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Le Soir magazine February 12, 2003 The Simenon Year Simenonville remembers Simenon in Paris A star never honored An immense œuvre Simenon in the Pléiade Treasures of the Simenon Collection Intimate Memoirs of a son His final residence A life of breaks and changes On the festival menu The Simenon Production They all played Maigret At the movies, 57 films

original French

Simenon in Paris Simenon arrived in Paris on December 14, 1922, at 11:00 at night... For an eternity, I ate 12 croissants every morning with my three cups of coffee... His work at that pace was able to nourish him, even in the Paris of the crazy years, where Simenon received much and learned about himself. He was a kind of public writer, a machine for pouring out prose on demand for Fayard, Ferenczi, Tallandier, under 15 pseudonyms, more than 200 books, more than 1,000 stories, whimsies for romantic magazines, and other little pieces, in addition to his "Au pont des Arches", the first Sim, written at age 16½ in Liège. From his difficult debuts in Paris, croissants and camemberts and then... money. But he was still just a poor man's Balzac, the other in gestation. He traveled much, notably by boat on the canals of western Europe, France, Belgium, and Holland... René Henoumont tr: ST 2/07

Le Soir magazine February 12, 2003 The Simenon Year Simenonville remembers Simenon in Paris A star never honored An immense œuvre Simenon in the Pléiade Treasures of the Simenon Collection Intimate Memoirs of a son His final residence A life of breaks and changes On the festival menu The Simenon Production They all played Maigret At the movies, 57 films