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LA LAB LAC LAD LAE LAF LAG LAI LAJ LAK LAL LAM LAN LAP LAR LAS LAT LAU LAV LAW LAY LAZ Lab . "I'll be upstairs in the lab." M climbed slowly to the top floor of the Palais de Justice, where he found Moers poring over his testtubes. [1955-COR]La Babette. La Popine told M she'd said to La Babette that she'd recognized him. [1947-VAC] Labat, Maurice.
Maurice Labat started to enter the Filet de Sole, but left as soon as he noticed M. For 10 years he'd been working in a department on the Rue des Saussaies, but had apparently been forced to resign. Had a wife, children, and a mistress in an apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu., who was 20 years younger than he was. Barely 36, Corsican, small and slender, wore high-heeled shoes and had a brown mustache like two commas.
[1954-MIN]
La Baule René Josselin and his wife had just come back from La Baule last week. They had a villa there they'd bought when Véronique Fabre was still a child. [1961-BRA] Jacqueline Rousselet had met her husband at La Baule, where they'd gone every year. [1962-CLO] The proprieter of the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs also owned a hotel in La Baule. [1967-VIC] Apparently Léontine Antoine and Joseph Antoine had been great travelers. They'd visited Quimper, La Baule, Arcachon, and Biarritz. They'd toured the Massif Central, and spent summers on the Riviera. [1970-FOL] M booked a flight there to check out M. Louis Mahossier, who had a villa there, the 'Umbrella Pines', telephone La Baule 1-2-4. [1971-SEU] La Belle Emma.
see: Pretty Emma
La Belle Étoile La Belle Hélène Laberge. M asked for M. Laberge's house in Yport, the chief engineer, not the farmer. [1931-REN] La Bicoque.
The old porter had come into his office at the Quai des Orfèvres with the black edged visiting card: Mme. Veuve Ferdinand Besson [Valentine Besson], La Bicoque, Étretat.
[1949-DAM]
La Boétie, Rue M phoned a big furriers in the Rue La Boétie, as wild-cat hairs had been found on Honoré Cuendet's jacket.... Nicolas followed one of the men from the Café des Amis, Georges Macagne, to a garage in the Rue La Boétie. He left his car and walked to a house in the Rue de Ponthieu, parallel with the Champs-Élysées. [1961-PAR] Georges Dennery's Citroën had been stolen on Feb 18. He was a municipal engineer who lived in the Rue La Boétie. [1972-CHA] Laboine, Germaine. Féret called and said he'd located Louise Laboine's mother, Germaine Laboine, in Monte Carlo, at the Casino. She called herself Liliane Laboine, and the croupiers called her Lili. About 60, heavy make-up, loads of jewelery. She had a furnished room in the Rue Greuze, near the Boulevard Victor-Hugo, in Nice. She'd toured for years in the Near East and Asia Minor as an artiste under the name Lili France.... At 18 she went to Paris where she had walk-on parts at the Châtelet, and did a little dancing in Around the World in Eighty Days and Michael Strogoff. Then she went to the Folies-Bergère, then a tour of South America. When she was around 30, before the war, she made her round of Near East clubs, Bucharest, Sofia, Alexandria. Several years in Cairo, even Abyssinia. At Instanbul she met a man called Julius Van Cram, a Dutchman apparently, staying at the Pera Palace. He was over 50 then, probably 70s now if he were alive. He spoke English, French and German, went to parties at Embassies. He was Louise Laboine's father. They were married at Istanbul, and they took an Italian boat to Marseilles, then, after a few weeks, Nice, where Louise was born. They lived in a flat off the Promenade des Anglais. Two months later Van Cram went out for cigarettes and never came back. He wrote from London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, New York, and sent money. Once the Turkish consulate checked her "marriage certificate" and said it wasn't real. [1954-JEU] Laboine, Liliane. Féret called and said he'd located Louise Laboine's mother, Germaine Laboine, in Monte Carlo, at the Casino. She called herself Liliane, and the croupiers called her Lili. About 60, heavy make-up, loads of jewelery. [1954-JEU] Laboine, Louise.
Mlle. Irène thought the girl [Louise Laboine]'s name was Louise, possibly something similar to La Montagne or La Bruyère.... Mme. Crêmieux said the girl's name was Louise Laboine.
[1954-JEU]
La Bonne Chope Labor Exchange.
One of the "transient" members of Stan the Killer's gang they called the Chemist, because he had twice visited the Labor Exchange looking for a job in a chemical products firm.
[1937-38-sta]
La Bourboule The past season Joseph Daumale was in La Bourboule, where he'd built a villa. Married to Anne-Marie Penette, of Les Sables-d'Olonne. three children. [1946-NEW]
Arlette had been sent to La Bourboule for her tonsilitis.
[1950-PIC]
La Bréauté Labri, Eugène. Eugène Labri was not an old offender. He was a Frenchman, born in Cairo or Port Said, about 45, fat, with dark brilliant eyes, obsequious. He was the owner of the 'Special Bookshop'. [1936-err] La Bruyère.
Mlle. Irène thought the girl[Louise Laboine]'s name was Louise, possibly something similar to La Montagne or La Bruyère.
[1954-JEU]
La Bruyère, Rue Jean-Charles Gaillard lived in the Rue La Bruyère, in a little private house about the middle of the street. Barely 500 yards from the Lotus. To get there you simply had to go down the Rue Pigalle, cross the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and a little further down, turn to the left. [1962-COL]
Mme. Blanc said Joséphine Papet's car was in a garage in the Rue La Bruyère.
[1968-ENF]
La Bruyère, Square Manuel Mori had a luxury apartment in the Square La Bruyère. [1971-IND] La Caille.
One of the pictures of criminals M showed to Emma.
[1941-SIG]
La Californie Lacasse La Chapelle Ginette Meurant had been seen frequently at dance halls around La Chapelle and Rue de Lappe, most recently one on Rue des Gravilliers. [1959-ASS]
Inspector Louis said that he might get a phone call telling him the Coglia gang was planning an armed robbery in La Chapelle. Though Coglia himself was in prison.
[1971-IND]
La Chapelle, Boulevard de La Charente. Albert Raymond, reporter on La Charente, came up to M. No more than 22, thin, long-haired, tightly-belted raincoat, outsized pipe. [1953-ECO] Lachat.
Someone had called Paul Fabre to 28 Rue Julie, named Lesage or Lechat or Lachat.
[1961-BRA]
La Châtaigneraie Lachaume. M picked up the phone. Lachaume, Quai de la Gare, Ivry... [1958-TEM] Lachaume, Armand. Armand Lachaume had phoned the Ivry Police Station.... Armand Lachaume had been listening outside Angelot's door, shot himself with the 6.35 automatic. [1958-TEM] Lachaume, Félix. Catherine said if M continued smoking M. Félix would have another asthma attack. [1958-TEM] Lachaume, Jean-Paul. Jean-Paul Lachaume, 12, was Léonard Lachaume's son. [1958-TEM] Lachaume, Léonard. Léonard Lachaume, the eldest son, had been shot. [1958-TEM] Lachaume, Marcelle. Marcelle Lachaume, Léonard Lachaume's wife had died 8 years earlier. Two years later Armand Lachaume married Paulette Zuber. [1958-TEM] Lachaume, Paulette.
Armand Lachaume told his wife, Paulette, not to answer.
[1958-TEM]
Lachaume's Biscuits Lachaume, Véronique.
Catherine said there was a daughter, Véronique Lachaume, but she no longer lived there.
[1958-TEM]
La Chaussée La Chope Alsacienne La Citanguette M asked if Coudray weren't at the edge of the Seine, a little beyond Corbeil. He knew the area vaguely, for a few years ago he was involved with a murder at the lock at La Citanguette. [1942-men] Lacore, Marie.
Marie Lacore, the blacksmith's wife, 32-33 with a baby in her arms, came into the Potru sisters' shop.
[1936-lar]
La Coupole Lucas brought in the note sent to the Sifflet. He'd taken it to Moers, who claimed to know the notepaper of most of the cafés in Paris. He said it came from the Coupole on Boulevard Montparnasse. [1930-31-TET] Afterwards Oswald Clark and Ellen Darroman had gone dancing at the Moulin de la Galette, then to the Coupole for grilled sausages.... M walked into the Coupole at 8:30, and sat down with Lucas, next to Jean Ramuel's table. [1939-MAJ] M, thirsty after the movie on the Boulevard Montparnasse, went into La Coupole for a beer and a ham sandwich. [1940-CEC] M went to La Coupole as it was too late for anywhere else except the little bistros around Les Halles. The main dining room was closed but the bar was still open. He ordered a couple of magnificent ham sandwiches and drank three half-pints quickly. It was 4 am. He told the taxi he'd kept to go to the Quai des Orfèvres, then changed his mind and made it the Police Station in the Quai de l'Horloge. [1947-MOR] Luigi told M he'd meet him at La Coupole, Boulevard Montparnasse, in the bar. [1951-LOG] Lacour, Tony.
At one o'clock, when the Penguin Bar closed, they went to the musician Tony Lacour's house.
[1949-CHE]
La Cravache Lacroix, Jérôme. M called Police Judiciaire and asked for his nephew, Jérôme Lacroix, and told him to meet him at the Zanzi-Bar on the Rue Caulaincourt.... Jérôme Lacroix, whom M had brought into the Police Judiciaire, was a big bony fellow with thick hair and a stubborn expression. He had a long nose, small eyes, huge hands and feet. M told him to kiss his wife and son for him. [1937-38-ber] Ladies of Sion. Behind the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor were the Servants of Mary [Servantes de Marie], and on Rue Vavin, the Ladies of Sion [Dames de Sion], and in the other part, on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, the Ladies of St Augustine [Dames Augustines]. [1961-BRA] Ladies of St Augustine. Behind the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor were the Servants of Mary [Servantes de Marie], and on Rue Vavin, the Ladies of Sion [Dames de Sion], and in the other part, on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, the Ladies of St Augustine [Dames Augustines]. [1961-BRA] Lady of the Dunes.
There were inscriptions cut in the stone and on shells: Please make Denise pass her exam, Let Joey [Jojo] learn to read soon, Bob [Robert] and Jeanne, may they have a good catch in Newfoundland, and finally, Lady of the Dunes [Notre-Dame-des-Dunes], may Louis [Louis Legrand] succeed.
[1932-POR]
Laënnec M asked for Dr. Armand Barion, a specialist in lung diseases and a former intern at Laënnec. [1936-lun] On the second floor of the Hôtel du Lion d'Or they found the woman Maria, in labor. They had her taken to Laënnec and sent for a Czech interpreter [Franz Lehel]. [1947-MOR]
Émile Parendon's mother was a young nurse at Laënnec, Mme. Parendon told M, a ward maid, 16 when Professor Parendon got her pregnant.
[1968-HES]
La Faute La Fayette, Rue Rue La Fayette. The whitish pillars of the Trinité Church, surrounded by scaffolding. Rue de Clichy. Motimer-Levingston's limousine stopped in the Rue Fontaine, outside Pickwick's Bar. [1929-30-LET] Ferdinand Voivin would hang about for hours at the Rue La Fayette, where the gem dealers gathered. [1936-bea] The man [Stephan Strevzki] followed the same route, from Trinité and Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], Place Clichy and Barbès [Boulevard Barbès] by way of the Rue Caulaincourt, then from Barbès to the Gare du Nord and the Rue La Fayette. [1939-hom] The two policemen who brought Gérard Pardon back to the Gare du Nord in Paris had come from Feignes. Told them they could catch the 5-7 back. Stopped the taxi at Rue La Fayette to sign their expense sheets. They got out and went into a bar. [1940-CEC] M knew the center of the diamond trade, a big café in the Rue Lafayette, where important brokers met at a special table. [1946-mal] Mme M said she'd checked the whole Rue Lafayette, looking for hat shops. Then Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Rue Blanche and Rue de Clichy. Came back down towards the Opéra [Place de l'Opéra]. She'd already done the Ternes area and the Champs-Élysées. [1949-MME] About two years earlier Lulu [Louise Filon] had gotten sick; they took her to a hospital on the Left Bank for an operation, and she'd been cured. Soon after she had a flat on the Rue La Fayette. [1953-TRO] For several months these three had been working in the neighborhood of the Rue La Fayette, and the newspapers had nicknamed them "the wallborers".... The girl [Louise Laboine]'s dress came from a department store on the Rue La Fayette. [1954-JEU] Where Omer Calas sometimes went to play billiards an hour or two every afternoon at a brasserie. [1955-COR] M received a call from Emergency Calls in the Boulevard du Palais. A hold-up in the Rue La Fayette, between the Rue Taitbout and the Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin. Shots fired, casualties... [1961-PAR]
M told Magistrate Ancelin he'd go to the Rue La Fayette, where they had the diamond market every morning, in a brasserie and in the street.
[1965-PAT]
La Ferté-Alais La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Lafitte, Rue Robert Bureau worked in an insurance company in the Rue Lafitte. [1969-TUE] La Florentine.
On the back of the photograph the words "La Florentine", obviously the name of Gérard Sabin-Levesque's villa.
[1972-CHA]
Lagache Laget. Mme. Laget, a youngish woman in a fur coat, was hiding behind the curtain. [1936-fen] Laget, Oscar.
On the second floor, the plate bore the words Le Commerce Français; Sergeant Lucas opened the door and asked if Oscar Laget was there.
[1936-fen]
Lagny M had been there once. A little town on the edge of the Marne, with a lot of men fishing, and shiny canoes. He couldn't remember the case he had been on but it was in the summer, and he had drunk a light white wine. About a month ago a car had gone into the Marne... [1949-MME] Jean-Claude Ternel had gone with Marinette Augier to Félix et Félicie at Pomponne, on the Marne, not far from Lagny, which she especially liked. [1963-FAN] Manuel Palmari told M there was an inn near Lagny, with a half-deaf old man and his daughter, and Mariani liked the daughter. [1965-PAT] Lagny, Clairfontaine de.
see: Clairfontaine de Lagny
Lagodinec Lagrange. Julien Chabot explained to M that the Courçons were really called Courçon-Lagrange, but originally were just the Lagranges. They added Courçon to their name when they bought the Château de Courçon, three or four generations ago. [1953-PEU] Lagrange, Alain. Alain François Marie Lagrange. François Lagrange's younger son. fair, blond, young, good-looking boy, had visited M's house and taken M's revolver. He had been working at an advertising office on Rue Réaumur, but lost the job for poor attendance. Had applied for a passport 11 months earlier, planning to go to Austria, but had gotten ill and hadn't gone. Took the 12:45 flight from Le Bourget to London, following Jeanne Debul, planning to kill her for ruining his father's life. Checked into the Gilmore Hotel, opposite Victoria Station, without luggage, at 4:00 am. Visited various hotels: Astoria, Continental, Claridge's, asking for Jeanne Debul. Didn't speak English, apparently going down an alphabetical list. Stole the pass key at the Savoy, and let himself into Debul's room, where M convinced him to give up the idea, and come back to Paris with him. His sister worked in a lingerie shop in the Champs-Élysées Arcade, lived with a girlfriend. [1952-REV] Lagrange, François. Called himself "Baron Lagrange", nicknamed "The Baron". Former schoolmate of Dr Pardon's, at Lycée Henri IV, had been expected at the Pardon's dinner, at Lagrange's request, to meet M. He had left school in about his third year, lived on Rue Cuvier at the time, opposite the Jardin des Plantes. His father was a baron, or pretended to be. A few months earlier, after 20 years, had come to Pardon's office. In school, a fat lump, with a baby face and great pink legs, nicknamed "Baby Cadum" (after the monster baby in the advertisements on all the streets). Lived on Rue Popincourt , a few yards away. Diabetic with glandular troubles. Wife had died a long time ago. Some kind of business on the Rue Tronchet, card said, "Company Director," but when Pardon had called was told it had gone out of business years ago. Three children, Philippe Lagrange, a daughter, and Alain Lagrange. Pierre Delteil had met him from time to time at Le Fouquet. He killed André Delteil at his apartment, when Delteil came there, apparently in response to Lagrange's extortion attempts, in addition to those he did on behalf of Jeanne Debul. [1952-REV] Lagrange, Philippe. François Lagrange's eldest son, married. [1952-REV] Lagrange's daughter. M took a one of the waiting police cars to the Champs-Élysées Arcade to try to find Lagrange's daughter. Found her in the third shop he tried, a pretty girl, 21 years and 7 months old. Was 3 when her mother died, immediately after Alain Lagrange's birth. Lived 'everywhere', even near the Bois de Boulogne. Lived on Rue de Berri, two rooms in a private house, with a girlfriend. [1952-REV] La Grosse Jaja.
see: Fat Jaja
Lagrume Janvier had Lourtie, Jamin and Lagrume out checking the possible places Marinette Augier might be, one in each district, though all were outside of the Seine district... [1963-FAN] Inspector Lagrume was dozing at the wheel of a PJ car when M came out of Aline's. [1965-PAT] By that time Dieudonné had been relieved by Lagrume, the gloomiest of all inspectors. He never seemed to be without a cold, and he had flat feet. [1968-ENF] L'Aigle I. Émile Ducrau said after two years in jail he'd like to get a little tug, like L'Aigle I. [1933-ECL] L'Aigle IV.
Émile Ducrau asked Maurice if he'd come across L'Aigle IV above Chalifert, and if they had couplings.
[1933-ECL]
L'Aiguillon
M reminded Julien Chabot that he'd lived in Luçon for more than a year. Said he remembered a certain murder at L'Aiguillon. It was actually a case in which M had had to arrest an ex-magistrate whom everyone considered respectable, on a charge of murder.
[1953-PEU]
L'Aiguillon Point La Jatte Lajaunie, Berthe.
Worked at one of the lingerie shops in Champs-Élysées Arcade, but was on vacation. When M was searching for Alain Lagrange 's sister, he found that name.
[1952-REV]
Lake Geneva Julien Baud came from Morges, on Lake Geneva. [1968-HES] Lalande, Madeleine. The maiden name of the Countess von Farnheim was Madeleine Lalande, born in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée. Was once a member of the troupe of the Casino de Paris.... Mother was a maid. Never knew her father. Came to Paris as a chambermaid. [1950-PIC] Lalinde, François. François Lalinde lived across the street from Adrien Josset. 76, retired colonial adminstrator. Cared for by Julie, a maid he'd brought back from Africa. [1959-CON] Lallemant.
For the past year Mme. Leroy had been the companion of Mme. Lallemant, the mother of a doctor, who lived alone near the Charenton lock, just across the way.
[1945-pip]
Lamalle Lamarck Lamarck, Rue A red light came on, a direct call from the alarm box on the corner of the Rue Caulaincourt and the Rue Lamarck. [1946-mal] Joseph Gastin said he was born in Paris, Rue Caulaincourt, 18th, and his wife was from the Rue Lamarck. [1953-ECO] At Place de Clichy, M told the driver to go up Rue Caulaincourt. They passed the Rue Lamarck, and entered a section where nothing had happened so far. M told the driver to keep on going and come back by the Rue des Abbesses.... Joséphine Simmer, born at Mulhouse, midwife, 43, lived on Rue Lamarck, had just delivered a woman at the top of the Butte, stabbed once in the back. [1955-TEN] Annette Duché had lived with her aunt in the Rue Lamarck when she first came to Paris, but they quarreled and she rented a small apartment on Rue Caulaincourt. [1959-CON] "The Madwoman", Clémentine Pholien of Rue Lamarck. Had been coming two or three times a week for months to the Quai des Orfèvres.... Renée Planchon called Roger Prou at Mme. Fajon's house on the Rue Lamarck, where he was working, to tell him the police were searching their house. [1962-CLI] Mme. Vireveau rented the other bedroom at Les Iris. She was a widow from Paris, Rue Lamarck. [1967-VIC]
The painter with the workshop next to Léon Florentin's said he lived on the Rue Lamarck.
[1968-ENF]
Lamballe Lambert.
Daniel told M that his wife called Dr. Lambert for the red blotches on his child.
[1946-mal]
Lambert Hôtel Lambert, Rue M. and Torrence went to the police station there, rather than checking out every house on Rue Caulaincourt to find Marcel Vivien's ex-wife. [1971-SEU] Lambert, The widow.
Kept the café on the other side of the square at Porquerolles, sometimes slept with Marcellin, according to Jojo. Whenever he caught some sea-wolves (des loups) he'd bring them to her.
[1949-AMI]
Lambilliote Lamblin. Lapointe told M that the lawyer Lamblin, who came in for a lot of discussion at the Law Courts, little of it favorable, had got ahold of Ginette Meurant during the break. [1959-ASS] Lambois. Mme. Keller said she had a friend, Mme. Lambois, who lived just on the other side of the Seine. [1962-CLO] La Meuse. Jean Chabot went to La Meuse , Liège newpaper office, to deliver legal notices. [1931-GAI] La Mode du Jour. Mlle. Otard acted as though if she left the room too long someone would steal her old copies of La Mode du Jour. [1937-38-man] La Montagne.
Mlle. Irène thought the girl [Louise Laboine]'s name was Louise, possibly something similar to La Montagne or La Bruyère.
[1954-JEU]
La Morue Française Lamotte, Blanche.
Auguste Point's secretary. 42. Started to work for him as a typist when she was 17, just out of school. From a village near La Roche-sur-Yon. Her father was a butcher.
[1954-MIN]
La-Motte-Picquet, Avenue de François Ricain arranged for M to meet him in a bar called Le Métro, on the corner of Boulevard de Grenelle, and Avenue de La-Motte-Picquet.... Jacques Huguet said François and his wife must have eaten in a self-service place on the Avenue de La-Motte-Picquet, as they hadn't eaten at the Old Wine Press. [1966-VOL] Lamotte, Victor. Léon Florentin said in addition to him Joséphine Papet had other friends, François Paré, Fernand Courcel, Victor Lamotte, and the young redhead [Jean-Luc Bodard].... Victor Lamotte lived in Bordeaux, in a house on the river in Les Chartrons, where all the old, established familes lived. In Paris he had a suite at the Hôtel Scribe, almost next door to his office in the Rue Auber. He was a winegrower, exporting mainly to Germany and Scandinavian countries. [1968-ENF] Lamoureux, Concerts. see: Concerts Lamoureux lamp. On M's desk was a lamp, darkened by a huge green shade. [1936-bea] Lamperrière. One of the men playing cards at the Hôtel de la Marne was Lamperrière, who was losing. [1930-PRO] Lampson, Mary. The dead woman found by the two carters.... Willy Marco said Mary Lampson was 40. Real name was Céline Mornet, though she claimed to be Marie Dupin. [1930-PRO] Lampson, Walter.
The owner of the Southern Cross, husband of the dead woman, Mary Lampson introducted himself to M: Sir Walter Lampson, retired colonel of the Indian Army.... 68. Had been married twice before Mary Lampson.
[1930-PRO]
La Mulatière Lamule.
see: Lamure
Lamure Lamure, Nicole.
Louise Voivin had lived with her husband, Ferdinand Voivin, a dealer in precious stones, and her sister Nicole Lamure, 18, born in Orléans.
[1936-bea]
Lancaster Hotel Lancet. After dinner Dr Pardon had taken a magazine with a white cover out of his pocket, the English medical journal, the Lancet. [1960-VIE] Lancia. The girl who called M said she was 18, the daughter of a magistrate at La Rochelle. Her friend met her at the Gare de Montparnasse, with Marco, a man she said was her fiancé. They got into a red Lancia and stopped in front of a hotel. She ran away, called M from a bar. [1964-DEF] Lancieux, Francine de. Francine Josselin, née Francine de Lancieux, was the daughter of a retired colonel. [1961-BRA] Lancieux, Philippe de. Francine Josselin said that her brother, Philippe de Lancieux, was eight years younger. He had tuberculosis and went to Haute-Savoie from 5 to 12. Their mother had died a few days after he was born. Their father seemingly held it against Philippe, and started to drink. He sent Philippe to a Catholic school in Montmorency. He ran away at 14, and was found two days later in Le Havre. He was moved to another near Versailles. He enlisted in the Army and in May, 1940, was taken prisoner in the Ardennes, spending the war in Germany, in a camp, then a farm near Munich.... Philippe de Lancieux had been found dead, stabbed several times with a knife, near a bar on Avenue des Ternes. He'd been living for some months with a prostitute named Angèle. He'd told her he'd escaped from Fontevrault where he'd been serving a 20-year sentence. [1961-BRA] Landin, Céline. Émilie Thouret's other sister was Céline, Monique Thouret told M. Her husband, Julien Landin, also worked for the railroad, like her uncle Albert Magnin. [1952-BAN] Landin, Julien.
Émilie Thouret's other sister was Céline Landin, Monique Thouret told M. Her husband, Julien, also worked for the railroad, like her uncle Albert Magnin. Julien Landin, Céline's husband, would be arriving on the Blue Train for the funeral.
[1952-BAN]
Landru In the space of half a century, there hadn't been more than a score of sensational cases, including the Bonnot case, the Mestorino case, the Landru case, the Sarrat case, and a few others.... [1950-MEM] M felt like answering, "And Landru? Was that child's play too?" [1951-LOG] Landry, Marcel. Came upstairs from the Hundred Keys Club to talk to M. About 35. M had known him when he was 18, just up from the provinces. His father was postmaster general at Angers or Tours, or some large town on the Loire. Had visited M with the press card of a scandal magazine. [1964-DEF] Lange, Francine. Hélène Lange's younger sister, about 5 or 6 years younger, first worked in La Rochelle as a manicurist. Went to Paris, eventually returned to La Rochelle and bought a hairdressing establishment in Place des Armes. Unmarried, on holiday in Majorca when her sister was murdered.... blue-eyed, looked younger then the 40 she was. Had lived in Paris 11 years. Had had a child fifteen years earlier, Philippe Lange, she'd put with foster parents in the Vosges. [1967-VIC] Lange, Hélène. Hélène Lange, 48, had been born at Marsilly, about 10 miles from La Rochelle. Her mother had kept a small dry goods store in the Place de l'Église. She was the elder of two daughters, had taken a course of shorthand and typing at La Rochelle. Later worked in a shipping office, and then went to Paris. [1967-VIC] Lange, Philippe. Francine Lange's son, who drowned in a pond when he was two and a half. [1967-VIC] Langeron. Chinquier had located a door-to-door salesman, Langeron. He'd had an aperitif in a brasserie in Place de Clichy, and then a meal in a little restaurant in Rue Caulaincourt. Returning to the Avenue Junot, he'd seen a yellow Jaguar outside Norris Jonker's house, with a red "TT" in the license plate. Two men carrying a third came out to the car. [1963-FAN] Langevin.
Mathilde Goldfinger's doctor, Dr. Langevin, was with her when Lognon arrived.
[1946-mal]
Langlois Langlois from the Fraud Squad recognized the name Lorilleux, who had been seen frequently crossing the boarder into Switzerland. [1950-noe] Langlois, Joseph.
Spoke to M at Zenith Transport. Said Dieudonné Pape had worked there 25 years.
[1955-COR]
Langres At the far end of the canal, beyond the Langres plateau, the Saône, Chalon-sur-Saône, Mâcon, Lyon... [1930-PRO] Lanier. On the first floor was Madame Faisant, a widow, saleswoman in a couture house, and a couple named Lanier, of private means. [1963-FAN] Lannec, Yves. Yves Lannec was the captain of the Saint-Michel. He had a brown mustache and shrewd eyes. [1932-POR] La Noue. The Bréjons [Victor Bréjon] were connected with the La Noues through their mother. [1943-CAD] Lanvin.
Étienne Gouin said that at five past ten, one of his colleagues, Dr. Lanvin, had come up to see him.
[1953-TRO]
La Pérouse Lapie, Ernest. Jules Lapie's family had arrived for the funeral. Ernest Lapie, the ship's carpenter from Fécamp was an uncouth man with close-cropped, bristling hair and a pockmarked face. [1942-FEL] Lapie, Étienne. Ernest Lapie called to his children, Étienne Lapie and Julie Lapie to keep out of the flower beds. [1942-FEL] Lapie, Jules. M was there to investigate the murder of Jules Lapie, nicknamed Peg Leg.... Jules Lapie always kept his glass turned bottom up on the barrel in the cellar. He'd named his house Cape Horn.... Jules Lapie had had a huge head, a square jaw, thick grey eyebrows, and gray bristles all over his face, for he shaved but once a week. [1942-FEL] Lapie, Julie.
Ernest Lapie called to his children, Étienne Lapie and Julie Lapie to keep out of the flower beds.
[1942-FEL]
La Pie Qui Danse Lapin. 4th floor tenants in Léontine Antoine's building. Wife worked in a menswear shop in the Rue de Rivoli, husband an insurance salesman. [1970-FOL] Lapinsky.
Sass & Lapinsky. Jewelry factory on the 2nd floor above Frans Steuvels' studio. Employed about 20 girls and 4 or 5 men.
[1949-MME]
La Planta Lapointe M called little Lapointe into his office. 24. Father a bank clerk in Meulan. Youngest sister Germaine Lapointe, 18, lived with him, worked for a publisher on the Left Bank.... M had sent little Lapointe to investigate Frans Steuvels, under the guise of being a sanitary inspector.... Lapointe called M "Monsieur Maigret." He was longing to say "Chief" like Lucas or Janvier, but felt too much of a newcomer.... M asked Lapointe if he could drive. He said he'd had a license for two years, and M had him get the blue Peugeot to drive him down and Dr Paul to Lagny. [1949-MME] 24 years old, as he'd told Arlette.... Lapointe was sitting in his office when the policeman from the 9th brought Arlette to the QDO. ... Lapointe told M that he was the Albert who was Arlette's boyfriend. M said he hadn't remembered that Lapointe's name was Albert. M said "You haven't been with us very long..." Lapointe told M he had been with a school friend from Meulan, who didn't come to Paris often. They went out with Lapointe's sister, took her home, then went to Montmartre, where the Grasshopper gave them Picratt's card. About three weeks earlier. Arlette sat at their table. Lapointe went back the next day. [1950-PIC] M called Janvier and Lapointe. Before giving them instructions he called the Brasserie Dauphine to have them send up beer and sandwiches.... Young Lapointe when he'd come in had wondered why M and his men were so grimly persistent. [1951-LOG] Young Lapointe had been scheduled to relieve Janvier at 7:00 in the morning. [1951-MEU] Neither Lucas nor Janvier, nor even young Lapointe were in the Inspector's office.... Lapointe was checking the rooming houses.... Arlette called Lapointe "the dark one with lots of hair." [1952-BAN] M sent young Lapointe to relieve Janin. [1953-TRO] M sent for Lapointe, told him to take the girl's clothes up to Moers, and then take the dress to a model agency in the Rue Saint-Florentin, to have someone the same size model the dress for a photo.... Lapointe could still blush, after two years in Police Headquarters! [1954-JEU] M had Lapointe go to the National School of Civil Engineering, in the Rue des Saints-Pères. He used to lunch in a small restaurant almost opposite it. Told him to find out about Jules Piquemal.... Lapointe came in while M was talking on the phone to Auguste Point. The went together to the Ministry of Public Works, in one of the small black cars of Police Headquarters. M said "You drive."... M sent Lapointe to the of DeputiesChamber of Deputies to take deputy Joseph Mascoulin's statement. [1954-MIN] His youth, eagerness, artless confusion when he thought he had committed a faux pas, amused M. He arrived at the Quai de Valmy after M, in a small black police car... referred to as "the little fellow" at the Quai des Orfèvres, because he was the youngest and most junior of the inspectors. Had caught Antoine Cristin , the errand boy for the Maison Pincemail. [1955-COR] Lapointe appeared from time to time, as did Torrence, Mauvoisin - a new member of the force - and others.... Lapointe, wearing blue overalls, was steering a delivery tricycle around the streets of the Grands-Carrières district. With his cap over one ear and his cigarette stuck to his lower lip, he looked 18.... M motioned to Lapointe to stay where he was and to take down what was said during the interrogation of Marcel Moncin. [1955-TEN] M decided to send Lapointe to watch over Ferdinand Fumal.... It was too early in the morning for Lapointe's call. Fumal was dead. [1956-ECH] At the corner of the Rue des Saints-Pères M stopped, for he saw young Lapointe a hundred yards away, smoking a cigarette.... M wondered who was keeping watch near Gilbert Négrel's house, Lapointe, Gianini?... The newpaper article said Lapointe and Neveu had just left the Quai des Orfèvres. [1956-AMU] M looked around for who to bring with him to the Hôtel George-V. Janvier was there, but working on the robbery with assault. He called to Lapointe to come, and told Lucas where they'd be. Young Lapointe looked up delightedly. They got a car; Lapointe drove.... There were three of them at Police Headquarters whose admiration for the superintendent amounted to a cult: Lucas, the oldest, Janvier, who had once been as young, as inexperienced and as enthusiastic as Lapointe, the third, "little Lapointe" as they called him.... Young Lapointe, although the newest member of the team, was beginning to know M. [1957-VOY] M picked young Lapointe, who had less training and less experience, but who often passed for a student or young clerk, to follow up the Xavier Marton investigation. M sent him to the lingerie shop in the Rue Saint-Honoré .... M had taken him under his wing when he came to the Quai des Orfèvres two years earlier; he had made remarkable progress.... M decided to leave the door to the inspectors' office slightly ajar, and to install Lapointe there, who was a fairly good shorthand writer. [1957-SCR] Old Joseph, who had for some mysterious reason escaped the retired-list, greeted him with "Inspector Lapointe is waiting for you." [1958-TEM] M called in Lapointe to record Adrien Josset's statement in shorthand. [1959-CON] Lapointe had been sitting ready to take down the interrogation in shorthand.... Lapointe called. He said Bonfils was in the courtroom keeping close to Ginette Meurant. M said for him to stay close to her, and to get Jussieu as a backup with a car. [1959-ASS] M sent for young Lapointe to give him some instructions. [1960-VIE] Aristide Fumel was one of the few whom M addressed as tu. Another was Lucas, but not Janvier, though he couldn't say why not. And then the very young ones, like little Lapointe.... M had Lapointe deal with the problem of the 17-year-old daughter of a prominent man, who'd been going to drama school and had appeared in several crowd scenes in films. [1961-PAR] Torrence said that in the office were Dupeu, interrogating a suspect in a jewel case, Vacher, and Lapointe had just come in. M told Torrence to have Lapointe go to the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs and wait for him. When M arrived by taxi he saw a small black car belonging to Police Headquarters and Lapointe on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette. [1961-BRA] For a moment, somewhere between the Quai des Orfèvres and the Pont Marie, M halted, so briefly that Lapointe did not notice. [1962-CLO] Lapointe had told Antonio Farano that Lucas was probably at the Brasserie Dauphine.... M sent Lapointe to check on Jean-Charles Gaillard's American car. [1962-COL] Bonfils and young Lapointe were the officers on duty that night.... Lapointe, seeing M light his pipe, took the opportunity to light a cigarette. [1963-FAN] Lucas was away. Young Lapointe was on vacation. Janvier was typing a report. [1964-DEF] Lucas said Lapointe was in the office. [1965-PAT] Apart from his closest collaboarators, like Lucas, Janvier, Torrence, and, more recently, Lapointe, Dr Pardon was M's only friend.... M had Lucas tell Lapointe to come and pick him up by car. [1966-NAH] Lapointe was little more than 25 years old.... M saw the truck from Records Department, Lapointe, and big Torrence arrive at the Rue Saint-Charles. He told Torrence to bring François Ricain back to his office. [1966-VOL] M had Lapointe check on paper manufacturers for Morvan Vellum. After the third anonymous letter, M had Lapointe stay at the Émile Parendon's house. with Lamure.... Lapointe was in M's office when he got to the Quai des Orfèvres on the day of the murder. [1968-HES] M looked uncertainly from Janvier to Lapointe, both at their desks.... M told Lapointe to keep watch on Léon Florentin. [1968-ENF] M gathered three of his favorite inspectors, Janvier, Lucas and young Lapointe - who would probably still be called that when he was 50 - into his office. [1969-TUE] Lapointe came in while M was interrogating Théo Stiernet, and said that Fourquet had called.... Lapointe was typing with only two fingers, but he could type faster than most trained secretaries.... M gathered five of his inspectors for the search for Gilbert Pigou, Lucas, Lapointe, Lourtie, Torrence and Janvier. He left Lapointe on call in the office, ready to pick up M at any time.... M had Lapointe come with him to the Rue Fortuny. They took one of the little black police cars parked in the forecourt. [1969-VIN] M was in conference with Janvier and Lapointe when Old Joseph came in with Léontine Antoine's request to see M. Lapointe saw her, told her he was 27 when she asked if he were M's son. Didn't look a day over 22. ... Lapointe told Janvier that one of his aunts was a patient in a mental hospital.... Lapointe often did duty as stenographer. He brought his shorthand pad to take down Angèle Louette's statement.... M told Lapointe to make sure not to take the car with the engine rattle to go to Le Grand Marcel's. [1970-FOL] Janvier was the only one whom M regularly addressed by the familiar tu, though occasionally he did so to Lapointe, the most junior of the officers. M had Torrence take down the Louis Mahossier interview in shorthand. It was usually Lapointe, the most highly skilled stenographer in the department, but Torrence was competent enough. Lucas and Lapointe were on holiday. [1971-SEU] M told Janvier he'd probably need him, as well as Lucas and Lapointe. [1971-IND]
It was now almost ten years since Lapointe had joined the Police Judiciaire. In those days he'd been known as "Little Lapointe". He'd been tall and lanky, but he'd gotten stouter, married, had two children.
[1972-CHA]
Lapointe, Germaine. Lapointe's youngest sister, 18, lived with him, worked for a publisher on the Left Bank. [1949-MME] Lapointe, Juliette. Juliette Tremblet's maiden name was Juliette Lapointe. She was from Cantal, like her husband, Maurice Tremblet. [1946-pau] La Pommeraye, Germain. Germain La Pommeraye, notary at Versailles arrived in a big, chauffeur-driven car. [1937-38-noy] La Pommeraye, Viviane. Germain La Pommeraye's daughter, Viviane, 17, looked like 20, he said. [1937-38-noy] La Popine.
Francis Decoin lived with Mme. Popineau, who they called La Popine. She had a pretty shop on the corner of the Rue de la République.... La Popine said the cooper's daughter was probably older than 14 or 15, "already well developed... nice little full breasts."
[1947-VAC]
Lappe, Rue de No. 18 Rue de la Roquette turned out to be a low-class hotel. Less than 50 yards from the Place de la Bastille, the Rue de Lappe, with its little dance-halls, leads into it. [1930-31-PHO] Oscar said if M checked at Police Headquarters they'd say he'd been picked up once or twice in raids, as he used to go to the Rue de Lappe to dance a java... [1931-NUI] P'tit Louis said no one had believed his stories of the Rue de Lappe, but now M was there. [1931-REN] The luggage room attendant at the Gare du Nord who'd taken the bag from Loraine Martin lived outside of Paris, somewhere near La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, but played the trumpet after work in a dance band in the Rue de Lappe. [1950-noe] Slowly the skein will unravel. First a name, Otto. He was sometimes in the Rue de Bondy, a little bar frequented by homosexuals of the lowest level. Another on the Rue de Lappe which has become a tourist attraction. [1950-MEM] Priollet had said it was a skivvy who'd started picking up men along the Boulevard Sébastopol. A shopkeeper from Béziers had had his pocket picked and he'd given a good enough description to pick up Thérèse in a dancehall in the Rue de Lappe. [1953-ECO] That evening they'd done Paris by Night: They'd gone to Les Halles, Place Pigalle, Rue de Lappe and the Champs-Élysées, their tickets including the cost of a drink at each place. [1956-ECH] Ginette Meurant had been seen frequently at dance halls around La Chapelle and Rue de Lappe, most recently one on Rue des Gravilliers. [1959-ASS] Aline had worked for about six months for a very rich family in Neuilly, even after she'd starting frequenting the dance halls in the Gravilliers district, and on Rue de Lappe. [1964-DEF] Émile Branchu's girlfriends were not the type found in the neighborhood or in the Rue de Lappe.... Antoine Batille recorded the sounds of dancehalls on the Rue de Lappe. [1969-TUE] Lapps. M said of the area of Pskov, some of the intelligentsia are in favor of German culture, others prefer Slav. Some of the peasants look like Lapps or Kalmuks... there's a whole mass of Jews and part-Jews, who eat garlic and slaughter their livestock differently from the rest. [1929-30-LET] La Presse.
That evening La Presse reported that Louis Viaud, 56, the butler, from Anseval, Nièvre, had shot a burglar.
[1948-PRE]
La Presse Médicale Lara, Jeanine de. Jean-Charles Gaillard's wife, Jeanine Gaillard, had been called "the beautiful Lara". Her real name was Jeanine Dupin, but she used the name Jeanine de Lara as a dancer. [1962-COL] Larcher. The second floor tenants were the Larchers. Rose was their maid, from Normandy. M heard her yelling at one of the children, Jean-Paul! Jean-Paul! [1954-JEU] Larcher, Jean-Paul.
The second floor tenants were the Larchers. Rose was their maid, from Normandy. M heard her yelling at one of the children, Jean-Paul! Jean-Paul!
[1954-JEU]
Lardois, Raoul Lardy. Oscar told his wife to remind Jojo to repair Lardy's truck. [1931-NUI] La Ribaudière.
Leduc had printed notepaper with his address: La Ribaudière, par Villefranche-en-Dordogne.
[1932-FOU]
Lariboisière Arlette Sudre had found out from a young doctor, a resident at Lariboisière that she couldn't have children. [1949-DAM] Larignan. Maître. The lawyer for the Octave Le Cloaguen's at Saint-Raphaël M called to arrange for the old Le Cloaguen place to be searched. [1941-SIG] Larner, Bill.
The car belonged to a garage at the Porte Maillot. It had been rented to an American, Bill Larner, living at the Hôtel Wagram, Avenue de Wagram.... Jimmy MacDonald said Bill Larner was known as "Sweet Bill". Had left the US two years earlier, and spent a few months in Havana before sailing for Europe. One of the best con men in America.... Bill Larner was 40, born in Omaha.
[1951-LOG]
La Rochefoucauld, Rue de M and Police-Constable Lecoeur were alone in the Saint-Georges Police Station in the quiet Rue de la Rochefoucauld. [1948-PRE] The police station was almost opposite, behind Picratt's, on the Rue de la Rochefoucauld. From where they stood they could both see the blue lanterns and the policemen's bicycles against the wall. [1950-PIC] Lognon belonged to the 2nd Precinct in the 9th arrondissement, and his office was at the police station on Rue de La Rochefoucauld. [1951-LOG]
M had completely forgotten that the Second District was Lognon's sector - Lognon, who his colleagues called "Old Grouch". But maybe Lognon wasn't on night duty in the Rue de La Rochefoucauld.
[1954-JEU]
La Rochelle Yves Lannec said he knew Yves Joris as well as anyone from La Rochelle to Rotterdam. [1932-POR] Jacques Rivaud said he'd driven over to La Rochelle on Tuesday. [1932-FOU] Ernest Combarieu was born in Marsilly, near La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime). [1946-obs] Alfred said that Émile Duffieux had taken a train several times, to Nantes, La Roche [La Roche-sur-Yon] or La Rochelle, and he'd always used a travel warrent, free first-class. [1947-VAC] Louise Sabati lived on the bend in the La Rochelle road near the barracks, in a large dilapidated house with 6 or 7. [1953-PEU] Saint-André-sur-Mer was about 9 miles north of La Rochelle, not far from the Aiguillon headland. [1953-ECO] The girl who called M said she was 18, the daughter of a magistrate at La Rochelle. Her friend met her at the Gare de Montparnasse, with Marco, a man she said was her fiancé. They got into a red Lancia and stopped in front of a hotel. She ran away, called M ... Nicole Prieur had told M her friend's name was Laure Dubuisson, daughter of a fishseller in La Rochelle. [1964-DEF] Rose Vatan asked M if he'd stay for dinner. She was born in La Rochelle, had mouclade, chaudrée Fourrassienne - M knew it, made of eel, baby sole, cuttlefish... M said he'd been to La Rochelle, and to Fourras.... Rose said she could offer M 2 or 3 dozen scallops her 75-year-old mother had just sent from La Rochelle. Said she'd made duck à l'orange... M had the scallops and caneton à l'orange for dinner. [1966-VOL] Hélène Lange had been born at Marsilly, about 10 miles from La Rochelle. [1967-VIC]
François Paré's eldest daughter was married to a shipowner in La Rochelle.... Joséphine Papet had told Fernand Courcel her father was a fisherman in La Rochelle, drowned at sea. She had four younger brothers and sisters...
[1968-ENF]
La Roche-sur-Yon M said he'd have to call the Public Prosecutor at La Roche-sur-Yon.... Judge Forlacroix called Dr. Brénéol to ask about a good nursing home around La Roche-sur-Yon. He recommended the Villa Albert Premier. [1940-JUG] Étienne Naud had been called to La Roche-sur-Yon. [1943-CAD] Philippe Bellamy had driven to La Roche-sur-Yon with his sister-in-law, Lili Godreau, where she went to a piano concert.... M took the phone and asked the operator for La Roche-sur-Yon 118, the Examining Magistrate. [1947-VAC] The maiden name of the Countess von Farnheim was Madeleine Lalande, born in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée. [1950-PIC] When Alain Vernoux had come back from La Roche-sur-Yon, he told Julien Chabot about a case he'd been studying. [1953-PEU] Auguste Point, Minister of Public Works. All M knew was that he was a lawyer from the Vendée, from La Roche-sur-Yon. [1954-MIN] La Rose. see: Trochu, Rose Larrieu, Jaquette.
Jaquette Larrieu was the housekeeper of the Comte Armand de Saint-Hilaire, who had retired 12 years earlier, and had been living in Paris in his flat in the Rue Saint-Dominique. She'd been with him for 42 years. That morning she'd found him dead, in his study, shot a number of times.
[1960-VIE]
Larrouy Larue.
Mme. Francine Josselin was in the hands of Dr. Larue, the family doctor, a friend of Saint-Hubert's.... Dr. Larue was a small, chubby man, broad-shouldered, a man who would never lose his composure, dignity or gentleness. In spite of his 50-odd years, his blue eyes still showed innocence and fear of causing pain.
[1961-BRA]
Larue et Georget LaSalle, Boulevard de Las Cases La Serte, Louise.
There'd been a knifing on the Rue de Flandre, and the Countess Louise Paverini, née Louise La Serte's attempted suicide.
[1957-VOY]
La Seyne-sur-Mer M and Marella drove through La Seyne-sur-Mer in Marella's car, and were soon in sight of Sanary Point. [1970-FOL] Lasnier.
René Delfosse's uncle Lasnier, the chocolate maker of the Rue Léopold. Comfortable, well-dressed man about 50. Reported that no money was missing from the till the day before, when Delfosse claimed to have taken it from there.
[1931-GAI]
La Source Lassagne. The evening papers called it a "New Petiot Case". The article was written by little Lassagne, one of the sharpest-witted reporters.... Lassagne, thin and red-faced, lively as a monkey.... Lassagne had found another case of a doctor, in the South of France, where the corpse of one of his patients had been found in his cupboard. [1956-AMU] Lassave, Nina. Marcel Vivien's girlfriend. Had her own apartment on the Boulevard Rochechouart, not very far from Place Pigalle, inherited from her mother who had died the year before. A pharmacy on one side, bakery on the other. Had worked in a lingerie shop in Rue Lepic when she first took up with Vivien, but quit soon after. When she became Louis Mahossier's girl friend as well, Vivien strangled her in a fit of rage. [1971-SEU] La Tétoune. La Tétoune was a portly Marseillaise [Marseilles] who was reputed to do the best southern cooking in Paris. [1962-COL] Latin. Jeanne Jeunet said Louis Jeunet knew they Latin name for every plant. [1930-31-PHO]
The weedy little fair-haired man who taught them Latin used to say "You wen't allow us to forget that we were descended from apes, I see, Master Florentin [Léon Florentin].
[1968-ENF]
Latin America M. Philippe had left a report on Raymond Couchet's desk, that included publicity plans for Latin-American countries. [1931-OMB] Because of his Latin-American appearance, Edgar Fagonet called himself Zebio. [1939-MAJ]
Jean Maura had been seen talking to a Chilean woman on the ship, who was leaving the next day for Latin America on one of the Grace Line ships.
[1946-NEW]
Latin Quarter Roger Campois, who'd killed himself at 22, had suffered heavy gambling losses in the Latin Quarter. [1945-FAC] Bob d'Anseval's father lived in a small flat in the Latin Quarter. [1948-PRE] Christmas Eve Paul Martin had eaten on the Salvation Army barge. Around 11:00 he went to the Latin Quarter and worked as a door-keeper at a nightclub. [1950-noe] The Chief retained a certain Latin Quarter streak, from the days when the Latin Quarter still went in for hoaxes. [1950-MEM] Véronique Fabre had studied at the Sorbonne, met her husband in the Latin Quarter. [1961-BRA] Judge Ancelin seemed like a perpetual Latin Quarter student. [1965-PAT] M said a detective shouldn't get married, so he could get to know about every social sphere, the foreign bistros in the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain... [1966-NAH] M took his wife to a seafood restaurant in the Latin Quarter, with a glassed in terrace pleasantly warmed by a charcoal heater. M even had some sea urchins, flown in that day from the Midi.They had a bottle of Pouilly Fumé with their grilled red mullet.... It was so warm that M and Mme M walked home from the Latin Quarter, making a detour to walk throught the Ile Saint-Louis. [1968-HES] Jacques Riolle was the bookkeeper, who'd only been there a few months. Really only dealt with petty cash. About 40, bachelor, lived in a family boardinghouse in the Latin Quarter.... Gilbert Pigou had lived in the Latin Quarter when he met Liliane [Liliane Pigou], his future wife. [1969-VIN] Moers was a bachelor and lived in student's lodgings in the Latin Quarter. [1971-IND]
Dr. Florian remembered that Dr. Amadieu, a psychiatrist who worked at Sainte-Anne and lived in the Latin Quarter, was a mutual friend.
[1972-CHA]
La Tour d'Argent Latour, Francine. Janvier had a glossy photo of Francine Latour, 121 Rue de Longchamp, Passy. He said she was now in the Folies-Bergère. [1947-MOR] Latourie, José.
71 Rue Lepic. One of the dancers at Pickwick's Bar. They said at the bar he'd gone to his country place in La Varenne. José had called Pepito Moretto, who'd killed Torrence at the Majestic Hotel, then come to Pickwick's Bar, waited for M and shot him.... News came in from the Courcelles district. José Latourie had been found dead outside the gate of the Parc Monceau, three knife wounds, also killed by Pepito.
[1929-30-LET]
Latuile Latvia
Bérenstein said before the war the two main stonecutting centers were Antwerp and Amsterdam. Most of the stonecutters were from the Baltic -- Latvia or Estonia.
[1965-PAT]
L'Auberge aux Noyés Laubier. Mme. Had taken over the Papeterie Roman when M. Roman died. A widow in her fifties. [1968-HES] Lauer. Mme. Lauer wrote to Mme M that she was sending by express six plum-trees she'd asked for, which should do well in the Loire district. [1934-MAI] Lauer, Émile. Émile Lauer, Philippe Lauer's father, was short-sighted, like Philippe. He'd said it was M's fault Philippe had joined the police, instead of looking for a good job in a bank. [1934-MAI] Lauer, Philippe.
Mme M was looking out the diamond-paned window, her hair in curling pins: "It's Philippe", M's nephew.... Philippe Lauer turned up his collar to hide that he was wearing a dinner jacket, but people turned to stare at his patent leather shoes.... Philippe Lauer was a great, plump, red-haired lad with a pink complexion; shortsighted, with glasses. He was Mme M's sister's son, born down in Alsace, and M had got him into the Quai des Orfèvres.
[1934-MAI]
Laughton, Charles Laur, Adrienne. Torrence called from the apartment of Adrienne Laur, 28 bis Rue Brunel. Belgian, born in Antwerp, living in France 5 years. A Folies-Bergère nude. [1951-LOG] Laure. Mme. Keller got a call from her friend Alice, wife of the Minister of the Interior. Would meet her and Laure later. [1962-CLO] Laure Dubuisson.
see: Dubuisson, Laure
Laurel and Hardy Laurence Amorelle. see: Amorelle, Laurence Laurence Cuendet. see: Cuendet, Laurence Laurence Decoin. see: Decoin, Laurence Laurence Malik. see: Malik, Laurence Laurence Naud. see: Naud, Laurence Laurence Van Offel. see: Van Offel, Laurence Laurence Wilfur.
see: Wilfur, Laurence
Laurencin, Marie
On the walls of Gérard Batille's drawing room were Picassos of the blue period, Renoirs, and Marie Laurencins. Pale blue and pink seemed to be the colors of the house, as in the Marie Laurencin paintings.
[1969-TUE]
Laurent Laurent, Jeanine.
The new victim was Jeanine Laurent, a maid working for the Durandeaus on Rue de Clignancourt. 19. M had her body sent to the Forensic Institute and had someone inform Dr Paul.
[1955-TEN]
Lausanne John Arnold said most people thought David Ward did nothing but enjoy himself at Deauville, Cannes, Lausanne or Rome.... Muriel Halligan now lived in Lausanne with her daughter. [1957-VOY]
The only town Justine Cuendet had ever known before Paris was Lausanne.
[1961-PAR]
Lausanne-Palace Lauwenstein, Lia.
One of the two girls who'd gone with Willy Marco was Lia Lauwenstein, born in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg in 1903. Lived mostly on the Riviera.
[1930-PRO]
Laval and Piollet La Vallette Lavancher, Geneviève. A chambermaid at the hotel, Geneviève Lavancher, also recognized Ginette Meurant's photo. [1959-ASS] Lavancher, Justin.
Justin Lavancher lived on the first floor right at Aline's. Métro inspector, wife, 16-year-old daughter went to an art school on Boulevard des Batignolles.. Maid lived in the attic.
[1965-PAT]
Lavandou, Le La Varenne La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire Lavaud. Professor. Lucette Calas was assistant to a surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu, Professor Lavaud, whom she planned to marry. [1955-COR] La Vie à la Campagne. The local postman told M he delivered letters to Émile Gallet, most from Berry and Cher, and some reviews: La Vie à la Campagne, Chasse et Pêche, La Vie de Château... [1930-GAL] M found magazines on the shelf at the villa; Farms and Castles, Country Life, The Connoisseur. [Fermes et Châteaux, La Vie à la campagne, Connaissance des Arts]. [1971-IND] La Vie de Château. The local postman told M he delivered letters to Émile Gallet, most from Berry and Cher, and some reviews: La Vie à la Campagne, Chasse et Pêche, La Vie de Château... [1930-GAL] La Vie Parisienne.
M saw a figure silhouetted on the staircase which might have come straight from the cover of La Vie Parisienne. Félicien Gendreau was wearing a dress suit, a cloak and an opera hat. He was thin and old, his trim mustache with its turned up points was obviously dyed. [1948-PRE] The was a naked girl on a calendar in the Penguin Bar, like a Vie Parisienne centerfold. [1949-CHE]
In 1900 Norris Jonker would have been much sought after as a model for drawings in La Vie Parisienne.
[1963-FAN]
La Villette At 12:00 M was sitting in the discrict commissariat of La Villette, the third he'd been to that morning, where he found a report of a body found in the Seine which must have been Old Ulrich. [1931-GUI] M called the Urbaine cab company, as that was the one Lise Gendreau-Balthazar had taken. No. 48 came from the depot at La Villette, the cabby's name, Eugène Cornille. He usually kept his cab on the Place Saint-Augustin, and went to eat at Au Rendezvous du Massif Central. [1948-PRE] There were a certain number of streets, in La Villette, Ménilmontant, and the Porte d'Italie, where one ventured reluctantly. [1950-MEM] Jef Van Damme looked more like a gangster from La Villette than a waiter. [1951-MEU] Lucas had found a box with Louise Filon's birth certificate: Louise Marie Josephine Filon, born in Paris, 18th, daughter of Louis Filon, tripe seller, Rue de Cambrai, near the slaughter houses of La Villette, and Philippine Le Flem, washerwoman. [1953-TRO] The previous night, as The Two Brothers was drawing away from the dock at La Villette, headed for the Saint-Martin Canal, they had churned up a lot of mud, as they were overweight... M saw Lapointe chase a young man toward La Villette from Chez Calas. [1955-COR] Ferdinand Fumal had offices in the Rue Rambuteau, near Les Halles, and others at La Villette, near the slaughter houses. [1956-ECH] The secretary said David Hirschfield sometimes had lunch at La Villette. [1958-TEM] François Ricain said when he'd been drinking heavily at a small restaurant in La Villette, he'd bought the Browning from someone. [1966-VOL] Antoine Batille recorded the sounds of the Bal des Fleurs at La Villette. [1969-TUE] Lavisse, Jules. Known as Pépère or Old Jules, a well-built man with white hair and a fresh complexion, one of Léonard Planchon's employees. Said he was sometimes called St. Peter. [1962-CLI] Law Courts. Lapointe told M that the lawyer Lamblin, who came in for a lot of discussion at the Law Courts, little of it favorable, had got ahold of Ginette Meurant during the break. [1959-ASS] Léon Florentin said he was surprised to find such nice furniture in the Law Courts [Police Judiciaire]. [1968-ENF] M walked as far as the Law Courts, went into the café on the corner for a glass of rum. [1969-VIN]
M went up to the attics of the Law Courts building, where Moers' empire was: the Forensic Laboratory.... M told Line he'd take them to the Central Police Station [Dépôt] first, in the basement of the Law Courts [Palais de Justice].
[1971-IND]
Law Courts Bar Law School lawyer. see Maigret and Lawyers (Maigret et les avocats) by Murielle Wenger Lawyer.
Fernande said two or three times they mentioned the Lawyer. She thought it was Germain Cageot.
[1934-MAI]
Lay Lazicourt LE LEA LEB LEC LED LEE LEF LEG LEH LEI LEJ LEL LEM LEN LEO LEP LEQ LER LES LET LEV LEW Léa. Someone said on leaving the Coupole, "Try to bring Léa..." [1930-31-TET] The proprieter of the Pélican came over to sit with M. Showed him that "Léa was over there with a deputy..." [1939-MAJ] Big Léa was the fat clochard in the pink blouse who told M about Doc (François Keller). [1962-CLO] The girl in Jules Raison's office when M came in was Léa, who'd been asking for an advance. [1962-COL] Lebanese.
Lucas called that Superintendent Manicle of the 14th had a murder in a small private house in the Avenue du Parc-Montsouris, a Lebanese named Félix Nahour. The charwoman had found the body.
[1966-NAH]
Lebanon Le Bébé Rose Lebel Lebier.
M called Dr Pardon to ask if he knew who Dr J-- of Boulevard Haussmann was. Pardon said he'd check the Medical Register, and found it was Dr Philippe Jave, probably 45, sound practitioner, good-looking. The other doctor was Gilbert Négrel, about 30, one of Professor Lebier's assistants. Lebier was known to be fussy about his associates, and difficult to get along with.
[1956-AMU]
Leboeuf Lebon, François. Jules said François Lebon, the heavy set man with a red neck at the bar, had been there last night too. He'd worked on the roads for thirty years, then had an accident, and got a pension. [1969-TUE] Lebourg.
M handed Lucas some mail about the Lebourg case.
[1968-HES]
Le Bourget Mrs. Mortimer-Levingston was catching the Berlin plane from Le Bourget. [1929-30-LET] Instead of going to Le Bourget, to fly to London, Ephraim Graphopoulos went to the Gare du Nord and bought a train ticket to Berlin. [1931-GAI]
Airport. M called Le Bourget to check on the planes to London. Inspector Matthieu answered. that Alain Lagrange's name was on the list. M got a later plane there to London.
[1952-REV]
Lebraz.
Dr Pardon had been on the staff at Val-de-Grâce, an assistant of Lebraz.
[1952-REV]
Lebraz, Emile Le Bret, Maxime Le Bulletin des Mandataires. Oscar Laget published trade journals, Le Journal de la Boucherie, Le Bulletin des Mandataires, Le Moniteur des Cuirs et Peaux, and others, in the Rue Beaubourg. [1936-fen] Lecat. Victor Bréjon said his wife's maiden name was Lecat. His sister, Louise Bréjon, married Étienne Naud. [1943-CAD] Lechat. Maître. Françoise Boursicault had called a lawyer, Maître Lechat, who lived in the Boulevard des Batignolles, and who promised to come see her in the afternoon. [1951-MEU]
Someone had called Paul Fabre to 28 Rue Julie, named Lesage or Lechat or Lachat.
[1961-BRA]
Lechat Le Chat Botté Le Ciel du Lit Le Clinche, Pierre. Pierre Le Clinche had been a pupil of Jorissen's, 20, sailed 3 months earlier on the Océan, a Fécamp trawler which fished cod in Newfoundland. A few hours after the ship had returned, the captain's body was found. Le Clinche had been arrested. [1931-REN] Le Clinche, Pierrot. Five years later, passing through Quimper, M saw a rope merchant standing in his shop door, calling to his son, Pierrot. It was Pierre Le Clinche. [1931-REN] Le Cloaguen, Antoinette. Mme. Opened the door at the Boulevard des Batignolles for M and Octave Le Cloaguen. 50ish, small nervous woman with mobile features. [1941-SIG] Le Cloaguen, Catherine. see: Biron Le Cloaguen, Gisèle. 28. Octave Le Cloaguen's daughter. [1941-SIG] Le Cloaguen, Octave. Ship's surgeon, retired. 68. 13 Boulevard des Batignolles. The name in the identification papers used by Picard, the old man found in Mlle. Jeanne's kitchen, actually, her father. [1941-SIG] Lecocq d'Arneville, Armand. Armand Lecocq d'Arneville said the picture in the paper of Louis Jeunet was his brother, Jean Lecocq d'Arneville. 35. Born in Liège. A messenger in a factory in Issy-les-Moulineaux, lived in Grenelle with his wife. Had enlisted in the army at 16, applied to be sent to the Congo. Stayed there a month and hid in Matadi a week, then stowed away on a passenger ship for Paris. Was caught, did time, escaped, and came to France. He'd done all kinds of jobs, slept in Les Halles, never tried to get back to Belgium. [1930-31-PHO] Lecocq d'Arneville, Jean. Armand Lecocq d'Arneville said the picture in the paper of Louis Jeunet was his brother, Jean Lecocq d'Arneville. [1930-31-PHO] Lecoeur.
Maki's real name was Lecoeur, but Maki was a better name for a sculptor.
[1966-VOL]
Lecoeur Lecoeur called M from the Faubourg-Saint-Denis police station. Gaston Grimal, a businessman from the provinces, Clermont-Ferrand, going along Rue de Maubeuge, had been accosted by Alain Lagrange with a gun who demanded his wallet, "please", then ran away towards Boulevard de la Chapelle. [1952-REV]
Lecoeur was on duty in front of the QDO when Léontine Antoine came to see M.
[1970-FOL]
Lecoeur, Désiré Lecoeur, René. M entered Marina's and found Christiani and his young recruit, René Lecoeur, known as the Accountant, as he'd been a bank clerk in Marseilles. [1936-pig]
M had to be in court to give evidence in the case of René Lecoeur, 22, who had battered his aunt to death with a bottle.
[1952-BAN]
Lecoeur Works Lecoin Lecoin, Georgette. July 21, Georgette Lecoin, married, 2 children, 31, lived on Rue Lepic, going down Rue Tholozé, nearly opposite a dance hall, stabbed once. [1955-TEN] Lecoin, Joseph.
The driver of the truck, Joseph Lecoin, had thought he'd heard cries, and the skipper of the barge Belle-Thérèse had also heard someone shouting for help.
[1937-38-noy]
Le Commerce Français Leconte-de-Lisle, Rue Neighboring streets of the Rue Lopert, instead of being named after great men of the republic, had author's names: Rue Boileau, Rue Théophile-Gautier, Rue Leconte-de-Lisle. [1959-CON] Lecot.
M tried to call Jean-Charles Gaillard but misdialed and got Lecot's, the chemist.
[1962-COL]
Le Coudray Lecourbe. Doctor in the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince. M went to Dr. Lecourbe's office to get his chest wound treated. [1929-30-LET] Lecureur, Jean. The head clerk was Jean Lecureur.... M. Jean Lecureur was younger than M had expected, about 50, dark, with a small mustache. [1972-CHA] Lecuyer.
Mme Lecuyer, the concierge at 17b Place des Vosges, said she had 22 tenants.
[1937-38-amo]
Ledent
Ledent arrived, a young police surgeon whom M knew, and who shook his hand warmly.
[1961-BRA]
Ledent, F Le Désir Le Doux Frisson Ledru, Cécile.
M read again the note from the magistrate: A family affair; interview Cécile Ledru, but act only with the utmost circumspection. She was 28, good-looking.
[1937-38-bay]
Leduc
One of the youngest inspectors in the department. M gave him 2 sets of Marcel Vivien's photos to deliver to the main evening papers.
[1971-SEU]
Leer
At Leer the train emptied, except for M and the man.
[1930-31-PHO]
Leeuwarden Jef Keulemans reported that Évelina Nahour's father became assistant manager of a cheesmongery in Leeuwarden, Friesland. Évelina was 27, born in Amsterdam. [1966-NAH] Lee, Wo. Sergeant Ward said he took Bessie Mitchell to the Penguin Bar where his friends, four other Air Force men, were waiting: Sergeant Dan Mullins, Corporal Jimmy Van Fleet, Sergeant Ted O'Neil, and Wo Lee. Wo Lee was a Chinese who looked barely 16. [1949-CHE] Le Figaro. see: Figaro The writer of the anonymous letter (Gus Parendon) requested a response to "K.R." in Le Figaro or Le Monde. [1968-HES] Le Flem. M was playing billiards in the Café Français, Luçon, with M. Le Flem, the proprieter. [1940-JUG] Le Flem, Philippine.
Lucas had found a box with Louise Filon's birth certificate: Louise Marie Josephine Filon, born in Paris, 18th, daughter of Louis Filon, tripe seller, Rue de Cambrai, near the slaughter houses of La Villette, and Philippine Le Flem, washerwoman.
[1953-TRO]
Le Fouquet Le Français Left Bank M called little Lapointe into his office. Youngest sister Germaine Lapointe, 18, lived with him, worked for a publisher on the Left Bank. [1949-MME] On the same floor of the little hotel in which M first lived in Paris, on the Left Bank, was a man of about 40 who interested him. He once met him at the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Michel talking to someone who would have been described, at that period, as an 'apache'. [1950-MEM] Lucas lived on the Left Bank. [1951-LOG] About two years earlier Lulu [Louise Filon] had gotten sick; they took her to a hospital on the Left Bank for an operation, and she'd been cured. Soon after she had a flat on the Rue La Fayette. [1953-TRO] Lapointe had picked the Left Bank section around Boulevard Saint-Germain; he knew it well because he lived there. The second tailor was Polish, on the Rue Vaneau. He'd made a suit for Marcel Moncin, who lived at 228 bis Boulevard Saint-Germain, near the Solférino métro station. He called M from the Café Solférino. [1955-TEN] Ferdinand Fumal was lunching in a big Left Bank restaurant. [1956-ECH] Wasn't it all rather puzzling for Lapointe, who lived in modest furnished rooms on the Left Bank? [1957-VOY]
Lucas radioed to M that it seemed like Julien Mila was headed towards the Left Bank by taxi.
[1969-TUE]
Legaille Le Gal. Sophie Ricain's father, M. Le Gal, came to M's office. M told him the body was in the Police Pathological Department, near the Pont d'Austerlitz. [1966-VOL] Le Gal, Sophie. Le Gal was Sophie Ricain's maiden name. [1966-VOL] Legendre. Philippe Lherbier was at the home of Maître Legendre, Boulevard Saint-Germain. A lawyer of the upper ranks of Parisian society. [1969-TUE] Legendre, Henri. Henri Legendre was an industrialist, commuted between Paris and Rouen. Marie-France Legendre was his second wife, 15 years younger than he. They had a place at Maisons-Lafitte, where they had regular week-end parties. [1969-VIN] Legendre, Marie-France.
Henri Legendre was an industrialist, commuted between Paris and Rouen. Marie-France was his second wife, 15 years younger than he.
[1969-VIN]
Legion of Honor Mostaguen's sole ambition was to get the Legion of Honor someday. [1931-JAU] Maxime Le Bret's full name was Maxime le Bret de Plouhinec. He was an officer of the Legion of Honor. [1948-PRE] Near the front window were some belote players, and M sat down to watch. The oldest player was an officer of the Legion of Honor. [1956-AMU] Danet said that Stuart Wilton was a Commander of the Legion of Honor. [1961-PAR]
Jean de Caramé had been promised the Legion of Honor, and looked forward to it.
[1970-FOL]
Le Glen. The mayor said the Pretty Emma had belonged to a man named Le Glen or Le Glérec [Léon Le Glérec], that the Pretty Emma had been seized when it arrived at a small port near New York, carrying cocaine. At that time, most freighters, especially those that carried salt to Newfoundland, were involved in smuggling liquor. [1931-JAU] Le Glérec, Léon.
The mayor said the Pretty Emma had belonged to a man named Le Glen or Le Glérec.... My found a letter to Emma from Léon Le Glérec, saying that the Quimper priest would bless his new boat, the Pretty Emma, next week. He'd make good money carrying onions to England, and they could get married.... M asked Léon Le Glérec to tell the story of what happened to the Pretty Emma.
[1931-JAU]
Le Goënec Legrand Legrand, Gaston. M. Kept the bicycle shop on the ground floor of Cécile Pardon's apartment building. Married three months, slept in the back of the shop. [1940-CEC] Legrand, Julie. Julie Legrand was still clutching her bag, determined not to give way to fatigue. [1932-POR] Legrand, Louis. Julie Legrand's brother, Louis Legrand, was called Big Louis. [1932-POR] Le Grand Marcel.
35. Actual name was Marcel Montrond. Tall, thin, bony. Lived at 27 Boulevard des Batignolles. ... Billy Louette said he'd run into his mother on the Boulevard Saint-Germain a few weeks ago with a man known as Le Grand Marcel, rumored to be a pimp.... Said he'd been having an apéritif on the terrace of a café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain at the time Léontine Antoine had been killed. Went to dinner at Chez Lucio's on the Quai de la Tournelle with Angèle Louette, and to a movie. Had been arrested four times for procuring. Suspected of being tied up with the Corsican gang that had caused so much commotion in Paris a few years back.... In front of his rooms was parked his red convertible, 10 years old. Room 23, second floor. He said he was fed up with the "Sergent-Major" as he called Angèle Louette, and was leaving for Toulon. Said he could be reached there c/o Bob, Bar de l'Amiral. Quai de Stalingrad.... Angèle Louette said Le Grand Marcel's mother was still alive, and lived in a small town in central France.... The 2nd foor tenant said she recognized Marcel's picture as someone who'd bumped into her on the stairs.... Le Grand Marcel was found in the harbor at Toulon, a .38 calliber bullet between his eyes. Marella figured it was someone from Nice, Cannes or Marseilles, that Pepito Giovanni had had brought in. Certainly wouldn't be in Toulon any longer.
[1970-FOL]
Le Grau-du-Roi Le Grelot Legros. M playfully suggested that maybe he could be from Bergerac, and that his name could be Legros, wholesale timber merchant - he'd always longed to be one because of the smell of the newly sawn boards. [1937-38-not] Le Guérec.
The Le Guérecs owned a canning factory at Concarneau, and their "Le Guérec et Laurent" brand of sardines was well-known.
[1956-AMU]
Le Guérec et Laurent Le Guérec, Éveline. Philippe Jave settled in Issy-les-Moulineaux after his marriage 5 years ago to Éveline Le Guérec, 16 years his junior, making her 28 at the time of her death. The Le Guérecs owned a canning factory at Concarneau, and their "Le Guérec et Laurent" brand of sardines was well-known. The senior Le Guérec died two years later, leaving the Concarneau business to his son, Yves Le Guérec, and his daughter. The Javes had a baby daughter, Michèle Le Guérec, 3. [1956-AMU] Le Guérec, Michèle. The Philippe Javes had a baby daughter, Michèle , 3. [1956-AMU] Le Guérec, Yves.
The senior Le Guérec died two years later, leaving the Concarneau business to his son, Yves, and his daughter, Éveline Le Guérec.
[1956-AMU]
Le Havre La Bréauté station, where M left the main-line train from Paris to Le Havre, gave him a foretaste of Fécamp.... Hans [Hans Johansson] moved to Le Havre, where he met Berthe, Berthe Swaan.... Léon asked M not to talk to loud, as a commerical traveler from Le Havre was in the next room and had to catch a 5:00 am train the next day. [1929-30-LET] The Éco III belonged to a company in Le Havre. [1930-PRO] Léon Le Glérec said he'd try to find work in Le Havre. [1931-JAU] Mme. Bernard said Octave Fallut must have gone to Le Havre to meet the woman, because no one had seen them together. [1931-REN] The boat from Le Havre was sighted. The Saint-Michel would have to move. Yves Lannec wanted to to to Caen, end of the canal. [1932-POR] The Browns were the biggest wool people in Australia. One in Sydney took care of the shipping. Harry Brown traveled to the places they shipped to, mostly Liverpool, Le Havre, Hamburg or Amsterdam. [1932-LIB] Le Havre and Rouen are reached by the Lower Seine. [1933-ECL] Arsène said it hadn't been his regular day off, but he'd gone to see his sister who was married to a baker in Le Havre. [1937-38-bay] Désiré Campois told M he was leaving from Le Havre. [1945-FAC] Michael O'Brien said that even if M left for Le Havre or Cherbourg the next day, they'd still feel hunted. [1946-NEW] The Le Havre train, which could have taken them to a Channel steamer, left the Gare Saint-Lazare ten minutes earlier. [1948-PRE] M left the Paris-Le Havre train at a small, depressing station, Bréauté-Beuzeville, where he waited for his connection to Étretat.... Ferdinand Besson had been a small chemist in Le Havre. [1949-DAM] Marcellin was born in Le Havre, arrested there at 17 for assault and battery. [1949-AMI] The Police Judiciaire had procured a list of all the passengers who had arrived at Le Havre and Cherbourg in the past few weeks. [1951-LOG] Françoise Boursicault had been born in Le Havre. [1951-MEU] Ernestine Jussiaume received a card from Alfred Jussiaume from Le Havre, a picture of the Town Hall. [1951-GRA] Victor Ricou told M he hadn't left Paris, satyed in a small hotel in the Place d'Italie for three months, then to Le Havre, where he'd stowed away on a boat for Panama. [1956-ECH] The purser on the ship M had taken had said the hardest part wasn't arriving on time in New York or Le Havre, but keeping the passengers entertained. [1957-VOY] Léontine Faverges came from a poor family in Le Havre. [1959-ASS] Philippe de Lancieux was sent to a Catholic school in Montmorency. He ran away at 14, and was found two days later in Le Havre. [1961-BRA] Émile Boulay had arrived from Le Havre seven years earlier. He'd bought a nightclub in the Rue Pigalle, the Lotus, and now he owned four. [1962-COL] Louis Pélardeau told Lecoeur he had inherited a wire drawing business near Le Havre from his father. Eventually built a plant in Rouen, then Strasbourg. Head office on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. [1967-VIC] Lehel, Franz. The Czech interpreter said his name was Franz Lehel. [1947-MOR] Leica. With his Leica, Barnacle would pose as one of those strolling photographers, increasingly common on the Champs-Élysées and the big boulevards of Paris. [1964-DEF] Leila. Leila had interested M. Charles. She'd married an engineer from Toulouse. [1972-CHA] Leinbach, Lena. The Austrian woman, Lena Leinbach, said the cases over Otto Braun's seat were hers. [1936-arr] Le Journal de la Boucherie.
Oscar Laget published trade journals, Le Journal de la Boucherie, Le Bulletin des Mandataires, Le Moniteur des Cuirs et Peaux, and others, in the Rue Beaubourg.
[1936-fen]
Le Lavandou Leleu, Jeanne. The actual Jeanne Leleu was a short dark girl with a squashed nose who left home three years ago. Her parents and brother, a bank employee, stilled lived in Moulins. [1950-PIC] Leleu, Jeanne-Marie-Marcelle. The false identification Arlette used was Jeanne-Marie-Marcelle Leleu, 24, born in Moulins, choreographic artist, 42 B [ter], Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. [1950-PIC] Leloup.
Maître. M. Henri Monfils' legal adviser, as fat as Monfils was thin. Came to see M while he was eating lunch at Désiré's with Spencer Oats. Said he'd heard Juliette Boynet had likely been Charles Dandurand's mistress at Fontenay-le-Comte. M said he wasn't surprised.
[1940-CEC]
Lemaire Lemaire, Alain.
The old lady told of Alain Lemaire, a dentist practicing opposite the post office. When Éveline Jave was 16 he'd been married 5 years and had 2 children. He had an affair with Éveline and his wife left with the children, returning to her parents' home in Rennes, from which she wrote for a divorce.
[1956-AMU]
Le Mans The garage was on the main road, within easy reach of big provincial towns like Chartres, Orléans, Le Mans, and Châteaudun. [1931-NUI] Decharme was the son of an accountant from Le Mans. [1933-ECL]
Dorothy Payne had married Aldo de Rocca, an Italian artificial silk magnate with a passion for motor cars who raced at Le Mans every year.
[1957-VOY]
Le Métro Lemke. Mme. Keller's mother's sister, who lived in Strasbourg, left her the money. She'd married a man named Lemke after she was 45, worked at a hospital. Shortly before WWII, Lemke was a patient there, a dealer in scrap metal who had a bad reputation in Alsace. During the war he dealt with the Germans, made a lot of money. After the Liberation the French Forces of the Interior hunted for him. They fled to Spain and sailed for South America, Argentina. One day they took a plane to Brazil and it crashed, killing them both. [1962-CLO] Lemke, Jean. Jean Lemke, one of the aliases of Hans Ziegler. [1954-JEU] Le Monde. The writer of the anonymous letter (Gus Parendon) requested a response to "K.R." in Le Figaro or Le Monde. [1968-HES] Le Moniteur des Cuirs et Peaux.
Oscar Laget published trade journals, Le Journal de la Boucherie, Le Bulletin des Mandataires, Le Moniteur des Cuirs et Peaux, and others, in the Rue Beaubourg.
[1936-fen]
Le Mourillon Lempereur. Léonard Planchon's boss before he bought him out. Pépère had worked for him. [1962-CLI] Lenain. Maître. Adrien Josset's lawyer was Maître Lenain. Specialized in spectacular cases. [1959-CON] Lena Leinbach. See: Leinbach, Lena [1936-arr] lengths of the Maigrets.
see How Many Maigrets?
Lenoir, Florence. Mrs. Florence Wilton, née Florence Lenoir. Her mother did ironing at a laundry in the Rue de Rennes, her father was in the police. She was in a troupe of dancing girls at the Casino de Paris. [1961-PAR] Lenoir, Jean. 22. M went to Jean Lenoir's cell in the Santé. His reprieve had been turned down. [1931-GUI] Lenoir, Marcel.
Le Ciel du Lit on the Rue de Ponthieu was still run by the same person, Marcel Lenoir, who lived in the same building.
[1972-CHA]
Lenôtre Lentin, Émile. Émile Lentin, Mme. Jeanne Fumal's brother; his wife worked in a factory in Limoges. Mme Fumal said they might find him at the Salvation Army doss-house. [1956-ECH] Léon. Proprietor of Chez Léon in Fécamp, where M took Pietr. [1929-30-LET] Léon was the proprieter of Au Rendez-Vous des Terre Neuvas. [1931-REN] Joseph Audiat called to the night waiter Léon for a brandy and soda. [1934-MAI] Retired dentist, first class bowls player. He had had a dentist's surgery in a smart district of Bordeaux, come to Porquerolles for a holiday, and almost never left since. Wore no collar and had his hair cut by Morin-Coiffeur; married a girl in the island. [1949-AMI] M ordered two coffees from Léon at the Brasserie Dauphine. [1970-FOL] Léonard. At that time of day, the hotel proprietors, Mme. Léonard, always with her spectacles on, was talking to the chef, and M. Léonard was emerging from the celler. [1947-VAC]
Félix Jubert explained to M that they'd be the only people at the Léonards who weren't connected to the Bridges and Highways Department.
[1950-MEM]
Léonard Léonard, Anselme. Anselme Léonard, who'd retired about 10 years earlier, had been in Bridges and Highways, as was his niece's father. [1950-MEM] Léonard, Geraldine. Anselme Léonard's wife, Geraldine, said her husband would be disappointed that M wasn't in Bridges and Highways. [1950-MEM] Léonard Lachaume. see: Lachaume, Léonard Léonard, Louise. That was how M met the girl Louise Léonard, the niece of Geraldine Léonard and Anselme Léonard, over petit-fours. She became Mme M. [1950-MEM] Léonard Planchon.
see: Planchon, Léonard
Léon-Blum, Place M crossed the Place Léon-Blum and went into the police station on the ground floor of the municipal building. [1966-NAH]
M went into an old-fashioned bar, Chez Jules, 50 yeards away and called the police of the 11th arrondissement, nearby on the Place Léon-Blum, which used to be called the Place Voltaire.
[1969-TUE]
Léon, Chez Léone. Mlle. Ageless, but probably well over 50. Her mother looked 80. ...Had been Max Kaplan's secretary. Lived with her mother. Opened a little shop in the Rue de Clignancourt in Montmartre, Le Bébé Rose selling layettes and baby things. [1952-BAN] Léon Florentin. see: Florentin, Léon Léonie Birard. see: Birard, Léonie Léon Le Glérec. see: Le Glérec, Léon Léon Moutel. see: Moutel, Léon Léonnec, Marie. Mlle. Marie Léonnec, Pierre Le Clinche's fiancée, and Jorrisen were waiting for M at his hotel. [1931-REN] Léon Papet.
see: Papet, Léon
Léon's Léontine. Mélanie Choichoi said if Félicie confided in anyone it was Ernest Forrentin's maid, Léontine. [1942-FEL] Étienne Naud asked Léontine, the cook, to bring a bowl of soup to M. [1943-CAD] Léontine Antoine. see: Antoine, Léontine Léontine Faverges. see: Faverges, Léontine Léontine Marchaud. see: Marchaud, Léontine Léontine Meurant. see: Meurant, Léontine Léontine Moreau. see: Moreau, Léontine Léontine Page. see: Page, Léontine Léontine Papet. see: Papet, Léontine Léon Wurmster. see: Wurmster, Léon Léon Zirkt.
see: Zirkt, Léon
Léopold René Delfosse's uncle had a large chocolate shop in the Rue Léopold, the most important in Liège. [1931-GAI] Lepape, François.
Jules Lapie had made his will witnessed by Ernest Forrentin and François Lepape, both of Jeanneville, in the district of Orgeval.
[1942-FEL]
Le Paradis
At 28 Fred Alfonsi was in Marseilles, supplying brothels. No convictions, but he got in trouble because of a 17-year-old girl he placed in Le Paradis of Béziers with false papers.
[1950-PIC]
Le Parc aux Cerfs Le Pecq Le Peletier, Rue Marinette Augier's brother, François Augier, married, lived in Vanves. Worked for an insurance company, Fraternal Assurance, office in Rue Le Peletier. [1963-FAN] Le Petit Var.
(newspaper) said it was because Marcellin mentioned M that he was killed, according to Ginette. (Draguignan is the capital of, and Hyères is in, Var dept.)
[1949-AMI]
Lepic Hôtel Lepic, Rue José Latourie, 71 Rue Lepic. Number 71 was fairly high up on the hill. M found a hotel, similar to the Hôtel Beauséjour, but more squalid. [1929-30-LET] M. Jacob's daugher was a housemaid in a furnished flat in the Rue Lepic, pregnant. [1930-GAL] Gaston Janin, the short man with the beard, was a sculptor in Paris, Rue Lepic. [1930-31-PHO] Jean Goyard, alias Jean Servières, was arrested Monday night at the Hôtel Bellevue, Rue Lepic. [1931-JAU] Nine Moinard had moved to a hotel on the Rue Lepic, the first hotel on the left. [1931-OMB] Albert Marcinelle lived in a small room in a hotel on Rue Lepic.... Berthe said she'd met her neighbor shopping several times in the Rue Lepic. Her husband went out at the same time hunting in the second-hand bookshops in the Boulevard Rochechouart. [1937-38-ber] Torrence said Oswald Clark and Ellen Darroman had first had dinner in a cheap restaurant on the Rue Lepic. [1939-MAJ] Jacques Pétillon lived in a furnished room on the sixth floor of a boarding house in the Rue Lepic, the Hôtel Beauséjour. [1942-FEL] Olga Poissonneau, residing at the Hôtel Beauséjour, Rue Lepic, was Maurice Tremblet's mistress. [1946-pau] M made a call to a small residential hotel in the Rue Lepic to find his informant, Fred. [1947-MOR] M took Lapointe and went by taxi to the corner of Place Blanche and Rue Lepic. M recognized on his left the little table d'hôte where the taxi driver had had lunch, opposite the Hôtel Beauséjour, the narrow doorway between a delicatessen and a grocery.... The taxi driver that Lamballe had sent was usually parked in the Place Pigalle. Had eaten lunch in a restaurant in Rue Lepic. [1949-MME] The taller of the two women walked up Rue Pigalle to Rue Lepic.... The wife of the tenant on the 5th floor of Countess von Farnheim's building had been run over by a bus as she was crossing the Place Blanche to go to her shopping in the Rue Lepic. [1950-PIC] Albert Falconi said he'd gotten Bianchi to help him. M knew he lived with Big Jeanne. He'd arrested him at least 10 times. M called Torrence to go to Big Jeanne's at Rue Lepic to arrest Bianchi. [1954-JEU] July 21, Georgette Lecoin, married, 2 children, 31, lived on Rue Lepic, going down Rue Tholozé, nearly opposite a dance hall, stabbed once. ... M told the driver to go to the upper end of Rue Lepic. They went past the Moulin de la Galette and he looked at the spot where Joséphine Simmer had been found.... March 3, Rue Lepic, a little above the Moulin de la Galette, Joséphine Simmer, born at Mulhouse, stabbed once in the back. [1955-TEN] Hortense Malletier, abortionist on the Rue Lepic, where Annette Duché had gone with Adrien Josset. 4th floor of an old building near the Moulin de la Galette. When they'd gone, Adrien had left his car on the Boulevard de Clichy, and they'd walked over to Rue Lepic. [1959-CON] Lapointe called from a bright bar on the Rue Lepic, where the customers remembered Léonard Planchon.... Antoinette Lesourd, called Sylvie, had met Planchon at a brasserie on the Rue Lepic.... Roger Prou had been living alone at the end of Rue Lepic in the Hôtel Beauséjour, before he moved into the Planchon's.... Rue Tholozé leads into the Rue Lepic, right in front of the Moulin de la Galette, a dead end at a few steps. Planchon lived by the steps in a small house in the yard. About halfway along the street, on the right-hand side, there was a little dance hall, the Bal des Copains, where he met his wife, who was a general helper at a dairy on the Rue Lepic.... M left Planchon's wife [Renée Planchon] and turned left towards Place des Abbesses, instead of going down Rue Lepic to find a taxi on Place Blanche.... They went by métro, got out at Place Blanche and began to walk slowly up Rue Lepic, which makes a large bend to the left where it meets Rue des Abbesses, and straight ahead Rue Tholozé climbs up a steep slope, then rejoins Rue Lepic by the Moulin de la Galette. [1962-CLI] Lucas said that one of the girls lived in the Rue Lepic, and had a baby... [1962-COL] There were only three blank canvases bearing the name of a supplier on the Rue Lepic. [1963-FAN] Leroy called from a restaurant on the Rue Lepic. Léon Florentin had spent the day in a move house on the Place Clichy [Place de Clichy]. [1968-ENF] Nina Lassave had worked in a lingerie shop in Rue Lepic when she first took up with Marcel Vivien.... 65b. Where Émile Hugon lived, and Vivien had rented a studio. Gabrielle Vivien sometimes came there to do vegetable shopping. M and Torrence went there by small black headquarters car.... M had noticed a branch of the Crédit Lyonnais in the Rue Lepic almost opposite Vivien's workshop, and went there with Torrence. [1971-SEU] Inspector Louis was 45, had been a widower for perhaps 15 years, but always wore black. His colleagues in the 9th called him the Widower. He lived alone, on the other side of the boulevard [Boulevard de Clichy], at the bottom of Rue Lepic. He invariably drank Vichy. [1971-IND] Lépine Prize. Scarcely a year went by that Joseph Antoine didn't submit one of his inventions in the competition for the Lépine Prize. He had been working on a revolver with an integral silencer, but died just slightly before it was finished. [1970-FOL] Le Poitou.
. They walked along the Quai de Bourbon as far as the Pont Marie, and as they crossed the bridge they could see a grayish barge with the red and white triangle of the Compagnie Générale painted on the bow of the Le Poitou, being unloaded of sand by a crane.
[1962-CLO]
Le Poker d'As Le Pommeret, Arthur. Yves Le Pommeret's brother, Arthur, ran the largest canning plant in Concarneau. [1931-JAU] Le Pommeret, Yves.
Le Pommeret said he and Mostaguen were playing cards at the Admiral Café with Jean Servières and Dr. Ernest Michoux.... Yves Le Pommeret was the vice-consul for Denmark. Dressed like a country gentleman, he had a silvery mustache.
[1931-JAU]
Le Pont du Grau L'Épopée Leprêtre.
M. Leprêtre was the head cellarman at Vin des Moines, in charge of production. Nearly 60, had had his own business. Married, two children, house in Charenton, at the end of the quay; bicycled to work. Had worked there 13 years.
[1969-VIN]
Lequeux Le Rat de Cave Lérins The unruffled surface of the Mediterranean such as one can only discover from the grand hotels of Cannes, far off, the islands of Lérins. [1938-owe] Leroy. Mme. Leroy had thought M was the Director, but when he said who he was, the son, Joseph Leroy, had taken notice. They lived near the Quai de Bercy, at Charenton. M remembered visualizing a very broad quai, with warehouses and barges unloading. A small, one-story house between a café at the corner and a big block of flats. [1945-pip]
Mme. Leroy, a stout peasant woman, dressed in black, black-haired with scarcely a trace of gray, strongly built and fierce-lloking, was beating a mattress.
[1949-DAM]
Leroy M called Leroy out of the inspectors' room and told him to follow Léon Florentin [1968-ENF] Leroy-Beaulieu. Félix Nahour's lawyer was Leroy-Beaulieu, in the Boulevard Saint-Germain. He'd done part of his law studies with Pierre Nahour. [1966-NAH] Leroy, Joseph. Mme. Leroy had thought M was the Director, but when he said who he was, the son, Joseph Leroy, had taken notice. They lived near the Quai de Bercy, at Charenton. [1945-pip] Lesage. Someone had called Paul Fabre to 28 Rue Julie, named Lesage or Lechat or Lachat. [1961-BRA]
Lesage & Gélot. Painting and Decorating, 25, Boulevard des Batignolles. Sign on the panel truck driven at the time of Nina Lassave's murder by Louis Mahossier, which had led to his being found. Lesage wasn't there, but they interviewed Gélot, who told him Louis Mahossier, 26, worked for them.
[1971-SEU]
Les Aubrais Les Caves de Bourgogne Les Chartrons Les Débats.
Joseph offered newspapers to Raymond Auger: Le Temps, Figaro, Les Débats.
[1946-obs]
Les Eglandes Les Halles It was a long walk from Saint-Lazare station [Gare Saint-Lazare]to Hôtel de Ville. Pietr took the shortest route, down the Rue du Quatre-Septembre, and through Les Halles. [1929-30-LET] Armand Lecocq d'Arneville had done all kinds of jobs, slept in Les Halles, never tried to get back to Belgium. [1930-31-PHO] Johann Radek had even worked at Les Halles, unloading vegetables to earn a few centimes as a student. [1930-31-TET] Else Anderson said the trucks going by to the Central Market (Les Halles) in Paris all day made a lot of noise. [1931-NUI] Mme M said she didn't see the man that morning since she'd gone to Les Halles. [1937-38-amo] The taxi had to cross Les Halles, and finally reached the embankment. [1937-38-eto] The man [Stephan Strevzki] prowled under the arc lamps of Les Halles, among the heaps of cabbage. [1939-hom] At 18 Jean Ramuel had worked as a bookkeeper in Les Halles. [1939-MAJ] Mme M could even hear, or thought she could, from the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, the little train arriving at Les Halles. [1941-SIG] More than once Jacques Pétillon had had hard times, been forced to work nights as a vegetable porter in Les Halles. Several times he'd been reduced to pawning his violin. [1942-FEL] There were not many sounds to be heard outside. From time to time a truck driving in from the outskirts to Les Halles. [1947-MOR] M had been tempted to to walk home the long way, by way of Les Halles, to enjoy the smell of the spring fruits and vegetables. [1948-PRE] Before they left Paris for the investigation of Marcellin's murder, M took Inspector Pyke to "the Market" for tripes à la mode de Caen and crêpes Suzettes, brought in attractive copper chafing-dishes. [1949-AMI] M had covered Les Halles at night, Place Maubert, the quays and under the quays.... The Sébastopol district, which, particularly in the Les Halles area, was frequented by the lowest class of women. There young servant girls of sixteen, newly arrived from Brittany, served their apprenticeship.... The fresh-faced girl paying her first visit to a dance-hall, who will wind up outside some hotel in Les Halles or the Bastille district... [1950-MEM] Just as they were about to get the man, a vegetable truck, probably on its way to Les Halles, rounded the corner and the man jumped on. [1951-LOG] Émile Paulus had met Jef Van Damme in a bar near Les Halles nearly a year earlier. [1951-MEU] M remembered how, at the age of 20, he had first arrived in Paris, disturbed at the ferment. In some "strategic points" - Les Halles, Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], the Bastille, and Boulevard Saint-Martin - the ferment was even more intense. [1952-BAN] The Chief asked M if he'd seen the manager of the bank on the Rue de Rivoli, near Les Halles, where a clerk was suspected of dishonesty. [1953-ECO] M and Janvier headed out towards the Place de Vintimille. Ordinarily they would have gone over to Les Halles for some onion soup. Janvier took the wheel of one of the little cars.... M went into the Duty Room at the Quai des Orfèvres and asked Lucas if he'd had any calls. Lucas said there'd only been one, about the theft of cheeses from Les Halles. [1954-JEU] Jacques Fleury had once been seen in Les Halles, counting cabbages coming off a truck. ... The concierge at 63, Rue Vaneau told Janvier of another friend of Blanche Lamotte's, married to a commissioner in Les Halles called Hariel, who lived on Rue de Courcelles. [1954-MIN] That evening they'd done Paris by Night: They'd gone to Les Halles, Place Pigalle, Rue de Lappe and the Champs-Élysées, their tickets including the cost of a drink at each place.... Ferdinand Fumal had offices in the Rue Rambuteau, near Les Halles, and others at La Villette, near the slaughter houses.... Émile Lentin said he sometimes worked in Les Halles, or on road repairs. [1956-ECH] Gaston Meurant walked towards the Grands Boulevards, then along Rue Montmartre to Les Halles. [1959-ASS] Léa said the Doc (François Keller) didn't go to Les Halles, but was a sandwich man. [1962-CLO] Janvier told M the car used in the jewel robbery had been found in a side street in Les Halles. [1965-PAT] The bus was at the corner of Rue Rambuteau, not far from Les Halles, when François Ricain, who had just stolen M's wallet, jumped off, and was soon lost in the Rue des Blancs-Manteaux. François Ricain said after his wedding they all went to dinner in Les Halles. [1966-VOL] A policeman marched Léon Florentin off towards the station at Les Halles. [1968-ENF] Robert Bureau left home at 17 and came to Paris. He unloaded vegetables at Les Halles. [1969-TUE] M said Gilbert Pigou might be at Les Halles. He wondered where all the down-and-outs would go in a few months time when the market was moved to Rungis. [1969-VIN] Léontine Antoine said she missed Les Halles very much, now that the markets had been moved. [1970-FOL] Marcel Vivien's murder was in building in an obscure little cul-de-sac near Les Halles. In August, 1965, the fruit and vegetable market had not yet been transferred from Paris to Rungis. [1971-SEU]
Manuel Mori had previously worked for a buyer in Les Halles. Jo Mori had spent three years in an architect's office.... Rue du Caire was on the edge of Les Halles, where the buildings had not yet begun to be demolished, but where all activity had ceased and been moved to Rungis.
[1971-IND]
Les Iris Les Loges All of Yport was at Rose Trochu's funeral, plus some from Les Loges, Vaucottes, Étretat and Fécamp. [1949-DAM] Les Marguerites. The name of Émile Gallet's house in Saint-Fargeau, at the end of the main avenue in the new development estate, about the only finished building, vaguely English in style, red-tiled and elaborately ornamented. [1930-GAL] Les Nonettes. The crime of Jan 19 was at a farm belonging to the widow Mme. Rival, called Les Nonettes, probably as it was built on the ruins of a former convent, about 5 km from the village of Goderville, which has a railway station at which slow trains stop, on the Paris-Brussels line. [1947-MOR] Le Soleil. Aurore Gallet's father, secretary of the last Bourbon prince, was editor of the Legitimist paper Le Soleil. [1930-GAL] Lesourd, Antoinette.
Called Sylvie, she'd met Léonard Planchon at a brasserie on the Rue Lepic. Had been married, and had a daughter. In the summer she'd worked in Cannes, because the American fleet had been in. Came back to Paris in September, and had met Planchon in October. She usually used a hotel on the Rue Lepic. She walked Planchon home the night he was murdered, when he was too drunk to stand.
[1962-CLI]
Les Quatre-Vents Les Sables-d'Olonne The Saint-Michel went to Concarneau, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Saint-Jean-de-Luz ... [1932-POR] Étienne Naud had built a house in Les Sables-d'Olonne.... Apart from holidays in Les Sables-d''Olonne, somebody like Geneviève Naud might never leave the town. [1943-CAD] A waiter came to see M who'd recognized Maurice Tremblet's photo in the paper, but he'd gone away to Les Sables-d'Olonne for the summer and had forgotten. He'd worked in a café on the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue de Seine, and seen Tremblet there playing billiards with a man named Théodore, with ginger hair and a moustache, who M learned from M. Mauvre at Couvreur et Bellechasse had worked for them at the same time, as Théodore Ballard. [1946-pau] The past season Joseph Daumale was in La Bourboule, where he'd built a villa. Married to Anne-Marie Penette, of Les Sables-d'Olonne. three children. [1946-NEW] It was a narrow street, like all the streets in the old quarter of Les Sables-d'Olonne.... Behind the harbor there was a maze of narrow streets into which M plunged every day. The houses had only two stories, sometimes one. Often, peculiar to Les Sables, the cellar served as a kitchen, connected to the street by a stone staircase. The girl probably lived in that district. [1947-VAC]
M and Mme M discussed where they might go, the banks of the Loire, where M could fish, or Hôtel des Roches-Noires at Les Sables-d'Olonne, where they had once spent an excellent holiday. They decided on Les Sables, but all the rooms were booked. But M left that as his forwarding address, and decided to spend his vacation in Paris.... The newpaper reported that a reporter had gone to the Hôtel des Roches-Noires in Les Sables-d'Olonne, but no trace of M had been found. Janvier had said as far as he knew M was still in the Vendée.
[1956-AMU]
Les Ternes Lesueur Lapointe and Bonfils had already started interrogating, and Torrence and Lesueur had just arrived. [1956-ECH] Someone had to be sent to relieve Aristide Fumel at the Hôtel Lambert. Not a member of his "personal team", but Lourtie or Lesueur. Neither was available, so Baron went over. [1961-PAR] Le Temps.
Joseph offered newspapers to Raymond Auger: Le Temps, Figaro, Les Débats. He read the Le Temps.
[1946-obs]
Le Touquet Lett, Pietr the.
see: Pietr
Levallois Levallois Yvonne Moncin's sister was married to a garage owner at Levallois. They had a brother in Africa. [1955-TEN]
Where the factory of the man M remembered who disappeared [disappearance] like Marcel Vivien was located.
[1971-SEU]
Levallois-Perret Lognon said he'd spoken to a taxi driver outside the night-club Le Grelot, Léon Zirkt, 53, who lived at Levallois-Perret. [1954-JEU] Levancher, Justin. [typo for Justin Lavancher.] [1965-PAT] Levantine. M said to Germain Cageot that Barnabé acted as liaison between Paris and Marseilles, between Cageot and the Levantines who shipped the drugs to France. [1934-MAI] Georges Peskine, a taxi driver, naturalized Russian, picked up three men near Gare Saint-Lazare and took them to the corner of Rue de Turenne and Rue des Francs-Bourgeois Saturday night. Said the most important of the three was a Levantine (Sarkistian, aka Levine, aka Schwartz). [1949-MME] Levassor.
M. Anna Gorskin's father asked her in a letter to check on M. Levassor, 63 Rue de Hauteville, who owed him money.
[1929-30-LET]
Le Vésinet
For a while, after he had just joined the Police Force, Le Vésinet had seemed to him to be the most beautiful place in the world. It was only a step from Paris, but before 1914 motor-cars were rare. The rich people still had their country houses there.
[1949-DAM]
Le Vieux Normand Levine. The manager of the Hôtel Beauséjour said M. Levine, with a boy and nursemaid (Gloria Lotti) had stayed there. Said he was French, from Bordeaux, she thought. aka Schwartz. [1949-MME] Levinson, Art.
Art Levinson was the agent of an American comedy star who'd come over to make a film in France; he'd been playing poker with John Arnold.
[1957-VOY]
Levras Levy. M imagined a letter from Samuel Meyer. "To Mr. N.A. Levy, Bucharest . I am dispatching 200 rare stamps of Jugoslavia, Rumania and other countries... I hope to shortly find the Greek ones you were asking about." Of course, they wouldn't be postage stamps... [1932-FOU] Levy, Jacob.
Jacob Ephraim Levy, alias Ulrich [Old Ulrich], 62, formerly of Upper Silesia, second-hand dealer in the Rue des Blancs-Manteaux, suspected of usury, disappeared... was the report M found in the old files.
[1931-GUI]
Levy-Valensi Lewis LH Lherbier, Philippe. In the corner was a Louis XV desk, writing paper with the name Philippe Lherbier, the leather merchant on the Rue Royale. About 60, with a thick head of snow-white hair. His villa, the "Golden Crown" in Jouy-en-Josas was the one that was burgled... M received a wallet from Philippe Lherbier, which he returned. [1969-TUE] Lhériteau. Louis Fillou said Josaphat had told about the money at Albert Retailleau's mother's in front of Avrard, Lhériteau, and little Croman, as well as himself. [1943-CAD] Lhoest.
M. Lhoest, notary, Jean Chabot's employer.
[1931-GAI]
Lhomond, Rue
They were a few yards from Rue Lhomond, and M and Lucas made their way to Mlle. Clément's boarding house.... Janvier had been standing watch in the Rue Lhomond when he was shot, keeping a lookout for Émile Paulus. When the police ambulance had arrived he'd been unconscious.... There was a small bistro further along, on the other side, with two tables on the terrace and not bad food, which the inspectors watching Mlle. Clément's ate at.... The Rue Lhomond sloped gently down to the lights of the Rue Mouffetard. Somewhere behind the houses could be heard the deadened noise of cars on the Boulevard Saint-Michel.
[1951-MEU]
Lhoste et Pépin LI LIA LIB LIC LID LIE LIL LIM LIN LIO LIP LIS LIT LIV LIZ Lia. Willy Marco said the two girls had been Suzy [Suzanne Verdier], and Lia [Lia Lauwenstein], at the Coupole every night, lived in a hotel at the corner of the Rue de la Grande-Chaumière. [1930-PRO] Lia Lauwenstein.
see: Lauwenstein, Lia
Libart Libera Nos Liberation. Harry Pills said he knew the doctor from right after the Liberation, when he'd been in the American Army. A doctor in the Boulevard Saint-Michel. [1951-LOG] M told Angelot of a case where a man had killed his neighbor with a 6.35, because he'd been playing his radio too loud. He was a disabled ex-serviceman. The neighbor was a foreigner, a tailor; he'd been in trouble after the Liberation... [1958-TEM] After the Liberation the French Forces of the Interior hunted for Lemke. [1962-CLO] Liberge, Jean. The carter of the Providence. About 60, thick white hair. Born in Lille, 1869, according to his papers, but actually Jean Évariste Darchambaux, born at Boulogne, 55. [1930-PRO] Liberté. The purser on the Liberté had told M that you couldn't invent anything fresh to amuse them, as they had their habits. [1957-VOY] Liberté.
Intran [Intransigeant], Liberté, Presse, Paris Soir... Names of the papers called out by M. Jacob at his stall on the corner of Rue Clignancourt and Boulevard Rochechouart.
[1930-GAL]
Liberty Bar Liboureau.
Louis Fillou said he thought Liboureau's son had been at the Lion d'Or the night before.
[1943-CAD]
Libourne Late that afternoon M took the train at the Gare d'Orsay for Villefranche-en-Dordogne. There was a change at Libourne, except for the sleeping cars. [1932-FOU] Librairie Spéciale.
see: Special Bookshop
Libreville Ernest Combarieu's last residence was listed as Libreville, Gabon. [1946-obs] François Keller had gone to Africa, in Gabon, at a station some hundreds of miles from Libreville. [1962-CLO] License Bureau. The head of the License Bureau wanted a nightclub shut down. [1961-BRA] Licensed Rentals. M had Lucas go down to Licensed Rentals to check on Stanley Hobson. [1963-FAN] Lida Wilton.
see: Wilton, Lida
Lido Lido Lido Mortimer-Levingston led an exhausting life, putting in regular appearances at Deauville, Miami, the Lido, Paris, Cannes and Berlin... [1929-30-LET]
Aline was carrying a bag with the name of a lingerie shop on the Lido, and another from a shop on the Rue Marbeuf.
[1964-DEF]
Liège Hortense Canelle, the woman on the Providence said everyone knew them, from Liège to Lyon. [1930-PRO] There was a name-tab on the second suit, Roger Morcel, tailor, Rue Haute-Sauvenière, Liège. [1930-31-PHO] Liège, the setting of GAI. The Bécasse restaurant behind the Royal Theater where Ephraim Graphopoulos (and M, watching him) had dinner.... In Liège some papers had a morning edition, but the most important one came out at 2:00.... It was the traditional thing to do in Liège in the evening, a stroll along Rue du Pont d'Avroy... In the morning, housewives with pails of water were sluicing down their small front sidewalks. Wagons and carts with vegetables and coal were drawn up here and there. [1931-GAI] The Étoile Polaire was a filthy barge owned by a Belgian from Tilleur, near Liège. [1932-FLA] Things were always happening on the 106, a train which leaves Berlin at 11 a.m. with one or two coaches from Warsaw, passes through Liège at 23:44, and reaches Erquelines at 1:57 a.m.... At Liège Adolphe Bonvoisin had seen Lena Leinbach talking to Otto Braun. [1936-arr]
When Étienne Gouin had gone to Belgium to operate, as he'd gone to the US and India, he stayed in a hotel in Liège where he bought a small automatic.
[1953-TRO]
Liège, Old Liesbeth Popinga. see: Popinga, Liesbeth Liévin. Dr. Liévin, who'd been called in when Joséphine Crozier had her attack, was 27, with bright red hair. [1937-38-bay] Liewens. Liewens told M that in Holland policemen didn't meet girls at night in the dark. [1931-HOL] Liewens, Beetje.
18, daughter of a farmer who bred pedigree cows. Been to Paris twice, good French.
[1931-HOL]
Lilas Lilas, Porte des
M realized the Porte de Champerret-Porte des Lilas line had been convenient for Maurice Tremblet. He could go direct for Villiers to Sentier.
[1946-pau]
Lilas, Rue des Rue des Chênes, Rue des Lilas, Rue des Hêtres... The streets in the new development at Juvisy hadn't had time to grow the noble trees they were named after. [1952-BAN] Lili. James said his wife was coming with Lili and the others. [1931-GUI] The young barmaid, Lili, was joking with everyone. [1937-38-noy] Germaine Laboine called herself Liliane Laboine, and the croupiers called her Lili. [1954-JEU] Liliane Laboine. see: Laboine, Liliane Liliane Pigou. see: Pigou, Liliane Lili Bourcier. see: Bourcier, Lili Lili France. see: France, Lili Lili Godreau.
see: Godreau, Lili
Lille Jean Liberge, the carter of the Providence, according to his papers, born in Lille, 1869. [1930-PRO] Ernest Michoux was divorced; his former wife married a nortary in Lille. [1931-JAU] Adolphe Bonvoisin, a Frenchman from Lille, offered to help with the translation. [1936-arr] Information had come from Lille, where certain villages are Polish enclaves, that it was Stan the Killer's gang. [1937-38-sta] Had they been in the Midi, M would have played bowls, or in Lille, skittles... [1938-ceu] On the studio portraits, Zebio was called Eusebio Fualdès, but his real name was Edgar Fagonet, born in Lille.... Edgar Fagonet's father, Albert Fagonet, had been foreman at the Lecoeur Works in Lille. [1939-MAJ] Jim Parson said he'd lived in Paris, Lille, Marseilles, Nice, Côte d'Azur... [1946-NEW] Mlle. Clément had had the boarding house ten years. A native of Lille, more accurately, Roubaix. Her father had been a waiter at the Brasserie Flamande at Roubaix for nearly forty years. She'd started as a cashier there at twenty. [1951-MEU] M wondered if Alfred Jussiaume had taken a train from the Gare du Nord to Lille. [1951-GRA] The son-in-law of the last Mullerbach had Jeanfils check to see who'd bought the buttons. There were about 40 tailors, 4 at Lyons, 2 at Bordeaux, 1 at Lille, a few in other towns, the rest in Paris. [1955-TEN] Ferdinand Fumal said "Economic Butchers" was also his, as well as Northern Butchers out of Lille, and Associated Butchers of the Rue Rambuteau in Paris. [1956-ECH]
Judge Ancelin had been appointed to Paris five months earlier. Had spent a long time in Lille.
[1965-PAT]
Lille, Rue de
M called Dr. Bloy, who lived around the corner from Nathalie Sabin-Levesque in the Rue de Lille.
[1972-CHA]
Limbourg
Anna Peeters' father was born somewhere beyond Limbourg, near the Dutch frontier. They came from the north of Belgium.
[1932-FLA]
Limoges M had put Janvier on the Stork case, and he had located Lucette, Émile Paulus' girlfriend for a while. Both had been born in Limoges. [1951-MEU] Émile Lentin, Mme. Jeanne Fumal's brother; his wife worked in a factory in Limoges. She said they might find him at the Salvation Army doss-house. [1956-ECH] An elderly lawyer was discussing precedents, in Limoges in 1885 and Poitiers in 1923, in which the preliminary investigation had been recast at the public trial. [1959-ASS] Lina Wiemers.
see: Wiemers, Évelina
Lindbergh Line. Singer with Billy Louette's group at the Bongo. [1970-FOL] Line Marcia. see: Marcia, Line Line Polin. see: Marcia, Line L'Intransigeant. Intran, Liberté, Presse, Paris Soir... Names of the papers called out by M. Jacob at his stall on the corner of Rue Clignancourt and Boulevard Rochechouart. [1930-GAL] A newsboy came hawking L'Intransigeatnt, "L'Intran!". [1939-hom] Gérard Pardon had a copy of L'Intransigeant with him. [1940-CEC] Lion de Belfort.
see: Belfort, Lion of
Lion d'Or Lion d'Or, Hôtel du Lion, Hôtel du Lionne.
Ernest Malik's Great Danes were called Satan and Lionne.
[1945-FAC]
Lion-sur-Mer Lioran. The claim for damages was being heard. Attorney Lioran had made a short statement. [1959-ASS] Liorant. M had met Doctor Liorant, of Rue Rabelais, Fontenay-le-Comte, but he refused to talk about Martin Duché. [1959-CON] Liotard, Philippe. Maître. Frans Steuvels' lawyer. Not much over 30. Had assisted a famous lawyer for five years, just setting up on his own. Lived in a bachelor apartment in the Rue Bergère, next to a house of ill repute.... Philippe Liotard's grandfather was the Comte de Liotard.... 4th floor left. M had Lapointe break in to his apartment to search for the suitcase. [1949-MME] Lipchitz, Sonia. Jehan d'Oulmont had taken up with Sonia Lipchitz, who at 23 had been the mistress of a number of men. [1936-pei] Lipmann.
Pietr was thought to be the head of an international gang, traced at various times to Paris, Amsterdam (the Van Heuvel case), Berne (the United Shipbuilders case), Warsaw (the Lipmann case), and others.
[1929-30-LET]
Lipp's Lipschitz, Carl. The hotel keeper at the Hôtel du Lion d'Or said the most important one was named Carl, be he couldn't remember his last name. The youngest one was called Pietr, 16 or 17.... Carl Lipschitz's fingerprints were found on file. He was born in Bohemia, came into France illegally five years earlier, one of a group of agricultural laborers who were directed to big farms in Picardy and Artois. Two years earlier he'd been accused of raping and murdering a little girl in Saint-Aubin.... Pietr had shot Carl Lipschitz near the hospital, and a plain-clothes man had shot Pietr in the legs. He'd been standing in the darkness in the Rue de Sèvres, about 100 yards from the hospital when he'd heard them. [1947-MOR] Lisca, Freddo. The owner of the Eucalyptus was Freddo Lisca, known as Freddo, who'd been a bartender on Rue de Douai in Montmartre for a long time. Freddo had married a pretty girl, an ex-striptease dancer, and they'd built The Eucalyptus. [1959-ASS] Lise. 23. Soft blonde hair. Mme. Parendon's maid. Mlle. Antoinette Vague said she was "an ordinary girl like me. Both from the provinces. I'm from a small town, and she's from the country." Ferdinand Fauchois said she had a different boyfriend every week. [1968-HES] Lise Forlacroix. see: Forlacroix, Lise Lise Gendreau-Balthazar.
see: Gendreau-Balthazar, Lise
Lisieux The trainman called out "Lisieux. Three minutes' stop."... The man had bought a yellow touring car, number W, like all cars for sale.. He'd asked for information about the road to Paris via Lisieux and Evreux... [1932-POR]
The woman who recognized Arlette's picture came from Lisieux, as did Arlette.
[1950-PIC]
Lithuania Motte lived in the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, the Marais district, with a few historic houses, mainly small artisans, from Poland, Hungary or Lithuania. [1964-DEF] Little Albert. M spoke to M. Jean, the proprieter of the Cadran. He hadn't known Albert Rochain, known as Little Albert. He said that an old waiter, Ernest, had known him, but he'd gone back to the Dordogne. [1947-MOR] Little John. John Maura was better known as Little John, because he was so short. [1946-NEW] Little Louis. from Belleville. One of the pictures of criminals M showed to Emma. [1941-SIG] Little Sisters of the Poor.
Saint-Hubert said he was in the apartment of René Josselin, 37B Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, just next door to the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
[1961-BRA]
Liverpool Lize LO LOB LOC LOD LOF LOG LOI LOL LOM LON LOO LOP LOR LOS LOT LOU LOW LOY Lober . Janvier said Lober could relieve Lapointe, as he wasn't busy.... Lober was about M's age, but had never been promoted. [1953-TRO]Locard .
[Dr. Edmond Locard (1877-1966), a student of Bertillon, and the director of the laboratory at Lyon, France, established the first rules of the minimum number of minutiae necessary for fingerprint identification. He is also known as the father of Poreoscopy, which is the study of pores that appear in the fingerprint ridge, and their use in the individualization process. He believed that when two objects came into contact with the other, each of these objects would leave or transfer particles to the other. This became known as "Locard's Exchange Principle". Locard was also credited with setting up the worlds first modern crime laboratory in the beginning of the 20th century. His work formed the basis for what is widely regarded as a cornerstone of the forensic sciences.]
M, like everyone else, used the wonderful techniques devised by Bertillon, Reiss, Locard and others.
[1929-30-LET]
Professor Locard, Moers' boss, knew more about handwriting, Moers told Maigret.
[1930-GAL]
Lodgings Squad.
A young detective from the Lodgings Squad, responsible for the Saint-Antoine district, which swarms with Poles, had noticed a suspicious-looking group, including a one-eyed man and a bearded giant.
[1937-38-sta]
Lofoten Raymond Grandmaison [Jean Martineau] said they'd gone to the Lofoten Islands. Then to Copenhagen, Hamburg. [1932-POR] Lofty.
The appointment slip read: "Ernestine Micou, alias "Lofty" (now Jussiaume), ... who you arrested 17 years ago on Rue de la Lune..."
[1951-GRA]
Loges, Les Loges, Les Loges, Rue des Lognon Every time Lognon had taken up a case he had been unfortunate. He lived in the Place Constantin-Pecqueur, 300 meters from the Michel Goldfinger's apartment.... Inspector Lognon, whom his colleagues called "The Grouser" because he was always in a sour temper, was checking the neighborhood to see if anyone had heard the shot that killed Michel Goldfinger.... Lognon was married to the most shrewish wife in the world, ill most of the time. [1946-mal] Detective Lognon was upstairs with the coroner at Arlette's. He was from the Saint-Georges station.... Lognon's colleagues called him "Old Ungracious" [l'inspecteur Malgracieux]. [1950-PIC] Mme. Lognon called M. He had only met her once, at their apartment on Place Constantin-Pecqueur, in Montmartre. Since then he no longer resented the man, although he still avoided him as much as possible, but pitied him from the bottom of his heart. She told M she'd tell him about it even if it made Lognon furious -- the gangsters had come again. Lognon belonged to the 2nd Precinct in the 9th arrondissement, and his office was at the police station on Rue de la Rochefoucauld.... Lognon's was an ordinary-looking apartment house, about a century old, with no elevator. M climbed the 5 flights. Mme. Lognon was short and thin, with untidy hair, wearing a dressing gown a hideous shade of mauve. The apartment was tiney, a dining room, parlor, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, everything on a diminutive scale. A black cat on the bed. [1951-LOG] M had completely forgotten that the Second District was Lognon's sector - Lognon, who his colleagues called "Old Grouch". But maybe Lognon wasn't on night duty in the Rue de La Rochefoucauld.... Lognon was the great authority on the Place Blanche and Place Pigalle area.... Detective-Sergeant Lognon... invariably wore mousey grey suits, which were never pressed, grey overcoat, hat an ugly shade of brown. He;d given up smoking years ago, when his wife first fell ill and said it made her cough. [1954-JEU] The most familiar of the three figures who got out of the taxi was Lognon, the inspector from the 18th, who looked even smaller and thinner than usual. It was the first time M had ever seen him wearing a straw hat. [1955-TEN] Aristide Fumel said he'd seen Duffieux of the 18th. He worked with "your friend Inspector Lognon." When Lognon saw Honoré Cuendet's photo he put it in his pocket. He went to ask questions in the bars and little restaurants in the Rue Caulaincourt and the Place Constantin-Pequeur.... If Lognon had known how interested M was in the case he would have followed up, for he was perhaps the most intuitive member of the Paris police force - the most persistent too, and the most desperately anxious for success. Had he been dogged by bad luck, or did the fault lie in his conviction that fate was against him? At any rate he'd end his career as an inspector in the 18th, just as Aristide Fumel would end his in the 16th. [1961-PAR] Lapointe came to M's house with news that Lognon, whom M was fond of, had been seriously hurt, and had been taken to Bichat for an emergency operation. He'd been shot twice, in the stomach and just below the shoulder blade. It'd been on the sidewalk on Avenue Junot. His colleagues in the 18th were handling the case. The concierge had heard him whisper "apparition" (fantôme)... Known to some as "Inspector Grumpy", M thought of Lognon as "Inspector Hapless". Small, thin, never without a head cold. He had a perpetually ailing wife, Solange Lognon, who referred to him as "Charles". [1963-FAN] Lognon, Charles. see: Lognon Lognon, Solange.
Mme M thought of Solange Lognon, Lognon's wife, and M said he'd drop her there, at the Place Constantin-Pecqueur, a red brick building with yellow brick trim where Lognon had lived for 20 years.... Mme. Lognon's doctor confided to Mme M that she was not at all as sick as she claimed to be, but played the helpless invalid as revenge for her husband's failure to advance in his job. She told Mme M that when she became a widow her pension wouldn't even let her keep the apartment she'd had for 25 years.
[1963-FAN]
Loing
Four days later, at an inn on the banks of the Loing, M received a postcard with a view of the Quai des Orfèvres, written in block letters: "Thanks, Chief".
[1956-AMU]
Loire M's father was a game-keeper on one of the oldest estates in the Loire Valley. [1929-30-LET] It was 7:00 in the evening when the train stopped at Tracy-Sancerre, then still half an hour's walk for M and Aurore Gallet on the main road, and over the suspension bridge on the Loire. [1930-GAL] On Sundays there were the tourists heading for the Loire and the Sologne. [1931-NUI] M said something in Breton, told them his home town was in the Loire, but he'd gone to school at Nantes. [1932-POR] Their furniture had already arrived at the cottage on the banks of the Loire....Then comes the Upper Seine, which takes you to Burgundy, the Loire, Lyons, and Marseilles. [1933-ECL] There was an enormous moon, and the Loire was a mass of silver spangles. [1934-MAI] M had been born 40 km away, on the banks of the Loire. [1936-lar] M was not thinking of adventure that July morning on the banks of the Loire. Mme M was as surprised as he to hear a car drive up. [1937-38-not] Now he was counting the hours, dreaming constantly of the house on the banks of the Loire, where Mme M was already fixing things up for his arrival. [1937-38-eto] M, in retirement at Meung-sur-Loire, on the banks of the Loire, received a letter from a young girl [Berthe], who claims her life is threatened. [1937-38-ber] It seemed like an evening like any other, with the sunset on the sands of the Loire. [1938-ceu] It rains along the banks of the Loire just as well as it does in America. [1946-NEW] Désiré Loiseau said he felt anything beyond the Loire was the south of France. [1947-MOR] M told Julien Chabot he'd bought a little house on the Loire for his retirement. [1953-PEU] On the second floor, the Comte de Tavera and his family had gone shooting for the season at their château somewhere south of the Loire. [1953-TRO] Which was Louise Bourges keenest about, marriage to Félix or an inn on the Loire? [1956-ECH] M and Mme M discussed where they might go, the banks of the Loire, where M could fish, or Hôtel des Roches-Noires at Les Sables-d'Olonne, where they had once spent an excellent holiday. They decided on Les Sables, but all the rooms were booked. [1956-AMU] Their future, during the three weeks they had spent on the Loire, had begun to materialize when they finally bought the house where they would spend their declining years.... M and Janvier crossed Place Dauphine to the brasserie that had become a kind of annex to Police Headquarters. They stopped at the bar while waiting for a table to become vacant. M had the veal... There was a mall wine from the Loire, very near Meung [Meung-sur-Loire] and the house like a rectory. [1959-ASS] M felt somehow as if his real life was far away on the banks of the Loire. [1961-BRA] A connoisseur would have identified the rather tart scent of the ordinary wines of the Loire. [1962-COL] Marcel Landry's father was postmaster general at Angers or Tours, or some large town on the Loire. [1964-DEF] That evening they went for a walk, going as far as the Loire. [1969-TUE] Loireau.
A considerable quantity of digitalis had been found in Éveline Jave's intestines. Prof. Loireau provided some comments. Rather than digitalis, he said, which for her was counter-indicated, she'd needed camphor or Pressyl, fashionable nowadays.
[1956-AMU]
Loire, Hôtel de la Loi, Rue de la 53, Rue de la Loi, the Émile Chabot's address in Liège. House, two-story. [1931-GAI] Loiseau. Maître Loiseau was Louis Mahossier's lawyer. 38, Boulevard Beaumarchais. M called him to have him present at Mahossier's second interrogation. He was not in his office, but at the Palais de Justice. M finally reached him, and arranged for him to be in M's office by 5:00. [1971-SEU] Loiseau, Bobonne. Désiré Loiseau told his wife, Bobonne, to bring drinks for M and Lucas. She brought them gin. [1947-MOR] Loiseau, Céline. Céline was Roger Couchet's girlfriend. Stayed with him in the Hôtel Pigalle. They'd been together about three weeks.... Céline was born at Saint-Amand-Montrond. Had a prostitute's card and came fairly regularly for inspections. [1931-OMB] Loiseau, Désiré. M. Jean told M the former proprieter of the Cadran lived in Joinville, in a villa opposite the Île d'Amour, beyond the bridge, with a boathouse in front. It was called "The Nest", and the man's name was Désiré Loiseau, the Bird. Désiré Loiseau told his wife, Bobonne Loiseau, to bring drinks for M and Lucas. He asked Lucas if he was Belgian, since he'd known a Lucas at school. He said he thought Albert Rochain's mother was Belgian too, as he himself was. He told the story of the unhappy waiter who'd always asked customers if they had an ulcer too. [1947-MOR] Lola.
One of the addresses in Marcel Basso's book was Lola, Bar des Eglantiers, 18 Rue Montaigne, crossed out with blue chalk.
[1931-GUI]
Lomanstraat Lombard, Jef.
Jef Lombard arrived at Maurice Belloir's. He still lived in Liège. Used to be a painter, drew for the newspapers, then worked as a photo-engraver.
[1930-31-PHO]
Lombras Lombras, Gérard. Newsman hanging out at the Quai des Orfèvres, an old hand at petty scandals, made a nightly trip to the Quai. Followed M from the laboratory. Almost M's age. [1952-REV] Lombras, Germain.
Germain Lombras, a piano teacher who lived in the Rue Picpus, came to Gaston Meurant's shop looking for a frame for an Italian gouache, a Neapolitan landscape he'd bought that day from an antique shop.
[1959-ASS]
Lombroso Lomel. Lomel, a reporter from the Ouest-Éclair came up to M in the Hôtel de France dining room, assumed M was there about the Robert de Courçon case. Red-haired, about 40, large ruddy cheeks. (cf. Pecqueur).... There wasn't a trace of remorse on his baby face or in his bright-blue eyes. [1953-PEU] London.
Billy Louette had been in London the week before, with his group, looking for engagements. They'd gone to Copenhagen too.
[1970-FOL]
London Willy Marco said they'd come from Paris, after a month in London. [1930-PRO] The telegram from Antwerp: Isaac Goldberg, 45. Traveled weekly to Amsterdam, London, Paris. Rue de Campine, Borgerhout. married, two children. [1931-NUI] Instead of going to Le Bourget, to fly to London, Ephraim Graphopoulos went to the Gare du Nord and bought a train ticket to Berlin. [1931-GAI] Mme. Martini said they'd have gone anywhere... Brussels, London... [1932-LIB] On the other side of the river was the rectangular outline of the vast concrete buildings of the Magasins Généraux. and two cargo boats, from London and Amsterdam. [1933-ECL] M knew that this case would provide the subject for long studies in the criminal archives, not only of Paris, but also of London, Berlin, Vienna, even New York. [1936-lar] M. Motte had written to all the collectors he knew of miniature ivories about the thefts, in Paris and London. [1937-38-not] M scanned the list of guests for where they came from: London, Amiens, Compiègne, Marseilles, Mercy-le-Haut. [1937-38-eto] Mme M had long wanted to see England. M said he could look up his colleagues at Scotland Yard he'd worked with during the war during their two weeks in London. [1937-38-man] M. Saft, a very distinguished Polish young man in Suite 133, requested a wake-up call at four a.m., and left the Excelsior at five to take the plane to London." [1938-owe] At At 32 Jean Ramuel left for Guayaquil, Ecuador, worked at a Franco-English mining company. There met Marie Deligeard, and together they went to London. [1939-MAJ] M was expecting a phone call from London about The Commodore, an international crook who'd been located in a grand hotel in the Champs-Élysées.... Scotland Yard called with the information that The Commodore had not been seen in London for two years. [1946-mal] Valentine Besson and her husband traveled to Cannes and Nice, then London, Scotland, Turkey and Egypt. [1949-DAM] When the Chief of Police visited the Lord Mayor of London and Scotland Yard, he found that they knew of M. [1949-AMI] Alfred Moss had been prosecuted first in London, where he claimed to be Swiss. A jewel case had disappeared from the room of an American lady who'd called him to interpret a letter she'd received from Germany.... In Moss's trunk was a set of tails and a dinner jacket with the label of a big London tailor, another dress suit made in Milan. [1949-MME] M went to London following Alain Lagrange and Jeanne Jeanne Debul; spent nearly almost his time in the Savoy Hotel. Managed to see Charing Cross, Trafalgar Square, Picadilly Circus; mentioned Regent Street. [1952-REV] Julius Van Cram wrote from London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, New York, and sent money to Germaine Laboine. [1954-JEU] Robert Courmont had been an ambassador for more than thirty years, in Tokyo and in London, a member of the Institute. [1954-MIN] The English papers had pointed out that Mrs. Muriel Britt was 58, thin and stringy, with a tired face and body. She ran a boarding house in Kilburn Lane, in West London. [1956-ECH] Philippe Jave had said he was going for a drive to Monte Carlo, but the staff at the Nice Airport had noticed his car. He'd taken a British Airways Viscount, delayed by engine trouble, to London, where he'd got a plane for Paris.... Later, in the Place de la Bastille, outside a café, Mme M said she wondered how they managed in New York and London without outdoor cafés. [1956-AMU] Colombani checked the flights. 315 for London; Stuttgart; Cairo, Beirut... P Potteret; New York by Pan American, Pittsburg... Piroulet... no Louise Paverini.... David Ward had a suite at the Hôtel George-V, one in London, another at the Carlton in Cannes, all rented by the year. [1957-VOY] Sooner or later, Police Headquarters would be rung up by some famous person just returned from Hollywood, London, Rome or Cannes, to find their flat had been broken into, the refrigerator empty. [1958-TEM] Adrien Josset couldn't picture Annette Duché with him in Brussels, London, or Buenos Aires. [1959-CON] The newspaper account said Armand de Saint-Hilaire had served as French Ambassador in Rome, London, and Washington, among other capitals. [1960-VIE] The police had put out the alarm in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London. [1961-PAR] M's schoolboy English was far from adequate. It had been of little use to him in London, still less on the two occasions he had visited the US.... Norris Jonker said the greater part of his life had been frittered away going out in London, the US, India, Australia... [1963-FAN] The Chief Commissioner must have had his clothes made in London. [1964-DEF] M had frequently had to deal with people like that, as much at home in London as in New York or Rome, who take a plane the way most people take a subway. [1966-NAH] When he had been on the beat, M had known all the pickpockets by sight, not just those from Paris, but those who came from Spain or London for the big fairs or festivals.... Walter Carus said he'd had to fly to Frankfurt on Wednesday, the day of the murder, and from there to London. [1966-VOL] One of Victor Lamotte's sons represented his firm in Bonn. His daughter and son-in-law lived in London. [1968-ENF]
Not only the most elegant leather shop in Paris, but there were branches in Cannes, Deauville, London, New York and Miami.
[1969-TUE]
Long Beach Longchamp On the afternoon of his uncle's murder, Jehan d'Oulmont had been at Longchamp, where he'd bet on two horses in every race. [1936-pei] A gang of Poles, 5 or 6 of them, were holed up in the squalid Hôtel des Arcades. One of them, nicknamed the Baron, had changed a bill stolen from the Vansittart farm, at a parimutuel window at Longchamps. There'd been three murders in 6 months, all at isolated farms in the north. Coarse, brutal, hatchet murders. [1940-CEC] In a letter Isabelle de V-- had said she'd seen Armand de Saint-Hilaire at Longchamp, a redhead on his arm. [1960-VIE] Francine Josselin said they hadn't been to Longchamp or Auteuil more than ten times in their lives. Her husband had once taken her to see the Prix de Diane at Chantilly. [1961-BRA] On Sundays Manuel Palmari closed his shop and went to Auteuil, Longchamp, or Vincennes for the races, according to the season. [1964-DEF]
The newspapers had a picture of Philippe Lherbier at the weigh-in at Longchamp.
[1969-TUE]
Longchamp, Rue de The block of flats where Francine Latour lived was fairly high up on Rue de Longchamp, not far from a famous restaurant where M remembered eating several good lunches.... M chose two men to go on duty in the Rue Longchamp, with guns. [1947-MOR] Eugénie told M that Guillaume Serre had bought the pane of glass and the putty at a hardware store on the Rue de Longchamp.... Guillaume Serre's wife had been Maria Van Aerts, 51, from Sneeck in Friesland, Holland. She'd lived in a boarding house in Neuilly, Rue de Longchamp. [1951-GRA] Alain Lagrange came out of Jeanne Debul's building, 7B. But when Emile Lebraz, the policeman, went to the corner of Rue de Longchamp, no one was there. [1952-REV]
Stuart Wilton lived in the Rue de Longchamp, in a big house. Had a Rolls-Royce and a chauffeur.
[1961-PAR]
Longchamps M had covered the crowds, at the fairs at Trône and Neuilly, Longchamps races and demonstrations... [1950-MEM] Loony. The Loony, a harmless madman who came once a week to the Quai. M had him sent to Lucas. [1952-REV] Lope.
Baron thought of an American jockey, young Lope, but he was probably racing in Miami.
[1951-LOG]
Lopert, Rue Adrien Josset's house. It was nearly 11:00 when M climbed out of his car on Rue Lopert, 200 or 300 meters from the parish church of Auteuil. The men from the Public Prosecutor's Office were already there; Criminal Identification Division arrived five minutes later.... Oddly enough, M had never set foot in the Rue Lopert, which he'd first discovered that morning. More of a private lane than a real street. Only about 20 houses of the kind you find in a provincial avenue. Close to Rue Chardon-Lagache. Neighboring streets, instead of being named after great men of the republic, have author's names: Rue Boileau, Rue Théophile-Gautier, Rue Leconte-de-Lisle. The house was all glass and unexpected angles, built about 1925 in the Art Deco period. [1959-CON] Loraine Boitel. see: Boitel, Loraine Loraine Martin. see: Martin, Loraine Lord Mayor of London. When the Chief of Police visited the Lord Mayor of London and Scotland Yard, he found that they knew of M, and so he invited them to send someone to observe him in action. They sent Inspector Pyke. [1949-AMI] Lorigan. The husband of Désiré Campois' daughter, whose son, Jean Lorigan, M had seen at Orsenne. [1945-FAC] Lorigan, Jean. Désiré Campois' grandson. [1945-FAC] Lorilleux.
Loraine Martin had worked for M. Lorilleux in the Palais-Royal, in a shop which sold souvineers and old coins. Married, three children. Lived with them in the Rue Mazarine. Disappeared one day, his business taken over by some Poles. 50-ish, taller than M and broader, flabby, slovenly, pepper-and-salt mustache.... Mme. Lorilleux ran a haberdashery shop in the Rue du Pas-de-la-Mule.
[1950-noe]
Loriot Loris. Baron had spoken to Loris in the Manhattan Bar, who'd been a trainer for one of the Rothschilds. [1951-LOG] Lorris, Solange.
Léontine Faverges' neighbor across the hall, Solange Lorris, a dressmaker, a customer of hers, Mme. Ernie of Rue Saint-Georges, had seen a man in the hall that day in a navy-colored suit and a chestnut-colored belted raincoat.
[1959-ASS]
Los Angeles Lotard, Eugène. Eugène Lotard, 32. tall and sad. One of the boarders at Mlle. Clément's. Born at Saint-Etienne. Son of a railwayman. Insurance agent with the National. Married three years ago, Mlle. Rosalie Méchin, born at Bénouville, near Étretat (Seine-Inférieure). The Lotards had a 12-month old baby. [1951-MEU] Lotti, Gloria.
Italian, or maybe from Toulouse, Benoît thought. Countess Panetti's maid. Small, dark, well-dressed, well-mannered. Had met Mme M on the bench in Place d'Anvers, precipitating their flight when Alfred Moss recognized Mme M's picture in a magazine.... Gloria Lotti was found three days later in a brothel in Orléans.
[1949-MME]
Lotus
Finally, after 20 hours, Jean Bauche had cracked, admitted it was Gaston Nouveau who'd set up the job at the Lotus, a small bar on the Rue Saint-Antoine.
[1963-FAN]
Loubet Loubières. The other man, Loubières, burly, hirsute, born at Fécamp, kept a garage at Puteaux. [1961-PAR] Louceck, Stéphane. Stéphane Louceck at the Avenue de l'Opéra was a kind of financial consultant. Very ugly, long bulbous nose, streaked with bluish veins, brown hair sprouting from his ears and nostrils, eyebrows almost an inch wide. [1969-VIN] Louchard, Pierre. Pierre Louchard, 40, homosexual, ran an antique shop on the Rue des Sèvres. Frequented the Old Wine Press. [1966-VOL] Louchez. Listed as a telephone subscriber at Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. [1955-COR] Louette, Angèle. 56. Angèle Louette, heavily built, somewhat mannish, a masseuse. Léontine Antoine had been her mother's sister. Had a small apartment on Rue Saint-André-des-Arts. Son Billy Louette. 25, a musician, probably on the Riviera.... Angèle Louette, Léontine Antoine's niece, lived just across the river, near the Pont-Neuf.... Angèle Louette's mother married a bank clerk who died young. She went to work for a business firm in the Rue Paradis. [1970-FOL] Louette, Billy. Angèle Louette's son, Émile, better known and in musical circles as Billy Louette. Night-club guitarist, 25. redhead, small-boned, rather thin, periwinkle-blue eyes. Played in a band called the Beastly Buggers. Lived in a furnished room in a small hotel on the Rue Mouffetard. Played at the Bongo, a café-restaurant in the Place Maubert. Had been with a Scandinavian girl, Danish or Swedish, the night before, called Hilda.... Told M three guys from England had turned up at Bongo, with a great chick who'd come home with him. [1970-FOL] Louette, Émile. see: Louette, Billy Louis. see: Little Louis Louis. Lucien, the bartender at the Tabac Fontaine, told the proprietor, Louis, the phone had been working just a few minutes before. [1934-MAI] For most people, M. Louis was only a porter of a luxury hotel. [1938-owe] Louis, one of the waiter's at Chez Léon, confirmed that Ernest Combarieu, the man in the photo M showed him, had been there the day before, staying long and making a nuisance of himself. [1946-obs] Justine called M. Louis in Paris to get girls. [1949-AMI] Félix Jubert said that Alice Perret might be more brilliant than Louise Léonard. Alice was the one who sang, and had come with Louis, whose parents were rich. He thought they'd get engaged. [1950-MEM] The manager of the Grelot said that Louis, the accordionist and conductor, knew Pierre Eyraud best. He was dark and handsome, about 30, Spanish-style whiskers. Lived on the Boulevard Voltaire in a 4-room flat. Two children, expecting a third. [1953-TRO] The customer at the end of the bar in the Clou Doré was M. Louis. [1965-PAT] M overheard a conversation in the street, about buying appliances, "hundred-franc monthly installments, Louis..." [1966-VOL]
Xavier Thorel called himself M. Louis when he visited Mme. Blanche's.
[1969-VIN]
Louis Véliard said Inspector Louis of the 9th, who knew Pigalle like the back of his hand, might know more.... Inspector Louis' skin was fine and very white, thick black moustache, red lips.... Inspector Louis was 45, had been a widower for perhaps 15 years, but always wore black. His colleagues in the 9th called him the Widower. He lived alone, on the other side of the boulevard [Boulevard de Clichy], at the bottom of Rue Lepic. He invariably drank Vichy. His wife had been run over by a bus. [1971-IND] Louisa. Now they called her Old Louisa, but M had known her when she was young and sexy, one of the best-looking prostitutes along the Champs-Élysées. She said her daughter had married a cashier from Crédit Lyonnais, and had three children. Her birthday was Feb. 18. [1972-CHA] Louis, Big.
see: Big Louis
Louis-Blanc, Rue The taxi that cruised past the Chez Calas at night, possibly with Lucette Calas, turned left into the Rue Louis-Blanc. [1955-COR] Louis Boubée. see: Boubée, Louis Louis Canange. see: Canange, Louis Louis Duvivier. see: Duvivier, Louis Louise. M found a postcard from Louise in Cannes to Emma. [1931-JAU] Fernande Steuvels' sister, who lived in Concarneau with her husband and mother. [1949-MME] Louise Bodin. see: Bodin, Louise Louise Boncoeur. see: Boncoeur, Louise Louise Bourges. see: Bourges, Louise Louise Bréjon. see: Bréjon, Louise Louise Filon. see: Filon, Louise Louise Laboine. see: Laboine, Louise Louise La Serte. see: La Serte, Louise Louise Léonard. see: Léonard, Louise Louise Paverini. see: Paverini, Louise Louise Pégasse. see: Pégasse, Louise Louise Sabati. see: Sabati, Louise Louise Voivin. see: Voivin, Louise Louis, Fat. Mickey Boubée asked M if he remembered Fat Louis, who owned the three brothels in the Rue de Provence. And One-eyed Eugène? And Handsome Fernand, who ended up in the cinema? The men he was talking about had been the big bosses of the underworld in those days, and they used to meet at La Tétoune's. [1962-COL] Louis Fillou. see: Fillou, Louis Louis Filon. see: Filon, Louis Louis Frassier. see: Frassier, Louis Louis Fumal.
see: Fumal, Louis
Louisiana Louis Jeunet. see: Jeunet, Louis Louis Legrand. see: Legrand, Louis Louis Mahossier. see: Mahossier, Louis Louis, Monsieur. The concierce at the building on Rue de Bondy said Louis Thouret had always been called Monsieur Louis. [1952-BAN] Louis Paumelle. see: Paumelle, Louis Louis Pélardeau.
see: Pélardeau, Louis
Louis-Philippe Gilbert Négrel was from the South of France, from Nîmes. One member of his family had been a naval surgeon under Napoleon, another a public attorney under Louis-Philippe. [1956-AMU]
The furniture was massive, mostly in the Louis-Philippe style.
[1972-CHA]
Louis-Philippe, Pont M asked Léa where she slept, and she pointed to the Pont Louis-Philippe. [1962-CLO] There were cars all along the embankments from the Pont Louis-Philippe to the Pont de Sully, and others were parked on the other side of the island on the Quai de Béthune and the Quai d'Orléans. [1969-TUE] Louis, P'tit. see: P'tit Louis Louis, P'tit. P'tit Louis recognized M and challenged him. "Come for me?"... M said "Don't forget the pocket-book business when you're doing your glass-eating act in the Bastille." He'd been the second stoker on the Océan. [1931-REN] Louis the Kid. Louis the Kid told M he'd interrogated him from nine at night to five in the morning. Something to do with dope. A few years back. He'd been a messenger at the Célis in the Rue Pigalle. [1937-38-ber] Louis the Kid had been arrested the day before for picking pockets in the métro. M used him as a lure in the Ernest Borms killing. [1939-hom] Louis Thouret. see: Thouret, Louis Louis Viaud. see: Viaud, Louis Louis Willems.
see: Willems, Louis
Louis XIV Forlacroix said he had spent the greater part of his life in Versailles, which still retained the flavor of the golden age of Louis XIV.... Lise Forlacroix's sister was sitting in a Louis XIV bed.... It seemed to M he had not only the key to the Louis XIV writing desk, but to all the characters whose interaction had caused so much damage over the years. [1940-JUG]
M had never been able to endure Judge Coméliau. "Let's go and see the old monkey," he sighed. He knew the Judge was capable of saying, like Louis XIV, "I nearly had to wait..."
[1947-MOR]
Louis XV A typist was sitting at the Louis XV table. [1932-LIB] Philippe Bellamy said in his wife's boudoir was a little rosewood Louis XV desk, with an inkstand and a blotter. [1947-VAC] Germaine Baboeuf complained about walking in her Louis XV heels. [1948-PRE] Gaston Meurant had notice a drawer in the Louis XV desk open, and shut it.... The 4-year-old child, Cécile Perrin's body was on a Louis XV sofa, smothered to death. [1959-ASS] In Mrs. Florence Wilton's house M could see a Louis XV armchair. [1961-PAR] There was an attractive Louis XV table and a grand piano in René Josselin's apartment. [1961-BRA] In the corner was a Louis XV desk, writing paper with the name Philippe Lherbier, the leather merchant on the Rue Royale. [1969-TUE] Jeanne Chabut went to a Louis XV deak and picked up a sheet of writing paper.... On top of a Louis XV desk there was a bulky parcel, clumsily tied with string. [1969-VIN] M waited, motionless, in an uncomfortable Louis XV chair. [1971-IND] Louis XVI.
Charles Malik's wife Aimée Malik sat beside him in a Louis XVI chair.
[1945-FAC]
Louis XVI Angela Dodds' house was littered with African and Chinese artifacts, all the bric-à-brac of Montparnasse bohemians.... A red-and-gold Chinese divan smothered in dragons. clashed with a delicate Louis XVI pier glass. [1940-JUG] Two Louis XVI long-cased clocks were in Juliette Boynet's rooms. [1940-CEC] M was surprised at Mme Lucille's to find himself in a little Louis XVI sitting room, such as in Passy or Auteuil. [1946-NEW] Éveline Schneider's trying-on room was furnished in the Louis XVI style. [1961-PAR] Évelina Nahour's room was spacious, with Louis XVI furniture. [1966-NAH] On all the fake Louis XVI chairs were antimacassars of lace or embroidery. [1968-ENF]
M followed Line Marcia into a pearl-gray and yellow room with Louis XVI furniture.
[1971-IND]
Loup-Pendu Lourceau.
M. Lourceau, the shipbuilder, was very old, but tall and still very sturdy, with a crimson face beneath his white hair. He was the best bridge player.... M. Lourceau had been one of Odette Bellamy's mother's lovers.
[1947-VAC]
Lourdes Loureau.
M asked Janvier if it hadn't been Loureau he'd seen in the corridor. Loureau was a journalist who'd been haunting Police Headquarters since the days when M was a mere inspector.
[1958-TEM]
Lourtie Someone had to be sent to relieve Aristide Fumel at the Hôtel Lambert. Not a member of his "personal team", but Lourtie or Lesueur. Neither was available, so Baron went over. [1961-PAR] Janvier had Lourtie, Jamin and Lagrume out checking the possible places Marinette Augier might be, one in each district, though all were outside of the Seine district... [1963-FAN] M asked Janvier who was on duty near Manuel Palmari's. It was Lourtie, the fat man. [1964-DEF] Upstairs M found Lucas, Jussieu and Lourtie. [Lourite in Penguin p 260] [1966-NAH] One of the women outside François Ricain's saw Lourtie, "the tall one" and wondered if he was M.... M told Lapointe he'd leave Lourtie with him.... Lourtie was smoking a small, exceptionally strong cigar. [1966-VOL] M asked who was in charge of Léon Florentin and Lourtie came forward.... Lourtie was one of the oldest inspectors on the Force, and he knew every trick of the trade. [1968-ENF] Lucas told M it would be best if when Lourtie and Neveu came to relieve them they brought a car. [1969-TUE] M told Lourtie to make a note of Gilbert Pigou's address. (Loutrie in English ed.). M turned to fat Lourtie, who was smoking his pipe in little puffs.... "What if he shoots first," grumbled fat Lourtie. [1969-VIN] M called Lucas when he returned from Toulon and asked who was available. Neveu, Janin, Lourtie. M said he wanted a 24-hour watch on Angèle Louette. [1970-FOL] Inspector at Quai des Orfèvres M asked to distribute the photographs of the then unidentified Marcel Vivien. Called M from a bistro opposite the Hôtel Jonard, Place des Abbesses, Montmartre, where two of his men had found clues. The fastest typist in the department, took Émile Hugon's testimony. [1971-SEU] He told him to watch Nathalie Sabin-Levesque, and to have Lourtie relieve him in the morning. [1972-CHA] Lousteau.
A grain merchant from near Niort, was in the same car as Martin Duché on his way home. Had recognized him after the car emptied out at Poitiers, and only the two of them were left.
[1959-CON]
Loutrie M called Lucas when he returned from Toulon and asked who was available. Neveu, Janin, Lourtie. M said he wanted a 24-hour watch on Angèle Louette. (Loutrie in HBJ) [1970-FOL]
Lourtie. Inspector at Quai des Orfèvres M asked to distribute the photographs of the then unidentified Marcel Vivien... (written "Loutrie" in the HBJ edition.)
[1971-SEU]
Louvain
Jehan d'Oulmont had studied law at the University of Louvain, but had been expelled for notorious conduct.
[1936-pei]
Louvelle M recognized Louvelle's voice at the 11th arrondissement. Told M Demarie picked up Antoine Batille's tape recorder and brought it in. [1969-TUE] Louvet. Lucas turned the corner just in time to see the truck of the car mechanic, Louvet, drive off for Paris, which apparently Félicie had gotten into. [1942-FEL] Louvre.
Maria Van Aerts used to spend entire days at the Louvre.
[1951-GRA]
Louvre Louvre Whether at Bon Marché, the Louvre or Printemps, the clientele was regular. [1950-MEM]
M thought that while Mirella Jonker might live among paintings worthy of the Louvre, he wouldn't have been surprised to learn that she had haunted the terraces of the Place Messéna with flowers to sell.... Pierre at the Ritz told M Ed Gollan was an art critic, had entertained the director of the Louvre several times.
[1963-FAN]
Louvre, Hôtel du Louvre, Quai du
A shopkeeper from the Quai du Louvre was waiting to see M, but he saw Francine Tremblet first, who Lucas had brought in by bus.
[1946-pau]
Louvre, Rue du Ferdinand Fumal showed M 7 anonymous threat letters he'd received, postmarked at a post office near the Opéra. One had been from Boulevard Beaumarchais, another the Central Post Office in the Rue du Louvre, the last, Avenue des Ternes. [1956-ECH] Xavier Marton left work for lunch and hurried along the Rue du Louvre. He turned left into Rue Coquillière, and went into a little restaurant called Trou Normand, less than 100 yards down the street. The front was painted brown with yellow letters, menu stuck up on the left of the door. Met Jenny there. [1957-SCR] Lowell, Austin. Sir Austin Lowell, Christine's first husband.... Christine Josset, née Fontane, Used the name of her former husband, Lowell, of the English brewery family, till she remarried. [1959-CON] Loyal. A friend of Ronald Dexter's, Germain, who'd played Mr. Loyal in the circus, had lent him the flyer. [1946-NEW] LU LUC LUD LUG LUI LUK LUL LUM LUN LUP LUQ LUS LUT LUX LUZ Lucas . see Maigret's Faithful Four (Les quatre fidèles de Maigret) by Murielle WengerTorrence remarked that Lucas was done for the day - he'd arrested two dope peddlers that evening. [1929-30-LET] Inspector Lucas, who nearly always worked with M, came to M's room at the Café de la Marine to report on the two girls.... Lucas took a packet of grey tobacco out of his pocket and handed it to M. [1930-PRO] Sergeant Lucas was passing with a handful of files, and M told him to quickly get his coat and hat and follow Joseph Van Damme, to the ends of the earth if necessary. [1930-31-PHO] M had the waiter call the Police Juciciaire and have Lucas or Janvier come over to the Coupole. [1930-31-TET] Every hour or two M would press a button, and Sergeant Lucas would come in to take over the interrogation.... Lucas, who was one of M's oldest colleagues, explained. Isaac Goldberg's corpse was in the morturary at Étampes. 45, with a pronounced Jewish look. [1931-NUI] M had them let Victor Gaillard go, and told Lucas to stay on his tail. [1931-GUI] M had Lucas check with all the dust-bin rakers who operate in the vicinity of the Place des Vosges, and if necessary to go to the Saint-Denis works where the rubbish was burnt. [1931-OMB] M sent a wire to Lucas to come at once. [1932-POR] Lucas had telephoned from Paris. He'd had his eye on Samuel Meyer several years ago. [1932-FOU] M could see Lucas, on the other side of the water, tramping about on the dredger. [1933-ECL] Good old Lucas, who'd worked with him hundreds of time, came up, slightly embarrassed.... I'll have to be going, Lucas stammered.... Lucas came in and told M that Germain Cageot was with Amadieu. Philippe Lauer just watched the two colleagues who'd worked together for 20 years. [1934-MAI] Lucas called M. Émilienne had been a virgin. [1936-err] M called out to Lucas to bring up send sandwiches, and to call at the brasserie to have some beer sent up. [1936-bea] On the second floor, the plate bore the words Le Commerce Français; Sergeant Lucas opened the door and asked if Oscar Laget was there. [1936-fen] Inspector Janvier and Sergeant Lucas took it in relays, and M had put in 100 hours already. [1936-pei] M ordered Christiani to call Lucas at Police Headquarters. [1936-pig] In the window of the second floor of a house on the Rue de Birague, a little old man was sitting beside a canary's cage; Sergeant Lucas, who had added 20 years to his appearance.... had been transformed into an elderly cripple. [1937-38-sta] At the Étoile du Nord, Sergeant Lucas, M's best collaborator, was carrying out a thorough investigation.... Lucas, who was a short man, looked up at M with mingled astonishment and admiration. [1937-38-eto] M thought that the "colleague killed by his side" could only have been Sergeant Lucas, and he'd never mentioned a niece. ... Berthe said she was his great-niece. [1937-38-ber] M was prowling his office in the Quai des Orfèvres when the call from Lucas came in. [1939-hom] M heard Lucas' kindly voice, reporting that Janvier had been following Ellen Darroman.... M spoke to Lucas from Cannes, where he learned of Justin Colleboeuf's murder. [1939-MAJ] In Paris M would have had his trusted team to call on, Lucas, recently promoted to Inspector, Janvier, Torrence, and all the boys in Criminal Records and Forensics.... Any one of his staff at the Quai des Orfèvres, Lucas or Janvier for instance, would have recognized the signs at a glance. Someone was "in for it." [1940-JUG] M had offered to send Lucas to Cécile Pardon's to keep an eye out. ... M had sat up with Lucas in his room overlooking the Rue de Birague, keeping watch on the woman connected to the Poles, so he hadn't had any sleep on the day of Juliette Boynet Boynet's funeral. M had gone into the Hôtel des Arcades, fought with and arrested one of the Poles, a giant of a man, and had Torrence take him to the Quai des Orfèvres for interrogation.... Janvier reported from Le Vieux Normand that Lucas was at his post. Sergeant Lucas had been shut up in one room for the past four days in the guise of an elderly invalid, watching the gang of Poles.... M asked the Commissioner to put Lucas in charge of the Poles, so he could concentrate on the Cécile case.... Lucas was in M's chair, interrogating the Pole when M returned. He said he and Janvier had been at him for ten hours so far. [1940-CEC] Lucas searched Mlle. Jeanne's apartment for the key to the kitchen.... Lucas, short, round and bustling, appeared, mopping his brow. Like M, he had crossed the street that separated the Police Judiciaire from Police Headquarters, to be on the spot if news came in.... Watching the house at Boulevard des Batignolles, had been dressed as a tramp. Everybody in the Police Judiciaire knew that M hated anything in the nature of a disguise. But Lucas loved nothing better than to act a part. Mme. Antoinette Le Cloaguen left her house, took the métro at Place Clichy [Place de Clichy] . Got out at Saint-Jacques (station, at Place Saint-Jacques, on Boulevard Saint-Jacques, 14th), and immediately into the only taxi waiting, a fake, obviously prearranged. [1941-SIG] Sergeant Lucas, who had spent the night in Jeanneville, was at M's side.... Lucas champed at the bit, smoked his pipe endlessly. [1942-FEL] It was Sergeant Lucas, who had worked with M over a long period of time, and knew him better than anyone who'd hit on the description that M made himself like a sponge. He was rather like God the Father. [1943-CAD] At 2:00 Lucas had come in to talk to him about a case of currency fraud, then about Inspector Janvier, whose wife was expecting another child.... In front of M was the glowing tip of Lucas' cigarette. [1945-pip] M found Lucas in his old office. [1945-FAC] M had Lucas come with him to Maurice Tremblet's, in the Rue des Dames. As usual, the Crime Squad's little car was unavailable, so they had taken the métro. [1946-pau] And whenever Lucas came to see him, Lucas, who for 15 years had been his favorite sergeant, it was clearly understood that mention of "Headquarters" was forbidden.... Even people who had worked with him for years and years, like Sergeant Lucas, did not always understand him when he was in that state. [1946-NEW] M called to Janvier and Lucas. Told them to take the Commodore's tie and shoelaces, and put cuffs on him. [1946-mal] Lucas, who knew M better than anyone, would have understood, and rubbed his hands with delight. [1947-VAC] Lucas had an endurance story as well, known as the Tale of the Crippled Blockhead: To keep watch on a small private house - at the corner of the Rue de Birague, near the Place des Vosges, he had been disguised as a paralyzed old man in a wheelchair, whom every morning a nurse pushed to the window where he stayed all day, a spreading beard, fed by a spoon. This had gone on for 10 days, at the end of which he'd practically lost the use of his legs. [see: STA]... At Au Petit Albert, M asked Lucas what he'd like to drink, Picon-grenadine? cassis? Lucas had a Cassis, and M a Suze-citron, probably to identify himself more strongly with Albert Rochain.... Behind the man [Victor Poliensky], the short figure of Lucas, portly Lucas, his stomach thrust slightly forward as usual.... M asked Janvier to keep watch till 9, when Lucas would relieve him. [1947-MOR] M asked Castaing to call Lucas, as he didn't want to call from there. [1949-DAM] Sergeant Lucas was one of M's inspectors who interrogated Caracci regarding the shooting in front of his club, along with Janvier and Torrence. Charlot asked M about "that fat little sergeant in your office, Lucas." M wanted to call him or Inspector Torrence in Paris from Porquerolles. [1949-AMI] Lucas made the official investigation at Frans Steuvels, where two human teeth, from someone alive recently (Krynker), had been found in the ashes of his furnace. Probably from a fat man about 30.... Lucas had been forced to take charge of organizing all the information on Steuvels case, and became known as The Great Turenne. Little Lucas never had enough staff for all the jobs. [1949-MME] M called Lucas, to check on all prisoners who'd been released in the past 5 years, for any who'd lived in the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, to trace Paul Martin, and to check on Jean Martin.... Lucas was almost a replica of M, although a head shorter, with shoulders half as broad, and a face which did not readily assume an expression of severity.... M called Lucas again, to have him check on taxis which might have picked up Loraine Martin that morning. [1950-noe] Lucas said to M one day on the way to the Brasserie Dauphine, "So you're in a novel now..."... Finally Lucas, who was probably sitting at M's desk, smoking one of M's pipes, which he'd begged him to leave him. [1950-MEM] Lucas had just come on duty, and he told Jacquart to send Arlette to him. [1950-PIC] M had to exercise patience with Lognon he'd never have shown toward Janvier or Lucas.... Lucas lived on the Left Bank. [1951-LOG] When M's wife was away, "kindly Lucas" invited M, "Why not come and take potluck with us?" His wife was the sort to panic over trifles. - an extra dinner guest was a nightmare.... Little Lucas came a few paces to meet him, at Cochin.... M had Lucas bring a car to Mlle. Clément's to pick up Émile Paulus.... Lucas was planning to call Joseph [Old Joseph] at Quai des Orfèvres to have him shut his window when it started hailing, when M took the phone, put it down and said "Not now, son." The hailstorm was one of the worst on record, damage amounting to millions of francs round Argenteuil. [1951-MEU] Lucas went about in a straw hat, which on him seemed like a native grass hat or lampshade. [1951-GRA] Neither Lucas nor Janvier, nor even young Lapointe were in the Inspector's office.... Lucas had been working for two weeks on another case, but was now free to work on the Louis Thouret case. He was in charge of searching for Albert Jorisse. [1952-BAN] M asked Lucas to check with all the night taxies near Rue Popincourt -- there was a stand on Place Voltaire -- to see if anyone picked up François Lagrange with his trunk and brought him back. M was smoking his enormous pipe. Left M a note he found when he came back from Lagrange's daughter: Call the police station at Gare du Nord asap. Found the taxi driver who had taken Lagrange to Gare du Nord. M and Lucas took the trunk to Jussieu's laboratory. He was still there. Met Torrence on the stairs.... Called M at the Savoy from Paris to report that the revolver had been found in Lagrange's apartment. [1952-REV] When M returned to Paris, he heard the story of the senator's daughter, and that Lucas had begun interviewing some of those involved. [1953-PEU] M called he Quai des Orfèvres and had Lucas come join him. [1953-TRO] Back in his office he found Lucas waiting, and they walked to the bank on the Rue de Rivoli, crossing Pont-Neuf. Short-legged Lucas was obliged to take many steps to keep up with him. [1953-ECO] M went into the Duty Room at the Quai des Orfèvres and asked Lucas if he'd had any calls. Lucas said there'd only been one, about the theft of cheeses from Les Halles. [1954-JEU] M said he'd had dinner with the boss and Lucas and Janvier at the Brasserie Dauphine.... M assigned Lucas to find out about Jacques Fleury.... Lucas met M and Janvier in the Brasserie Dauphine, and talked to M in an aggrieved voice such as he had never used before in M's presence. When M asked if he wanted a beer he said he rather a pernod, also uncharacteristic. [1954-MIN] Lucas and Janvier had been on duty since 6:00 at the Quai des Orfèvres. Lucas got the call about the man's arm, and decided to let M sleep a little longer. Lucas called M at 8:15, just after M had finished his second cup of coffee. Told M he had Janvier, Lamaire, and Lapointe available. M told him to send Lapointe, since he, the Chief Inspector, might participate. N. told Lucas to let the Chief know... M told Lapointe to have Lucas check on the Poitiers train and with Saint-Aubin and the nearest villages. [1955-COR] Lucas had been seen to leave his office and go into M's. [1955-TEN] Lucas came in, smelling like a drug store. [1956-ECH] Lucas was at Pau, where he had relatives.... The bar on the streetcorner, Quai de Charenton. He'd spent hours there watching someone. The barwoman studied M. It was over 3 years since he'd been there. On the yellow-painted walls were the sort of advertisments you see in cafés in the country. She finally recognized him, and remembered "a little fat fellow who bounced along as he walked", Lucas. [1956-AMU] Lucas called to say that the Countess Louise Paverini had left the hospital.... Lucas sat down at his office in the Quai des Orfèvres, where the previous night's reports awaited him. [1957-VOY] Janvier and Lucas were playing cards, something they did less than three times a year. M asked them if they'd seen Xavier Marton leave, but they hadn't noticed. M had Lucas send the white powder [zinc phosphide] Marton had brought with him to the laboratory for analysis.... Lucas had one great fault: it was easy to spot him as a policeman, so M couldn't use him for the Marton surveillance.... M had Janvier and Lucas go to the Grands Magasins du Louvre, for Janvier to point out Marton to Lucas, who would follow him.... In the inspectors' office M told Lucas to stop Gisèle Marton if she tried to leave before he came back to his office. [1957-SCR] M opened the door of the Inspector's office, greeted Lucas, Torrence and two or three others, and told them to tell Lapointe he was there.... M had Lucas call the Public Prosecutor's office. Lachaume of Lachaume's Biscuits had been shot in the heart. He reminded him to call the Identity people as well. [1958-TEM] M hadn't mentioned anything about buying the house to Janvier or Lucas, nor to anyone else.... M met Janvier outside the door, who said Lucas had arrested two young men in the robbery of a branch bank in the 20th. [1959-ASS] Like Janvier, Lucas and a score or so of M's men, Aristide Fumel was of the old school.... Lucas said he was still hunting for old Fernand, an old con whose identity had never been definitely established. [1961-PAR] Janvier was on vacation, and Lucas had come back the day before, hadn't yet returned to work.... There'd been a new crime during the night, almost a downright massacre. Lucas, just back from vacation, was handling it. It had happened between two Poles, in a hovel near the Porte d'Italie. A laborer who spoke bad French, a wretched puny man called Stéphane, with an unpronouncable last name, lived there with a woman and four small children. The woman was the wife of Majewski, who'd been a farm laborer on farms in the north. The two eldest children were Majewski's. Stéphane said Majewski had given him his wife... sold her to him. Majewski had come back, and during the night Stéphane had stabbed him and the wife. [1961-BRA] Janvier or Lucas had nicknamed Léonard Planchon "the Saturday caller".... Lucas was standing beside M, slipping documents into a yellow folder.... M called Lucas to have him check if any taxi drivers had picked up Planchon near Rue Lepic or Place Blanche.... One Saturday M had sent Lucas to see Planchon, but he'd only wanted to see M. [1962-CLI] M sent Lucas to Hôtel-Dieu to collect the Doc's belongings. M called and told them Sergeant Lucas would be coming. [1962-CLO] M saw Lucas at the Brasserie Dauphine, who came over and introduced him to Antonio Farano.... Mickey Boubée described Lucas as "Your inspector, the little fat one." [1962-COL] M called Lucas to have him go to the hospital and get the bullets. [1963-FAN] Lucas and Janvier looked up in suprise when M said he was going to the Chief Commissioner's.... Lucas told M there'd been another jewelry store holdup. M told him to take care of it.... Lucas was away. Young Lapointe was on vacation. Janvier was typing a report.... Janvier had a small car. Lucas was thinking of getting one.... Lucas was in the detective's room, his head balder than it had been when he had entered the Superintendent's service.... M told Lucas and Janvier he'd been put on leave. [1964-DEF] "M's longest interrogation", 27 hours, was still being discussed. During that time the waiters from the Brasserie Dauphine never ceased bringing up beer and sandwiches. Lucas and Janvier had participated.... M called Lucas at the PJ, told him to go to the Rue des Acacias and bring Janin with him. [1965-PAT] Apart from his closest collaboarators, like Lucas, Janvier, Torrence, and, more recently, Lapointe, Dr Pardon was M's only friend.... Lucas had driven M to Orly and was waiting in the Judicial Police car. [1966-NAH] Janvier said that Lucas had the flu. [1966-VOL] Lucas had also gone on holiday, to the mountains somewhere around Chamonix. [1967-VIC] M handed Lucas some mail about the Lebourg case.... M had Torrence and Lucas come to his office when he got the call from Janvier about Mlle. Antoinette Vague's murder. Told Lucas to call Moers and have him go over there. M called the Public Prosecutor's Office. Then they went by car to the house together. Lucas drove.... Lucas interrupted M's interrogation of Mme. Parendon to report that she had been seen going through the house earlier that morning when she claimed to have been sleeping. [1968-HES] M had sent Lucas to Records to see if Léon Florentin had any convictions. Three, all minor. [1968-ENF] M gathered three of his favorite inspectors, Janvier, Lucas and young Lapointe - who would probably still be called that when he was 50 - into his office.... Of all his men, Lucas had worked with M the longest, and M now called him 'tu'. He called Lapointe 'tu' also, because he'd been almost a boy when he started. [1969-TUE] M called Lucas in to continue the interrogation of Théo Stiernet. [1969-VIN] M stopped into the inspector's room to tell Lucas and a few others that he was leaving.... M called Lucas when he returned from Toulon and asked who was available. Neveu, Janin, Lourtie. M said he wanted a 24-hour watch on Angèle Louette. [1970-FOL] Lucas and Lapointe were on holiday. [1971-SEU] Lucas woke M up at 2:00 am with a call from the 18th. They'd just found the body of Maurice Marcia, proprieter of the Sardine, a truly Parisian restaurant on the Rue Fontaine, on the sidewalk of the Avenue Junot, right at the top of the Butte Montmartre, not far from the Place du Tertre. [1971-IND]
M gave Lucas the list of nightclubs, and a dozen copies of the Cannes photo.
[1972-CHA]
Luce, Albert Lucette. M had put Janvier on the Stork case, and he had located Lucette, Émile Paulus' girlfriend for a while. Both had been born in Limoges. [1951-MEU] Jean-Charles Gaillard's secretary, Lucette, said there'd been a call from Cannes. She was pretty and pleasant, and her white nylon dress revealed an appetizing body. Was there something between her and Gaillard? [1962-COL] Young daughter of the woman who lived across the hall from Léontine Antoine. Family had lived there seven years. [1970-FOL] Lucette Calas. see: Calas, Lucette Luchet. M misheard Horace Van Usschen's name as Luchet. [1940-JUG] Lucia, Mario de. Mirella Jonker got on the phone and told M the artist Federigo Palestri had been taken to the frunished apartment of Mario de Lucia, 27B Rue de Berri. [1963-FAN] Luciano. If someone shoots down Luciano in a bar on Rue de Douai, the Corsicans will inevitably take their revenge before long. [1950-MEM] Lucia Pagliati. see: Pagliati, Lucia Lucien. Lucien, the bartender at the Tabac Fontaine, told the proprietor, Louis, the phone had been working just a few minutes before. [1934-MAI] The proprieter of Marina's was Lucien, wearing a thick beige sweater that made him look even shorter and broader.... M knew Lucien had been in trouble in Marseilles, but had gone straight and opened the little restaurant in Montmartre with his wife, Marina. [1936-pig] M. Lucien, the tenent of one of the small rooms on the fourth floor, had a piano delivered.... Pretending to be a musician, Lucien was actually an assassin working for Boris Krofta. [1937-38-amo]
One of the men in Antoine Batille's recording. Said Lucien and Gouvion were taking turns. Recorded at Café des Amis, Place de la Bastille.
[1969-TUE]
Lucien Priollet came in and asked M if he knew Lucien, one of his inspectors. He was short, fat, and very dark, and lived near Maigret. His wife kept a herb shop in the Rue du Chemin-Vert. M had often seen him and his wife standing in the doorway of the shop when he and his wife went past of their way to dine at Dr Pardon's. His wife had just been talking about Jeanine Armenieu, who'd lived next door. [1954-JEU] Lucien, Big. Mickey Boubée said Jean-Charles Gaillard had defended Big Lucien three years earlier and got him acquitted. [1962-COL] Lucien Boulay. see: Boulay, Lucien Lucien Fouque. see: Fouque, Lucien Lucien Hardoin.
see: Hardoin, Lucien
Lucien Leuwen Lucienne Jouffroy. see: Jouffroy, Lucienne Lucien Romanel. see: Romanel, Lucien Lucile. One of the policemen joked that his wife's name was Lucile, but she wasn't a little girl. [1947-VAC] Vanel said Bob d'Anseval was at the Hôtel du Centre, Rue de Brey, just behind the Étoile. He'd seen him with his girlfriend Lucile, who had a scar on her left cheek, at a bistro on the corner of the Rue de Brey. [1948-PRE] Lucile Cristin. see: Cristin, Lucile Lucile Decaux. see: Decaux, Lucile Lucile de Courçon. see: Courçon, Lucile de Lucile Duffieux. see: Duffieux, Lucile Lucile Gosset. see: Gosset, Lucile Lucile Merlot. see: Merlot, Lucile Lucille. Ronald Dexter had found another handbill: Robson the Comic, Lucille the Medium, and finally, J & J. Robson had died 10 or 15 years earlier in a railroad accident. In those days Lucille had been called Angel. [1946-NEW] Lucille did the rooms on the Perkins floor at the Hôtel de Bretagne. A dark little thing, cross-eyed, with a habit of letting one flabby breast out of her sky-blue bathrobe. [1951-LOG] Lucille, one of the roomers at Mariette Gibon's, had sometimes played a game of two-handed belote with Monsieur Louis [Louis Thouret]. [1952-BAN]
Thérèse said Inspector Priollet would vouch that she hadn't taken the pocketbook, it was her friend Lucille.
[1953-ECO]
Luçon The butcher had gone to the Vendée the day before - Once a month he went to Luçon where he kept cattle. [1938-ceu] M was playing billiards in the Café Français, Luçon, with M. Le Flem, the proprieter. [1940-JUG] Henri Monfils, an insurance agent from Luçon, Juliette Boynet 's first cousin, arranged for Juliette Boynet's funeral. With his wife and five sons, all with unruly fair hair, attended the funeral. [1940-CEC] M had first met Inspector Lechat in Luçon, when "as a result of some rather complicated administrative postings" M had been sent there for a few months. [1949-AMI] M reminded Julien Chabot that he'd lived in Luçon for more than a year. Said he remembered a certain murder at L'Aiguillon. [1953-PEU] There had been a political background. He had not been guilty. He had acted as it was his duty to act, had behaved not only as an honest man, but strictly according to his obligations as a public servant. Nevertheless, in the eyes of almost everyone he had done wrong. He had had to go before a disciplinary council, , and as everything was against him, he had been blamed. He had to leave the Paris headquarters and found himself exiled to Luçon, in the Vendée.... That time too the cause of it all had been a certain rivalry between the Rue des Saussaies and the QDO, each of the police departments receiving different directives, each defending opposing inerests whether they liked it or not, because of a struggle in high places. [1954-MIN]
M himself had been out of Paris in 1946. Shortly before he had fallen out with the then Chief of Police, who had retired a few months later. He had been posted to Luçon, where there had been practically nothing to do, and to pass the time he had spent most of the day playing billiards. He had had to stay there, bored and frustrated, for the better part of a year. Nor had Mme M taken to life in the Verndée. Fortunately the new Commissioner had summoned him back to Paris. At the time M was only an Inspector. He had not yet been promoted to Chief Superintendent and head of Criminal Police. M now looked back on his time in Luçon as not merely a gap in his career, but also a blank in his memory.... The reason the Nina Lassave case had slipped M's mind was that it had happened while they were in Luçon. Mme M: "I was never so bored in my life!" "Would you like a peach... they're sweet and ripe?" "I won't say no."
[1971-SEU]
Luc-sur-Mer Ludo. Joseph Van Meulen thanked the waiter, Ludo, for his Martini. M said he'd have one too. [1957-VOY] Luger. The bullet that killed Ferdinand Fumal had been from a Luger automatic, such as German officers carried during the war. [1956-ECH] Only one burglar had been armed, with a Luger he'd brought back from the war, not a 6.35 automatic. [1958-TEM] Norris Jonker told M there was an automatic in his drawer, a Luger, and that he kept a Browning .635 in the bedroom. [1963-FAN] Luigi. For twenty years Luigi at the Manhattan Bar had seen the whole American colony file through his place. [1951-LOG] Lukasek. The letter to Louise Laboine from her father told he to go to Brooklyn and look up a Polish tailor who name was Lukasek, 1214 37th St. [1954-JEU] Lulu. Dédé had called Françoise Binet "Lulu". Had run into her a few years later in the Place Clichy, with a young man, short and very dark. She'd pretended not to know him. [1951-MEU] Ernestine Jussiaume had told M, 17 years ago when he'd arrested her, that it was her friend Lulu who had robbed the purse, connected to a big cattle dealer from the Charentes. [1951-GRA] [Louise Filon]. They tried the first boarding house, the Hôtel du Var. Pierrot was staying there. His real name was Pierre Eyraud, 29, born in Paris. The old woman at the desk said he always came in with Lulu. [1953-TRO] Lulu Pasquier. see: Pasquier, Lulu Lulu the Torpedo. The girl M. Louis was with in the Clou Doré was Louise Pégasse, nicknamed Lulu the Torpedo. [Lulu la Torpille], the name she appeared under in a striptease club, the Boule Verte on Rue Pigalle. [1965-PAT] lumber room.
The lumber room was the room at the end of the corridor, lit only by a skylight out of reach.
[1956-ECH]
Luna Park Lune, Rue de la The appointment slip read: "Ernestine Micou, alias "Lofty" (now Jussiaume), ... who you arrested 17 years ago on Rue de la Lune..." [1951-GRA] Neveu had found a waffle stand in the Rue de la Lune where Louis Thouret often bought waffles. [1952-BAN] Luppin, Angelino. At the time of Count Hans von Farnheim's death Angelino Luppin had been 38, the butler. [1950-PIC] Luquet, Marcelle. Jacques Fleury had had a girlfriend named Marcelle Luquet, about 40, stout, dark hair, who some say he picked up when she was a cashier in a brasserie in Porte Saint-Martin. Lucas had toured the bars on the main boulevards, starting with the one by the Place de l'Opéra. He finally found the right one, on Place de la République, where the bar owner thought she lived in the vicinity, towards Rue Blondel. He'd often met her on Rue de Croissant, so thought she worked in a newspaper office or printing house.... Worked as a proofreader in the Imprimerie du Croissant, on the night shift. Lucas bought her coffee on the Boulevard Montmartre. [1954-MIN] Lussac, Jacqueline. René Lussac's wife, Jacqueline Lussac's maiden name was Jacqueline Beaudet, born in Orléans. [1961-PAR] Lussac, René.
Inspector Nicolas had learned that Joseph Raison was friends with René Lussac, 31, and his wife, 2 or 3 years younger. They had a boy two and a half. He worked for a firm of musical instrument makers and had a car, a Floride.
[1961-PAR]
Lutetia Luxembourg Luxembourg Gardens Coméliau had been born in a house on the Left Bank with a view over the Luxembourg, where he still lived. [1955-COR] Since he'd retired, René Josselin went for walks in the morning in the Luxembourg Gardens. [1961-BRA] Léontine Antoine's father was a man of property, and they'd lived near the Luxembourg Gardens. The two girls, Léontine and Angèle Louette's mother, went to a very good school. [1970-FOL]
Dr. Bloy said he'd lived around the corner since he was a child and he'd used to play in the Luxembourg Gardens with Gérard Sabin-Levesque.
[1972-CHA]
Luxemburg Luxor Luzancy LW Lwow . Adolphe Bonvoisin, a Frenchman from Lille, had come from Lwow, representing a cotton-spinning firm with a branch in Poland. [1936-arr]LY Lycée Banville . Léon Florentin had been at school with M, Lycée Banville, Moulins. [1968-ENF]Lycée Henri IV . François Lagrange had been a schoolmate of Dr Pardon's at the Lycée Henri IV. [1952-REV]Lycée Racine . Émile Parendon's son, Gus Parendon, was in the third grade at the Lycée Racine. It was he who had written the anonymous letter to M warning of a murder to come. [1968-HES]Lycée Rollin. Louis Louis Mahossier's Painting and Decorating firm in Montmartre, Avenue Trudaine, near the Lycée Rollin. [1971-SEU] Lycée Stanislas.
M thought of Harry Brown, that he must have gone to Oxford or Cambridge, while he himself had gone to the Lycée Stanislas.
[1932-LIB]
Lyon Charles Malik had been brought from Lyon to marry Aimée Amorelle, pregnant by Ernest Malik. [1945-FAC]
The station staff remembered Hélène Lange had gone to Strasbourg, Brest, Carcassonne, Dieppe, Lyon, Nancy, Montélimar, always a fairly large town.
[1967-VIC]
Lyons Jean Métayer said he'd been at the château for four years. His parents had been ruined by the crash of a little bank in Lyons. [1932-FIA] Gina Martini and her mother had said they were going to see a sick relation in Lyons. [1932-LIB] Then comes the Upper Seine, which takes you to Burgundy, the Loire, Lyons, and Marseilles. [1933-ECL] Germain Cageot's first appearance in the records was at Lyons. [1934-MAI] The night before the truck, which traveled regularly between Paris and Lyons, had run into a stationary car and sent it hurtling into the Loing. [1937-38-noy] Saft got off the London plane in Lyons and switched to one for Geneva. [1938-owe] Just after Lyons, around Montélimar, M's train was running through a tunnel in the mist. [1939-MAJ] In a little Italian restaurant M found Dédé. He had a highly-colored complexion and his blond hair was parted in the middle. M told him he was a friend of Bob d'Anseval's arrived from Lyons. [1948-PRE] The Alcyon was an enormous white yacht kept at Porquerolles, almost entirely metal, owned by a Lyons businessman, M. Jaureguy, who used it one week a year. [1949-AMI] Jeanine Armenieu came from Lyons, the daughter of Mlle. Poré's half brother, who worked in a textile factory. [1954-JEU] The son-in-law of the last Mullerbach had Jeanfils check to see who'd bought the buttons. There were about 40 tailors, 4 at Lyons, 2 at Bordeaux, 1 at Lille, a few in other towns, the rest in Paris. [1955-TEN] The train to Toulon stopped at Dijon, Lyons, Avignon, and Marseilles. [1959-ASS] Mauricette Gallois had two brothers, one in the army in Germany, one in Lyons, where her father came from. [1969-TUE] M promised himself to look at the scenery, as he was especially fond of the scenery south of Lyons. But he was asleep before they flew over the Rhône. [1971-IND]
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[Paris - Le Bourget Airport, in Le Bourget, Bonneuil-en-France, and Dugny, 6.9 mi NNE of Paris. It is now used only for general aviation (business jets) as well as air shows.
The airport started commercial operations in 1919 and was for long Paris's only airport until the construction of Orly Airport in 1932. It is most famous as the landing site for Charles Lindbergh's historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927.... 
[Les Halles was the traditional central market of Paris. In 1183, King Philippe II Auguste enlarged the marketplace in Paris and built a shelter for the merchants, who came from all over to sell their wares. In the 1850s, the massive glass and iron buildings (Victor Baltard Architect) Les Halles became known for were constructed. Les Halles was known as the "belly of Paris".
Unable to compete in the new market economy and in need of massive repairs, the colorful ambience once associated with the bustling area of merchant stalls disappeared in 1971, when Les Halles was dismantled; the wholesale market was relocated to the suburb of Rungis. (