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Romance
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Regine Tgy RenchonMarried 1923 - 1950
News + Updates
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Dirty Snow, By Georges Simenon (Trs Marc Romano And Louise Varese) The IndependentGoogle News - Aug 27, 2011
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Cada Hombre Es Un Mundo Diario El PaísGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
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Week End Roman Noir : Hommage à Simenon Midi LibreGoogle News - Aug 24, 2011
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L'assassino Libri Blog (Blog)Google News - Aug 22, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Georges Simenon.
CHILDHOOD
1903
Birth
Although Georges Simenon was born on 13 February 1903 superstition resulted in his birth being registered as having been on the 12th.
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1905
2 Years Old
In April 1905, two years after Georges Simenon's birth, the family moved to 3 rue Pasteur (now 25 rue Georges Simenon) in Liège's Outremeuse neighborhood.
1906
3 Years Old
Georges Simenon's brother Christian was born in September 1906 and eventually became their mother's favorite child, much to Georges Simenon's chagrin.
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1908
5 Years Old
At the age of three, Simenon learned to read at the Saint-Julienne nursery school. Then, between 1908 and 1914, he attended the Institut Saint-André.
TEENAGE
1914
11 Years Old
In September 1914, shortly after the beginning of the First World War, he began his studies at the Collège Saint-Louis, a Jesuit high school.
1917
14 Years Old
In February 1917, the Simenon family moved to a former post office building in the Amercoeur neighborhood.
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1918
15 Years Old
Using his father's heart condition as a pretext, Simenon decided to put an end to his studies in June 1918, not even taking the Collège Saint-Louis' year-end exams.
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In January 1919, the sixteen-year-old Simenon took a job at the Gazette de Liège, a newspaper edited by Joseph Demarteau.
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1922
19 Years Old
Désiré Simenon died in 1922 and this served as the occasion for the author to move to Paris with Régine Renchon (hereafter referred to by her nickname "Tigy"), at first living in the 17th arrondissement, not far from the Boulevard des Batignolles.
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TWENTIES
1930
27 Years Old
In 1930, the most famous character invented by Simenon, Commissaire Maigret, made his first appearance in a piece in Detective written at Joseph Kessel's request.
1932 saw Simenon travel extensively, sending back reports from Africa, eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Soviet Union.
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THIRTIES
1938
35 Years Old
At the beginning of 1938, he rented the villa Agnès in La Rochelle and then, in August, purchased a farm house in Nieul-sur-Mer (also in the Charente-Maritime) where his and Tigy's only child, Marc, was born in 1939.
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FORTIES
Simenon escaped questioning in France and in 1945 arrived, along with Tigy and Marc, in North America.
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He and Tigy remained married until 1949, but it was now a marriage in name only.
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1950
47 Years Old
Simenon and Denyse Ouimet were then married in Reno, Nevada in 1950 and eventually had three children, Johnny (born in 1949), Marie-Jo (born in 1953) and Pierre (born in 1959).
FIFTIES
In accordance with the divorce agreement, Tigy continued to live in close proximity to Simenon and their son Marc, an arrangement that continued until they all returned to Europe in 1955.
1961
58 Years Old
Teresa, who had been hired by Simenon as a housekeeper in 1961, had by this time become romantically involved with him and remained his companion for the rest of his life.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1978
75 Years Old
His long-troubled daughter Marie-Jo committed suicide in Paris in 1978 at the age of 25, an event that darkened Simenon's later years.
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1984
81 Years Old
Simenon underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1984 and made a good recovery.
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1988
85 Years Old
He gave his last televised interview in December 1988.
The ambiguities of the war years notwithstanding, the city of La Rochelle eventually honored Simenon, naming a quay after him in 1989.
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