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Sample of authors
Bussi, Michel
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a speciality within Cultural Geography – at L'université de Rouen where he himself started to study at the age of 18. Until 2016 he was also in charge of Unité mixte de recherche (UMR) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is also one of the most successful and m...
Literary figures
Jules-Joseph Maigret
Gender: Male
French detective inspector and something of an icon within the genre. Maigret was a farmer’s boy who became a cop by chance and quickly earned himself an office at the Paris police headquarters at Quai des Orfèvres. Georges Simenon’s books do not only follow the inspector’s investigations, but also his private life, including a happy, but childless, marriage.