The affair on the Boulevard Beaumarchais
The affair of the Boulevard Beaumarchais (original title L'Affaire du boulevard Beaumarchais ) is a story by Georges Simenon , in which Commissioner Maigret is investigating a poisoning. The work, which belongs to the series of Maigret novels and stories, was one of Simenon's first Maigret stories. It was created in October 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and appeared in 1944 in the anthology Les nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret by Gallimard . It was published in a German translation by Hansjürgen Wille and Barbara Klau in 1976 under the title Die Affäre vom Boulevard Beaumarchais by Kiepenheuer and Witsch , and in a new translation by Elfriede Riegler in 1987 by Diogenes in the anthology Six New Cases for Maigret .
action
Since that morning, Commissioner Maigret has been interrogating a young woman named Nicole Lamure in his office on the Quai des Orfèvres . After her father's death, Nicole lived with her sister Louise, who is married to a fashion designer named Ferdinand Voivin. The three live in a spacious apartment on Boulevard Beaumarchais . After a few years, a love relationship developed between Nicole and her brother-in-law. Louise soon discovered that she had been cheated on and spied on the lovers. Ferdinand found himself in a desperate situation, unable to leave Louise and no longer able to Nicole. In the meantime, the sisters no longer speak to each other and only communicate with each other by letter. Both Louise and Nicole refuse to leave their shared domicile; Louise doesn't leave her sister alone with her husband, so they have to meet in a hotel. Louise is found dead on a Sunday evening with signs of poisoning. Maigret soon found out that Ferdinand - despite his intentions to kill - could not be to blame. He'd bought the poison, but hid it in a bicarbonate bottle so Louise wouldn't see his intentions.
expenditure
The story was preprinted in Paris-Soir- Dimanche (supplément, n ° 44) in the October 24 and November 1, 1936 editions. It was published in book form in Les nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret (Paris, Gallimard, NRF, 1944). An English-French edition under the title Maigret enquête was published in London by George G. Harrap in 1959. The story was also included in the work editions Œuvres complètes (Lausanne, Editions Rencontre, 1967–1973) in Volume IX, in Tout Simenon (Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1988–1993) in Volume 24 and in Tout Simenon (Paris, Omnibus, 2002–2004) included in volume 24.