Un Noël de Maigret (En Français Facile)

the long version

This, one of the longer short stories, was the last work that Simenon wrote whilst living at Carmel-by-the-sea in California. It was written on the 20th of May 1950 and was the twenty-eighth and last of the Maigret short stories.When it was published by Presses de la Cité in book form it was accompanied by two other longer short stories – Sept Petites Croix dans un carnet (A Matter of Life and Death / Seven Little Crosses in a notebook) and Le Petit Restaurant des Ternes (The Small Restaurant in