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Jules Maigret, the Paris detective with a pipe but no pretense

  • Written by Véronique Duché, A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, University of Melbourne
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In this series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen.

When I first heard that Rowan Atkinson was to put on Maigret’s velvet-collared overcoat, I wondered if it was une farce. Johnny English in the role of Paris’s best-known detective, a bulky, stocky and rather taciturn policeman! What a terrible...

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