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February 13, 2019

February 13, 1903

Maigret's World is another book that the fans of Georges Simenon (February 13, 1903 to September 4, 1989) will be happy to have. The authors treat numerous themes relating to Jules Maigret. The fictional detective, hero of more than 75 books, Jules Maigret lives in a world where animals are not so noticeable.

This we read in Maigret’s World: A Reader’s Companion to Simenon’s Famous Detective
(Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel) (2017).

The volume includes a section titled "Maigret's Cats" which considers the place of animals in the fiction of Georges Simenon. There we read:

"Apart from a few flies and wasps, buzzing and sometimes stinging,...some allusions to chickens and rabbits that the Chief Inspector hated to kill in his childhood, several dogs... one or two horses...the singing of birds in the spring, a shy squirrel...Maigret's world has relatively few animals. Among them, the one most frequently mentioned is probably the cat."
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