Jean Gabin, the Perfect Embodiment of Commissioner Maigret

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This article is taken from the Hors-série: La France de Gabin. "Gabin did an amazing job. It bothers me a bit, however, because I will be able to see Maigret only under Gabin's features." Thus, in 1963, Georges Simenon, the "father" of the famous commissary, commented, on television, on the performance of the actor in his third and last interpretation (Maigret sees red, Gilles Grangier) of his hero whom he defined as "a person more than a charac…