SIMENON SIMENON. UN GABIN BEAUCOUP MAIGRET
Rereading Georges Simenon’s Maigret in Court became a no-brainer 
SIMENON SIMENON. UN GABIN MOLTO MAIGRET
Rereading Georges Simenon’s Maigret in Court became a no-brainer 
SIMENON SIMENON. A GABIN VERY MAIGRET
Rereading Georges Simenon’s Maigret in Court became a no-brainer 

Rereading Georges Simenon’s Maigret in Court became a no-brainer after reading Louise Penny’s new best selling novel Glass Houses. Both protagonists, Jules Maigret and Armand Gamache, become immersed as prosecution witnesses against accused murderers in remarkable courtroom scenes. 

First of all, both novelists uniquely liken the courtroom proceedings to church services. Thus, for Maigret: Waiting to “track the ritualistic ceremony” of the court was like “being in kind of in a sacristy,” and he “was feeling the same trouble” he felt “at mass in the village church.” It is the same for Gamache: “Trials, like masses, were theatrics. He could almost smell the incense and hear a tinny, tiny bell.”