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THE BOOK CLUB Alliance Française Vancouver is pleased to partner with the Centre de la Francophonie at the University of British Columbia to organize a free French Book Club, open to all, whether French speakers or learners. THE BOOK MAIGRET SET A TRAP In the past six months, five women have been killed in Montmartre. Will Maigret, the famous pipe-smoking inspector, be able to discover the murderer? THE AUTHOR GEORGES SIMENON Georges Simenon was a French-speaking Belgian writer born in Liège, Belgium on February 13, 19031 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 4, 1989. The abundance and success of his detective novels — including the Maigrets — partly overshadow the rest of his very rich work: one hundred and ninety-three novels, one hundred and fifty-eight short stories, several autobiographical works and numerous articles and reports published under his own name, as well as one hundred and seventy-six novels, dozens of short stories, gallant tales and articles published under twenty-seven pseudonyms. He is the most widely read Belgian author in the world. The cumulative print run of his books reaches 550 million copies. THE MODERATOR PATRICK MORAN Patrick Moran is an assistant professor of medieval literature at UBC. His first book, Lectures Cycliques (Honoré Champion, 2014), deals with the novel cycles devoted to King Arthur. He recently published a second book on contemporary fantasy (The Canons of Fantasy, Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is also the author of two fantasy novels, both published in France by Mnémos (La Crécerelle, 2018; Les Six Cauchemars, 2020). https://www.alliancefrancaise.ca #clubdelecture #AllianceFrancaiseVancouver #bookreview