Exposition « Simenon »

Through a range of documents, the Simenon exhibition invites you to meet the author as well as to read, hear and see his work

Starting out as a journalist, Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 — Lausanne, 1989) forged a career for himself as a novelist, restless traveler, and photographer. He left behind in the public’s imagination a singular image, the silhouette of a pipe-smoking man sporting a trench coat and fedora that melded with commissaire Maigret, the fictional French police detective that made the author a celebrity,. By his own admission, these detective stories taught him how to be a professional writer and, along the way, brought him great success, wealth, and international fame.