WALLONIA: THE GEORGES SIMENON PHENOMENON LIEGE CELEBRATES THE CENTENARY OF ITS PROLIFIC AUTHOR.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: April 26, 2003 | Copyright information

For most people, "Petit Georges" is indelibly associated with Maigret, the pipe-smoking Parisian detective who solved countless crimes by empathising with the criminal, and with a sexual prowess that would put Don Juan to shame - Simenon told Fellini that he had had sex with 10,000 women.

Something less well known is that the prolific author, who to date has notched up 600 million book sales worldwide, was born in Liege. Although Simenon, who died in 1989, couldn't wait ...

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