Georges Simenon

At 86 years old, Georges Simenon has this physical status:

Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer.

Simenon is best known as the author of the fictional detective Jules Maigret, a prolific writer who has written nearly 500 books and numerous short stories.

Early life and education

Simenon was born in Liège at 26 rue Léopold (now number 24) to Désiré Simenon and his partner Henriette Brüll. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office for an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902. Despite Simenon's birth on Friday, 13 February 1903, superstition resulted in his birth being recorded as being on the 12th. At the start of his book Pedigree, this tale of his birth is recounted.

The Simenon family can be traced back to Belgian Limburg. Simenon's line goes back to peasants who lived in the area as early as 1580. Although his father was of Walloon origins, his mother was from Limburg, the Netherlands, and Germany, he was born in Limburg, Germany. Gabriel Brühl, a criminal who preyed on Limburg from the 1720s to 1743, was one of his mother's most well-known ancestors. Simenon will use Brühl as one of his many pen names later.

In April 1905, two years after Simenon's birth, the family moved to 3 rue Pasteur (now 25 rue Georges Simenon) in Liège's Outremeuse suburb. Christian Simenon was born in September 1906 and became their mother's favourite child, much to Simenon's chagrin. The Simenons migrated to 53 rue de la Loi in February 1911, also in the Outback. The Simenons were able to take in lodgers in this larger house. Apprentices and students of various nationalities were typical, giving the young Simenon a vital introduction to the outside world; Pedigree and Le Locataire were two of his novels.

Simenon learned to read at the Saint-Julienne nursery school at the age of three. He attended the Institut Saint-André between 1908 and 1914. He began his studies at Collège Saint-Louis, a Jesuit high school, in September 1914, just after the First World War's start.

The Simenon family moved to a former post office building in Amercoeur in February 1917. Another move was made in June 1919, this time to the rue de l'Enseignement, which brought the Outermeuse neighborhood right back to the Output neighborhood.

Simenon decided not to attend the Collège Saint-Louis' year-end exams, based on his father's heart disease as a pretext. He then worked in a number of very short-term odd jobs.

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Career beginnings

In January 1919, the 15-year-old Simenon began working at the Gazette de Liège, a newspaper edited by Joseph Demarteau. Although Simenon's own beat contained unimportant human interest reports, it gave him the opportunity to explore the city's seamier side, including politics, bars, and cheap hotels, but also crime, police investigations, and seminars on police tactics by Edmond Locard. Simenon's time at the Gazette also taught him the art of quick editing. He wrote more than 150 articles under the pen name "G." Simultane "sim." In the early 1920s, he began submitting stories to Le Matin.

Au Pont des Arches, Simenon's first book, was published in 1921 under his "G. Sim" pseudonym. He wrote as "Monsieur Le Coq" on November 1919 and December 1922, in addition to his book "Monsieur Le Coq" on November 1919. In December 1922, he started writing for the Gazette.

Simenon's exposure to nightlife, prostitutes, alcoholic drink, and carousing has soared during this time. Anarchists, bohemian artists, and even two potential murderers were among the hommies he worked with, the latter of whom appeared in his book Les Trois crimes de mes amis. He also performed as "La Caque" in a group of artists. Though not directly involved in the group, Renchon did get to know his future wife Régine Renchon through it.

He wrote 358 books and short stories from 1921 to 1934.

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