Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover

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Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover (original title Mademoiselle Berthe et son amant ) is a story by Georges Simenon , in which Commissioner Maigret XXXX determined. The work belonging to the series of Maigret novels and stories was written either in the winter of 1937–1938 in Neuilly or in March 1938 in Porquerolles . The story was preprinted on April 29, 1938 in Police-Film magazine . A revised version was published in 1942 in the magazine Le Jury under the title Les silences de Maigret .

In book form, the story was first published in the book Les Nouvelles Enquêtes de Maigret by Gallimard in 1944 . It was first published in German by Hansjürgen Wille and Barbara Klau by Kiepenheuer and Witsch ( Fräulein Berthe and her lover ) and finally in 1987 by Diogenes Verlag in a new translation and title ( Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover ) by Angelika Essig in the anthology Six New Cases for Maigret .

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Rue Caulaincourt, Montmartre

Maigret now lives in his retirement home in Meung-sur-Loire . One day he receives a letter from a certain Berthe, the 28-year-old niece of his former colleague Lucas. The young seamstress asks Maigret for help; Her lover, a burglar wanted by the police, who is said to have shot a police officer while attempting to arrest her, threatens her, and a. with letters. The young woman lives on Rue de Caulaincourt in the Montmartre district of Paris . Since Maigret finds the woman very sympathetic, he accepts her requests for help and settles in a small hotel across from her apartment and watches her day and night. He soon realizes that Berthe is not only pretty and scared, but also very sophisticated. One day he watches her drop an envelope in a mailbox. He finds out that Berthe himself wrote the alleged threatening letters from Albert. Maigret's research reveals that Berthe is hiding her lover in her apartment on Rue Caulaincourt. Despite this game of hide and seek, Maigret believes in the innocence of the man that he did not commit any murder despite being involved in a burglary .

Berthe's mysterious attacker is none other than a member of the burglar gang who tried to get to the button Albert ripped off while defending his lover. Maigret gets the stolen money back and arranges that the police bring the amount back without Berthe and Albert noticing. He advises them to leave Paris and settle elsewhere. The young couple moves to Brussels.

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  • Mademoiselle Berthe et son amant . In: Police-Film, 29 avril 1938 (first published)
  • Miss Berthe and her lover . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 1976
  • Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover . Zurich, Diogenes 1987
  • Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover . In: Commissioner Maigret and the women. Detective novels. From the French by Hainer Kober, Renate Nickel and Elfriede Riegler. Berlin. Publishing house Volk und Welt. 1987. ISBN 3-353-00200-6
  • Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover . In: Five cases for Maigret Diogenes 2009. ISBN 9783257802597
  • It is also available in German translation in the anthology Complete Maigret Stories ( ISBN 978-3-257-06682-1 ) published by Diogenes in 2009 .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ http://www.association-jacques-riviere-alain-fournier.com/reperage/simenon/notice_maigret/note_maigret_Mademoiselle%20Berthe%20et%20son.htm
  2. ↑ published in Brussels by A. Beirnaerdt, n ° 38, coupled with Simenon's story Stan the Killer