The bells of Bicêtre

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The Bells of Bicêtre ( Les Anneaux de Bicêtre ) is a 1963 novel by Georges Simenon .

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The Parisian publisher René Maugras is admitted to the Bicêtre hospital after a brain embolism . The 54-year-old is paralyzed on one side and no longer able to speak. The young nurse Blanche takes his case to heart and works carefully and precisely on his recovery in order to gradually bring him back from death to life. From his hospital bed he hears and perceives his surroundings, which he no longer considers capable of doing. In internal monologues, Maugras is thrown back on himself. With the help of Blanche, with whom he secretly falls in love, Maugras slowly finds his way back to his language ...

The novel was published in France in 1963 and in Germany in 1964.

In 1976 the novel was filmed in France as Les Anneaux de Bicêtre ( Between Death and Life ) with Michel Bouquet (Maugras) and Claude Jade (Blanche).