19 Facts About Jules Maigret

Between 1931 and 1972,75 novels and 28 short stories about Jules Maigret were published, starting with Pietr-le-Letton and concluding with Jules Maigret et Monsieur Charles.

The Jules Maigret stories have received numerous film, television and radio adaptations.

Jules Maigret is described as a large, broad-shouldered man; he is gruff but patient and fair.

In most novels, Jules Maigret is aged around 45 to 55 years.

In Monsieur Gallet, decede, which takes place in 1930, Jules Maigret is described as 45, indicating 1885 as his year of birth.

Jules Maigret began working as a police officer in Paris in his twenties.

Jules Maigret was from the village of Saint-Fiacre in the Allier Department, where his father Evariste Maigret was the bailiff for the local landowner; see Simenon's novel Maigret's Failure, about a school bully and contemporary, "Fatty" Ferdinand Fumal from the same village.

Jules Maigret wears a thick black overcoat, a bowler hat and frequently smokes a tobacco pipe.

Jules Maigret is described as tall and heavy, with broad shoulders, large hands, a thick face, thick hair, thick eyebrows and bright eyes of a "greenish gray" colour.

Jules Maigret has strongly growing facial hair and therefore shaves every morning.

Jules Maigret is described as a person with extraordinary humanity.

Madame Jules Maigret was played by Charmian Eyre, and Jules Maigret was Rupert Davies.

The cinematic potential of Jules Maigret was realized quickly: the first screen Jules Maigret was Pierre Renoir in 1932's Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother Jean Renoir; the same year brought The Yellow Dog with Abel Tarride, and Harry Baur played him in 1933's A Man's Neck, directed by Julien Duvivier.

Jules Maigret has been portrayed by French, British, Irish, Austrian, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, and Russian actors.

The series featured guest appearances by other characters from the Jules Maigret canon, including inspectors Lucas, and Janvier.

In Soviet cinema, apart from Boris Tenin, Jules Maigret was portrayed by cinema actors Vladimir Samoilov and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

In Japan, Kinya Aikawa played Megure, a Japanese-born equivalent to the French Jules Maigret, reinvented in a modern Japanese setting, in Tokyo.

Jacques Blondeau adapted the novels into the comic series Jules Maigret, published in Samedi Soir and Paris Journal.

Between 1992 and 1997 the series Jules Maigret inspired five albums, drawn by Philippe Wurm and Frank Brichau.