, Ferdinand. Louise Voivin had lived with her husband, Ferdinand Voivin, 37, a dealer in precious stones, and her sister Nicole Lamure, 18. [1936-bea] Voivin, Louise.
The previous Sunday, on the fourth floor of an apartment house in the Boulevard Beaumarchais, where the ground floor was a pipe manufacturer, Louise Voivin, 26, had died suddenly, apparently poisoned. They'd been married 8 years. Voivin had met her in Orléans, where her parents ran a shoe shop. Nicole Lamure had been 10.
[1936-bea]
Voltaire Clémentine Bréjon had the grimacing look one sees on busts of Voltaire. [1943-CAD] The Judge said Erasmus had needed little sleep, as had Voltaire, and he himself. [1946-cho] Josette Fay was sitting in a Voltaire chair. Said her father had been in the wars of 1970 and 1914. [1965-PAT] M remembered Voltaire's "hideous smile" from his school days. [1966-NAH] Voltaire.
Dr. Martin had told Mme. Parendon of Voltaire, who... when she wondered if her husband would live long.
[1968-HES]
Voltaire Voltaire, Boulevard Endless detours were made till they reached the Boulevard Voltaire, and then the Place de la République, and then the man [Victor Poliensky] knew where he was again. [1947-MOR] M took Germaine Baboeuf to a boarding house a few houses before the Boulevard Voltaire. He got her No. 18, second floor on the left. [1948-PRE] M got out of the bus on the corner of Boulevard Voltaire and walked home; he had to unlock the door with his own key. [1949-MME] Torrence called from Saint-Ouen, to say he'd found the driver who'd picked up Loraine Martin at the juncture of the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir and the Boulevard #Voltaire. [1950-noe] M had to walk right to the Boulevard Voltaire to get a taxi. The Rue Saint-Jacques was almost deserted, with lights on only in a few bars. He hurried through the main entrance into Cochin. [1951-MEU] Dr Pardon's house was on the Boulevard Voltaire, only 5 minutes walk from M's house. [1952-REV] Arlette had called Marco for Mariette Gibon from a restaurant on the Boulevard Voltaire, to tell him not to come to the house till she told him it was clear. Left a message for him with Félix, a waiter in Le Poker d'As, a bar in Rue de Douai. [1952-BAN] M didn't find a taxi till the corner of the Boulevard Voltaire.... The manager of the Grelot said that Louis, the accordionist and conductor, knew Pierre Eyraud best. He was dark and handsome, about 30, Spanish-style whiskers. Lived on the Boulevard Voltaire. [1953-TRO] Doctor Granvalet in the Boulevard Voltaire had done the appendectomy on Omer Calas 5 or 6 years earlier. [1955-COR] It was near 9:00 when M reached the Boulevard Voltaire, where a car was waiting for him. It looked like one tourists hired by the day from a garage near the Madeleine or the Opéra. [1955-TEN] Ferdinand Fumal asked M if he'd heard of United Butchers. It was an extensive chain. There was one in the Boulevard Voltaire, not far from where M lived. [1956-ECH] Instead of turning left, when he reached the Boulevard Voltaire M turned right, and rain began to fall when he reached the Place Voltaire. [1956-AMU] M waited for a bus at the corner of the Boulevard Voltaire, disappointed that the one that came had no platform. [1958-TEM] The Pardons' (Dr Pardon) new apartment on the Boulevard Voltaire. [1959-CON] Ginette Meurant went to a store on the Boulevard Voltaire and bought a cheap suitcase. [1959-ASS] Lecoin, Chief of the Vice Squad, lived on the Boulevard Voltaire, nearby. [1962-COL] Jean-Claude Ternel's father's company made copper tubing and the like. It was one of those big box buildings like you see in the Avenue de la République or the Boulevard Voltaire. [1963-FAN] Dr. Vivier lived almost next door to Dr Pardon on the Boulevard Voltaire. [1964-DEF] M waited for the bus on the corner of Boulevard Voltaire, alongside a girl in a light dress. [1965-PAT] M made a slight detour along the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, avoiding the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where he had fallen, to the Boulevard Voltaire, where the Pardons (Dr Pardon) lived. [1966-NAH] M was annoyed that a woman on the platform of the bus who kept bumping into him had come all the way to the Boulevard Voltaire neighborhood to do her shopping. [1966-VOL] Louis Pélardeau told Lecoeur he had inherited a wire drawing business near Le Havre from his father. Eventually built a plant in Rouen, then Strasbourg. Head office on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. [1967-VIC] Fernand Courcel lived in Rouen, but had a business on the Boulevard Voltaire. [1968-ENF] For the first time since they'd started dining once a month at the Pardons (Dr Pardon) , M would have an unpleasant memory of the evening on the Boulevard Voltaire. [1969-TUE] On the corner of Boulevard Voltaire M hailed a taxi to go to Bongo in the Place Maubert. [1970-FOL]
A Secretarial College named Mahossier was on the Boulevard Voltaire.
[1971-SEU]
Voltaire, Place Jussieu called M to see if he was going to dinner at Dr Pardon's that evening. When they left, he caught the métro at Place Voltaire.... M asked Lucas to check with all the night taxies near Rue Popincourt -- there was a stand on Place Voltaire -- to see if anyone picked up up François Lagrange. [1952-REV] Instead of turning left, when he reached the Boulevard Voltaire M turned right, and rain began to fall when he reached the Place Voltaire. [1956-AMU] M waited for a bus in the Place Voltaire, got one with a platform where he could smoke his pipe. [1960-VIE]
M went into an old-fashioned bar, Chez Jules, 50 yeards away and called the police of the 11th arrondissement, nearby on the Place Léon-Blum, which used to be called the Place Voltaire.
[1969-TUE]
Voltaire, Quai Mallet had a big river transport business, office on the Quai Voltaire. Had a villa on the other side of the river from the Pretty Pigeon. [1941-SIG] Maître Ballu, Bernadette Amorelle's solicitor, lived at 75 Quai Voltaire. [1945-FAC] Louise Bourges, Ferdinand Fumal's private secretary, who had a flat on the Quai Voltaire, came to say that he'd written the letters himself. [1956-ECH] Maître Barbarin, Quai Voltaire, was the Lachaume's notary. [1958-TEM] Von Kramm. The clerk at Records found a file for a Von Kramm, but he'd died at Cologne 24 years ago. [1954-JEU] Vorontsow, Sasha.
The one they called The Beard was Boris Saft, and that One-Eye was Sasha Vorontsow, actually a Russian, not a Pole.
[1937-38-sta]
Vosges Jacques, husband of Françoise, Aurore Gallet's sister, was owner of "one of the biggest tanneries in the Vosges," a county councillor. [1930-GAL] René Delfosse's father was going off to the Vosges the following week. [1931-GAI] M refused to worry about Philippe Lauer, who'd forsaken his fresh valley in the Vosges for the dreary corridors of the Police Judiciaire. [1934-MAI]
M went to Atoum's carpet shop, where cups of Turkish coffe were laid out. M reminded him of their meeting in Alsace, the Vosges.
[1939-MAJ]
Vosges, Place des The iron gates of the garden were shut, Place des Vosges deserted when M arrived. The concierge had called to report a crime at 61, Place des Vosges. Almost at the corner of the Rue de Turenne. Raymond Couchet had been found shot to death in his office. [1931-OMB] During the many years they had lived in the Place des Vosges, M had formed the habit, in summer, of undoing his dark tie as soon as he came in from the courtyard, finishing by the time he reached the first floor. The building, like all those in the square, had once been a private mansion. By the time he reached the second floor, the staircase was steep and narrow. His door was the third on the left. By the time he put his key in the lock he'd call out, it's me, and go to the dining room, with its tall window open to the dazzling light of the square with its four fountains. ... All around the public garden, which fenced in by its iron railings, is one of the most formal in Paris, stand identical houses with arcades and steeply sloping roofs.... Mme M said the blonde girl [Rita] always went into 17b [Place des Vosges], where some people who had a big American car and a chauffeur lived.... The first floor apartments in the Place des Vosges are inhabited by the wealthy middle class and by fashionable people. [1937-38-amo] Everything was shrouded in Scotch mist, and Gérard Pardon had only just realized they were near the Place de la Bastille. The driver was approaching Place des Vosges by way of Rue Saint-Antoine. [1940-CEC] Joseph Mascouvin lived at Number 21, Place des Vosges, in a little two-room apartment. [1941-SIG] M called Mme M and told her to take Joseph's car, or rather that Joseph would pick her up and take her to Les Aubrais, and she'd arrive at 6 o'clock at Quai d'Orsay. By taxi she'd be at the Place des Vosges in ten minutes. It was their former Paris home, which they'd kept. [1945-FAC] At the same time yesterday, the man [Albert Rochain] had been crossing the Place des Vosges, with its murmuring fountains.... Lucas had an endurance story as well, known as the Tale of the Crippled Blockhead: To keep watch on a small private house - at the corner of the Rue de Birague, near the Place des Vosges, he had been disguised as a paralyzed old man in a wheelchair, whom every morning a nurse pushed to the window where he stayed all day, a spreading beard, fed by a spoon. This had gone on for 10 days, at the end of which he'd practically lost the use of his legs. [see: STA]... M sent another detective to check all the little cafés around the Châtelet, the Place des Vosges, and the Bastille. [1947-MOR] M knew the district well, had once thought of living there, less than 50 yards from the Place des Vosges. Leaving the narrow Rue des Francs-Bourgeois at the corner of the square, and following the Rue de Turenne toward the Place de la République, you come first on the left to a yellow-painted bistro, then to a little restaurant, the Crémerie Salmon. Right next door was Frans Steuvels' glass-fronted studio with the sign "Art Binding". In the shop next door, Mme. Veuve Rancé ran an umbrella business. [1949-MME] M explained that when the setting of their house had been the Place des Vosges, the one on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir was being repaired, so they'd stayed in Georges Simenon's, who was off to Africa for a year, No. 21. [1950-MEM] M wanted to sit on a bench somewhere, maybe in the Place des Vosges, or the Parc Montsouri. [1956-AMU] During the months that M had spent in Place des Vosges, while the house on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir was undergoing alterations, he and Mme M had often walked in the evenings round the Île Saint-Louis.... Jean Guillot and Lucien Hardoin stopped for a drink at a café on the corner of the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, close to the Place des Vosges. [1962-CLO] Vivier gave M Mlle. Motte's address, in the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois. She'd agreed to see him. M said he knew the building, that he'd lived near there for some time, in Place des Vosges. [1964-DEF] M knew the Île Saint-Louis fairly well, since he used to live on the Place des Vosges, and at that time they often walked arm in arm around the island in the evening. [1969-TUE] Oscar Chabut lived on the Place des Vosges.... Anne-Marie Boutin said she'd met Jeanne Chabut at the Place des Vosges. [1969-VIN] Mme M told M it was in the gardens of the Place des Vosges, sitting on a bench, that he had first kissed her. [1970-FOL]
A doctor named Mahossier had his office on the Place des Vosges.
[1971-SEU]
Vouvant Voyages Duchemin Voyageurs, Hôtel des VP V--, Philippe de. Prince Philippe de V-- was Isabelle de V--'s son, about 45. He married Irène de Marchangy, and lived nearly all year round in his château at Genestoux, near Caen, where he owned a stud and several farms, five or six children.... Prince Philippe de V-- spent most of the year in Normandy, looking after his farms. [1960-VIE] VR Vraux . The lock at Vraux had only two of its sluices working. The lock-keeper thought... Mareuil-sur-Ay, Condé, near Aigny there was a dozen barges lined up... the Providence was probably at Saint-Martin, about 20 miles away. [1930-PRO]Vries, Hubert de. see: de Vries, Hubert
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