Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre
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Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre is a 1959
Plot
Commissioner Maigret returns to Saint-Fiacre, the village he grew up in, where his father had been estate manager for the family owning the
Early next morning the countess goes to mass at the village church where, on returning to her pew after receiving the sacrament, she falls dead. The local doctor Bouchardon is not surprised, telling Maigret that her heart was weak and that she died of natural causes. When that day's local paper arrives, the front page reports that the young count Maurice killed himself in Paris the day before. But Maurice is in fact alive and has rushed back on learning of his mother's death. Ringing the newspaper, Maigret is told that the report was phoned in last thing without time to check.
Now convinced of a plot to rob and kill the countess, whose young favourite he had once been, Maigret starts his own investigation of what caused her sudden death and who wanted her dead. On returning to her pew she had opened her
Without revealing his hand, Maurice has also been investigating and, while his mother's body is still lying upstairs, organises a macabre dinner party for those he suspects. At it, Maigret accuses both the doctor and the assistant of negligence, but not homicide, and then reveals that the plotters were the manager and his son, who sought to cut out Maurice and enrich themselves. He calls the local police to take them away.
Principal cast
- Jean Gabin: Commissioner Maigret
- Michel Auclair: Maurice de Saint-Fiacre
- Valentine Tessier: Countess de Saint-Fiacre
- Robert Hirsch: Lucien Sabatier
- Paul Frankeur: Doctor Bouchardon
- Michel Vitold: Father Jodet, the parish priest
- Camille Guérini: Gautier, the estate manager
- Serge Rousseau: Émile Gautier, the manager's son
References
- ^ "Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre". cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 February 2024.