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Inspector Maigret (Lopert). One dark night a woman is stabbed to death in the Rue des Rosiers. Five minutes later the criminal calls the Paris police and challenges Inspector Maigret to catch him. Enter Maigret-sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"-the hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...
...Edouard Manet's La Rue de Berne was knocked down to Georges Keller of Manhattan's Carstairs Gallery for $316,400, highest recorded price ever for a Manet. (Goldschmidt paid $64,000 in 1931.) Two other routine Manets also soared up into this fiscal stratosphere; one brought $182,000, the other...
...Rue de Salaud, Cambridge, seven-thirty in the morning. The timeless, homeward, flat-foot tread of the night-cop down Plympton Street; the inchoate giggle of a street-corner Horatio in a black leather jacket; two red eyes in the shadows...
...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
...there was finally a trail, starting at Boussaid's bedside. It led to addresses in Paris, Lille, Belfort and Metz. In Paris the address was a five-story apartment house at 17 Rue Lucien-Sampaix, in the working-class 10th arrondissement. A new building was going up across from the apartment house, and D.S.T. agents disguised in painters' white overalls drove up each morning in a truck that contained a battery of cameras with telephoto lenses. For days, everyone who entered or left the house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians...