All language subtitles for Maigret S03E01 Voices from the Past_Track03-eng

- (foreign language).

- Thank you all so much for your sympathy.

Father, can I leave the
details of the requiem to you?

- Of course.

- And any other
formalities to you, doctor?

Julien, see that there
is some wine downstairs.

I'm sure you will excuse me

Philippe

I do hate these things

Philippe, be sure the
Perle Sage vault is open

When your uncle Cassimere died
nobody could find the key

- What will you do, mother?

- What every respectable widow should do

- No, but later

- Oh, later

Of course I shall get married

(dramatic music)

(cheerful music)

- [Maigret] Where did
you buy this, Gobain?

- Not mine.

- [Maigret] Why did you buy it?

- Not mine.

- [Maigret] Why did you throws
it in the canal Saint Martin

after midnight last night?

- Not mine.

{telephone rings)

- Maigret.

Yes.

Yes, monsieur

Yes, monsieur, certainly,
at once, monsieur

All right, take him away.

Bring him back when he's ready to talk

Now lose this horrible thing

- Might've been an idea to
take him down the morgue

Remind him what he did with it.

- What a case for a beautiful day

Nowv, Lucas, we have
another one on our hands.

The ministry itself, that's
who telephoned just now

They've sent semebody around to see us

All very hush-hush

Maybe out there by now

- Ah, monsieur, I've come
to see a man called Maigret

- You mean chief inspector Maigret?

- Yes.
- This way.

Monsieur Cromieres.

- How do you do?

I imagine the minister telephoned you.

I am from the Quai d'Orsay

- Not another body in the cloak room?

- The foreign office
not the railway station

- Oh, well do sit down

- Madame
- Mademoiselle.

- Monsieur.

- This is highly confidential

- Lucas, see that we're not disturbed

- But of course, patron

- What is mademoiselle?

- She is the housekeeper

10 the count of Saint-Hilaire.

Rome 1923, London 27, Buenos Aires '32

- Oh, a diplomat.

Didn't I see his memoirs in the shops?

- The first two volumes.

The third will never be written.

This morning Mademoiselle Larrieu

who has worked for the
count for over 40 years

- 46 years.
- 46 years

Went to awaken him as usual.

The bedroom was empty

- The bed unslept in
- Quite so

She then went into the study
where she found the count

dead upon the floor
- Shot.

- What time was this?

- Half past eight

- Now, Mademoiselle came
straight around to us,

but of course the office was not yet open

- Why didn't you send for the police?

- The count belonged
to the core diplomatic

- Mademoiselle has learned discretion.

- Was she too discreet
to send for a doctor?

- [Jaquette] There was no
doubt that he was dead.

- Anyway, I suggest that we
now go around there together

- Your full name, Mademoiselle?

- Jaquette Larrieu

- Jaquette Larrieu

Address?

- Nine Rue St. Dominique

- Nine Rue St. Dominique

- You do understand that
all possible discretion

must be exercised?

- Why?

- The count was in his day,

the repository of many state secrets.

- When did he retire?
-In 1938.

- Monsieur, I hardly
think that he was killed

because he knew what
Daladier said to Chamberlain.

- But inspector, you don't understand

- Not in the least. I'm
just a police officer

(gentle music)

How old was he?
-77.

- Someone took the trouble to
put three bullets into him.

- Four, one in the head

- Is there any possibility of suicide?

- No weapon?

Did you touch anything?

- Nothing.
- You hear anything?

- Nothing.

- These were shut?
- Yes

{cheerful piano music)

- Whose is the garden”

- It belonged to the count,
he owned the whole house.

- But he didn't occupy it all?
- No.

After his father died in 1920

he converted the upper
floors into apartments

- It was the family
mansion, he was born here.

- I wonder how many people in Paris today

die in the houses they were born in

What are you doing?

- It is my duty to see

that nothing of a confidential
nature is left unguarded

- Hey Lucas, let's do our duty

Telephone headquarters,

ask them to send a doctor, a photographer,

a fingerprint specialist.

No, not that one, keep it clear.

- The concierge has one in her lodge

- Thank you, mademoiselle

- We shall want your prints, monsieur

- Mine?

- As a check, and yours, mademoiselle

- I have a great deal of work to do

Perhaps your man could
call round to my office?

- Certainly.

I can assure you the
prints will be destroyed,

provided you're not the murderer.

- Inspector, that is a remark
in the very worst of taste

- Yes, we're a cruel lot
on our side of the river,

it's the company we keep.

Good morning

Mademoiselle, have you a sheet?

- Monsieur.

- They're on their way.
- Good.

- It looks as though the shot in the head

was fired first here.

- It must've killed him,
vehy fire three more?

- Rage, panic.
- Perhaps

Thank you, mademoiselle

Take a lock in the garden, Lucas

- For footprints”?

-Oragun

Did he own a gun?
- Yes.

- Where did he keep it?

- In the top right-hand drawer

- Ne gun

What sort was it?

- I don't know.

- Was it black with a square barrel

or did it have a long
barrel with a cylinder?

- That was the sort.
- Revolver.

Now, mademoiselle, will
you tell me please,

where do you live here, sleep here?

- Yes, through the kitchen.

- You do all the housework?

- And the cooking

- How old did you say you were?

-73.

- When did you last see the count alive?

- At 10 last night

- Nothing there.

- Was he wearing that dressing gown?

- Yes, he always wore it
when he wasn't going out

- Does he often go out?

- Sometimes to the cinema.

- Not to friends?

- They were nearly all dead

- What about relations?

- There was only his
nephew, monsieur Mazeron

- Does he know about this?

- No.

- It didn't occur fo you to telephone him?

- No.

- Don't you like him?

- It's not my place to
interfere in family matters

- Didn't he get on with his uncle?

- 1 didn't say that.

- Where does he live?

- 12 Rue Jacob.

- [Lucas] Just round the corner

- He keeps an antique shop

(car horn hoots)

- That'll be the local
police, I'l let them in.

Lucas, tell them what to do

I'm going around to see this nephew

- Dead?
Shot?

My uncle?

- This morning

- Who would do that, a thief?

- There's no sign of any

Any enemies?

- Ch no
Well, I don't think so

No, no

- Is he rich?

- No, he had seme rents and his pension

- Did you see much of him?

- He'd come here once or twice a week.

Walk around and talk about the old days

Of course, this stuff didn't
really interest him much,

it was too modern.

- Modern?

- Yes, his century was the 18th

He fought the Bonaparte's Volga

This was used at Austerlitz.

What has Jaquette got to say about it?

- The housekeeper?
Nothing much

Could she have done it?

- Oh no, surely not, I mean

- What?

- Well, there's no real reason

- There's some reason?

- No, one couldn't say that

- She doesn't like you.

- She doesn't like anyone
except uncle Armand

She thinks anyone else
has tried to supplant her.

- Do you think there was
ever anything between them?

- I imagine so, yes.

It's very awkward

- It's more than that.

- That that should have happened today

- It would have been
just as awkward tomorrow

- But today is the day of the funeral

- Whose funeral?

- The prince De Vivonne

Haven't you read the letters”

- Letters?

- Oh, good Lord, you don't
know anything at all.

- And there, what are these?

- Medicines.

- There's enough of them.

Was he ill?

- I don't know, I'm not a doctor

- You don't get these from a doctor

These are the sort you get from a chemist

- I'm not a chemist either.

(car horn hoots)

- Allow me.

Mademoiselle.

- It is my duty to answer the door

- You're not a policeman either

Patron?

Have they been and gone?

- Yes, they were pretty quick.

I've just been going through the desk

- Meddling in what doesn't concern him

- He used a lot of patent medicines

- Was your uncle worried about his health?

- All old people are
worried about their health.

- His doctor visited him regularly

- Doctor Orgos

- Now, these letters,
where did he keep them?

- All his correspondence
he kept in that cabinet

- You have no right to open that.

- I have a duty to open it

- Nothing in there has any
bearing upon his death

- Perhaps not, but he's dead

- Traitor to your family.

- She doesn't understand yet

- Is there a key to this?

- These were found in his pockets

- As you say, the letters.

Well, what are they going to tell me”?

- The majority will be signed Issie.

- Issie, a woman?

- Isabelle De Vivonne.

- Vivonne?
- The princess De Vivonne

- That name was in the
paper a couple of days ago

- The day before yesterday, her husband,

the prince died after
a fall from his horse.

- in the bois de Boulogne.

- And the funeral is today

- How old is the princess?

- About six years younger than my uncle

- 71, was she ever his mistress?

- I gather not.

- This letter goes back to 1912.

- The year of her marriage.

- Is this her?

- As she was, yes

- Beautiful.

Where does she live?

- Rue De Lorraine
- Rue De Lorraine.

That's just around the corner

Why did they write all these letters”

- They wrote to each other every day

- Monsieur, would you sit down please?

I think you'd better explain
this whole thing to me

from the beginning.

- The princess is a daughter
of the duke De Saint Valery

- Ch yes, I learned about him at Elysee

- About his great-great grandfather,

the Constable of France.

- Yes well, let's come to the present day

- We have to start in 1910.

That is when my uncle first met her.

He was a young diplomat
and they fell in love

- Why didn't she marry him~

- Well, he hadn't much money

He was about to go to Saint
Petersburg as third secretary

And by the time he came back in 1912

she'd married the prince.

- But she didn't love him?

- Ch no, it was an arranged marriage

- Why did she agree?

- Her duty fo her father.

It was a question of an alliance
between two great families

- Was there a son?

- Yes, Philippe

- But she loved your uncle?

- Yes.

- And she went on loving him
after she'd married the prince”

- Yes, as he loved her

- So there's just a possibility
that the princess's son

is not the prince's son?

- There is no possibility whatsoever.

- [Maigret] Why not?

- She was in love with my uncle

- Yes, monsieur, I'm suggesting that

he was your uncle's son.

- Oh no.

- [Maigret] Why so certain”

- Because my uncle went
to Takyo in January, 1914

and remained that until December, 1918

The princess's child was
born in October, 1916.

- All right.

But surely they must have
met from time to time?

- He told me never.

They were both strict
Catholics and she did not

think it would be right
while the prince was alive

- Now the prince is dead

Died two days ago in the bois de Boulogne.

- Yes.

- So if your uncle was still alive,

there would now be nothing to prevent him

from meeting the princess.

- Or marrying

- Are you your uncle's heir?

- To the estate, yes

Jaquette has a pension out of it

and the princess has his furniture.

- Did you shoot him”

- No.

- You don't seem very
surprised at the question

- Well I knevs that's
what you rere thinking

when you asked me about the estate

- Where were you last night, monsieur?

- Nowhere special, at home

- Thank you, mensieur

- Pretty cool customer

- Cool, no, cold

{telephone rings)

- Yes?
No, hold on.

It's for you.

- Maigret.

Yeah, no
Ne, no, no

Not yet

- The press?
- Yeah.

They're onto it

- Are there any political implications?

- There aren't any
implications at all, Lucas

The old man's sitting
here in his dressing gown,

the old woman's through
there, probably asleep

And whoever comes in is let
in by the count himself.

- Or has a key.

- Perhaps, either way it's
someone who knows him very well

- He doesn't offer them a drink.

- I don't know.

- Well, fingerprints dusted
just the moment they arrived

There's only his prints on it

- Cognac

- There's a bottle in the cupboard.

- Well, perhaps the
visitor refused a drink.

Perhaps there wasn't even
time to offer one after all.

All we know for certain is
that whoever the visitor was

put four bullets into the old man

And now we're involved
with dukes and princesses

and half the almanack (indistinct).

Morgue, Maigret here.

Any news yet on the old man we sent you?

No. no, no, not a full report

Just time of death,
type of bullets, so on

I see.

Thank you very much

He died around midnight

The first shot killed him,

and all the bullets came from
a nine millimetre revolver.

- Probably his own

- Yeah.

But it also means that whoever shot him

had time to pick up the
empty cases afterwards

or we'd have found them.

- It doesn't sound like panic.

- No, sounds more like hatred

I wonder if the answer is in here.

- I picked up the nearest thing

This thing, and I hit
her with it, and then

I don't know what happened then.

- You hit her another 10 times with it.

- Torrance.
- Yes, patron

You wait here, I haven't
finished with you yet

Your man's talked.

- Did he?
What was it, jealousy?

- So he says.

- Well, he should know

- Well, he was living on her eamings

- Doesn't make any difference

Nothing stops jealousy.

- I'll take his statement then.

- No, just a minute

My home number, please

Have Lachenal or somebody do that.

I want you to do relieve Lucas

- Right, patron

- Yes, it's me

Sergeant Lucas will be
dining with us tonight

- Hello Torrance.

- You happy?
- Bored.

- Well, I'm the takeover

- Good.

- And you want to take
the rest of the letters

and go over to the patron's apartment

- Ch, I hope my friend,
mademoiselle, doesn't catch me

- Well, you've got a
perfect right to take them

- Try explaining that

Ah, mademoiselle

Well, I was just talking about you

You can be rest assured that

the moment I start to
do something I shouldn't

you will come along and catch me

Nevermind.

You'll be pleased to see the
last of the police, won't you?

Lots of bad types really

It's time to say au revoir.

Torrance, may I introduce
mademoiselle Jaquette Larrieu

Sergeant Torrance

Au revoir.

- Afternoon, mademoiselle.

- If you wish to smoke,
please ask me for an ashtray

Now why they allow you to do
so on duty I cannot imagine

And please tell the police
officer at the entrance

that I'm to be allowed ta go out

- Where do you wish to go”?

- To church
- Which church?

- Saint Dominique

- Oh, all right

- It would do you no harm to accompany me

- My duty forces me to remain here.

- Freemason.

- Andre.

Oh, it's all right, she can go.

Andre.

- Sergeant.

- You will accompany her

- These look to be
important official ones

These are some more persanal ones

- Clemenceau's signature.

- That should be of value to a collector.

- Poincaré.

President Wilson.

Who was Ramsey MacDonald”?

- Some Englishman

- Well, it's the perscnal ones
we're really interested in

- These are the early ones here

Shall I read one?

- Yeah, read me some

- "This afternoon I had
a long talk with Hubert."

- Her husband?

- No, no, her fiance,
she wasn't married then.

- All right.

- "l was completely honest with him

"and told him that I love you

"That too many obstacles stand in our way

"and that in marrying him I'm
obeying my father's wishes."

- I don't believe it.

Must be the way you read.

Here, here, try

- "He has been wonderfully
understanding and has promised

"that never in our marriage

"will he trespass upon that domain

"which is truly yours."

- Well, if that means
what I think it means

when you unwrap it, I
don't see how the princess

could have a son.

- "I for my part have promised
never to see you again."

- It's unbelievable.

- I think it's beautiful.

- I can't believe it, can you believe it?

- After a day with Jaquette
I can believe anything

- Like those awful
novels your sister reads

- I see nothing wrong in fine sentiments

- They're not fine, they're forced

Nobody behaves like this

- If you want me to lay the
table I'll have to clear it.

- Well let's have some
food, good honest food

- Hello, this boulevard is mentioned

- What, Richard Lenoir?

- Yes, August, 1914.

Well, well, she watched
her husband's regiment

march down to and in trains
at the front at Gare...

Vincennes.

Can't read it quite

"When they were in the train

"they allowed us on the platform

"and we waved goodbye to them

"The soldiers looked so young

"when they sang Madelon
as the train drew out.”

{Madame Maigret hums)

Ah, he won the Croix de Guerre
at the Chemin des Dames.

- I had an uncle killed there.

- Her father was killed at (indistinct)

Well, this will explain the son

Madame, you're better at this than I am.

- "While Julien was alive
Hubert was not worried about

"the family name surviving,

"but now he feels it is his
duty and mine to provide an heir

"to the prince De Vivonne."

- There is no princedom.

- "I have spent the night in prayer

"and this morning consulted
my spiritual advisor

"He leaves me in no doubt
as to where my duty lies"

- Oh Lord.

- God be praised, it's a boy

- The sacrifice was not in vain.

Well, I expect old Hubert prayed
for a few daughters first.

- I think you're horrid.

- Yes I am, you know why?

- All the unpleasant people
you have to deal with

- Murderers.

- And thieves and bad women.

- They feel as other people feel

These people aren't
real, they're not true

Nobody believes it

- Well you can't be certain of that.

- Ch yes I can

These came from the morgue.

Four nickel plated bullets.

Now the old man who was the recipient

of all his high fluent sentiment

was also the recipient of these

And whoever gave them to him,
knew him very well indeed

(dramatic music)

What year have you reached?

- 1928, the prince is consoling himself,

- With whom?

- It doesn't say, simply,
"Poor H has a new infatuation

"and I think she's causing him trouble

"And he grows thinner every day."

I know what she means.

- She's worried about
the count in this one.

He's in Cuba.

"I knows the women are
beautiful and I'm so far away

"I tremble at the thought

"that one day you might fall in love."

- She talks a lot about her son.

Says he looks just like the count.

- That's absurd.

- She says it's miraculous

- Well, I'l be seeing her tomorrow

(Lucas yawns)

You better go and get a
taxi down to the Bastille.

- Yeah, that's a good idea

It's been a long day.

Oh, will you thank madame again
for a really excellent meal”?

- You've earned it, Lucas

And don't let all this
give you indigestion

- Goodnight, patron.
- Goodnight, Lucas

- It's two o'clock.

- I thought you were asleep

- I woke up when Lucas went.

- Boils
- What?

- He had boils in Buenos Aires in 1932.

She worried about him.

- Well of course, I worry about you

- Well, you're my wife.

- Be nice to her when you see her.

- Wouldn't I be?

- You were angry.

- Well, I'm not at home
with this religion,

honour, family name

It doesn't tie up with murder.

And besides
- What?

- I haven't met a woman like
this since I was a child.

When I went up to the
chateau with my father

fo see the old countess of Saint Cyriaque

she'd summoned me into the
salon and given me a chocolate

Tomorrow I shall feel as
if I'm in shorts again.

- Do you want me to stay”?

- No.

You better wait next door
in case he wants you

- Why should he want me”?

- You are the prince De Vivonne

- But I know nothing of Armand's death

- Of course not, but he may
want you to tell him so

Go along now otherwise I
shall have to introduce you

and then he won't knows
which of us to question

- Chief inspector Maigret

with the criminal justice department.

- Thank you

Chief inspector.
- Hello.

- Well do sit down.
- Thank you.

- This is most shocking news
about Armand de Saint-Hilaire.

- When did you hear it, madame?

- This morning

His nephew, Alain Mazeron telephoned me

Apparently he didn't
like to tell me yesterday

because of my husband's funeral.

Has Armand been taken to the morgue”

- Yes
- I should like to see him.

Can you arrange that”?

- That can be arranged

- Did he suffer?

- He was killed outright.
- In his study?

- Yes.

- Sitting at his desk?

- Correcting the proofs of his book

If I might ask a question, madame?

- Of course.

- Have you ever been to his house?

- Once when he was out,
Jaquette let me in

It was naughty,

but I wanted to be able to see
him against his background

I suppose you read my letters to him?

- Ah, yes

- Would you like to read his to me?

- Not at the moment, thank you

Are there as many?

- Quite as many

One a day during the last few years.

- Did you receive one yesterday morning?

- No, I didn't expect one
till after the funeral,

it would have been lacking in tact.

- Yeah.

What would your future
relationships have been”?

- We should have married as
soon as I was out of mourning

- Would his nephew have minded?

- Alain Mazeron?
He expected it

His inheritance would
not have been affected.

- And Jaquette?

- She looked forward to it.

- Are you sure she wasn't jealous?

- Not of me, of other women, yes

- Do you think she was ever

- His mistress?

Certainly, he told me so.

- In a letter?
- Why not?

- You didn't mind?

- Oh no, that meant nothing

- [Maigret] And now?
- Now we are old.

- Did your son know that
you intended to remarry?

- Everyone knew

- How did he feel about it?

- You can ask him if you
like, he's in the next room

- Thank you, if I may

- I'l call him.

- Just one more question, madame

Where were you the night before last?

- Here
- Alone?

- Except for the servants, the
doctor, a priest, two nuns

and of course, Hubert's body

Philippe

The inspector would like to speak to you

Offer him a glass of port.

If you want me again,
inspector, ring for the butler

- Port?

- [Maigret] No, thank you

- Cigarette”

- No, I only smoke & pipe

- So do I, except here.

- You don't live here?

- No, I have an estate in Normandy

We've only come up for the funeral

- You and your wife?

- And the children.

- How many?
- Six.

- All here?

- No, no, we're staying at the Crillon,

mama can't stand the children.

The noise and the mess, you know?

As a matter of fact, the Crillon
don't care for them either.

- Did you know that your
mother intended to remarry?

- Yes.

- [Maigret] And how do you feel about it?

- I didn't mind.

- Did anyone mind?

- My wife thought it
was a bit of a comedown,

dropping a rank

I don't see that it matters myself.

I wish I could get back to Normandy,

the hay is all ready to get in

- Where were you the night
before last, monsieur?

- The night before last?

Oh, when de Saint-Hilaire died

Well here till about 10.

- And then?

- My wife and I went back to the hotel

- Yeah.
- My wife went to bed

- And you?

- I went for a walk
- Where?

- Champs Elysees
- Till when?

- Till about half past 12

- Aleng walk
- Yes

- Up and down the Champs Elysees?

- More or less.

I suppose I ought to tell you the truth.

- [Maigret] You ought

- Well, you'll see I'm
living down in Normandy.

It's very much in the country

It's & small place

Everyone knows, well,
you can't do anything

without everyone knowing.

So when I come up to Paris, I relax a bit

- Her name, monsieur?

- Veronique
- Description?

- Dark. small, said she came from Lille

She lived in a hotel in the Rue De Berri.

- Thank you, mensieur

We'll check that.

- I'd rather my wife didn't know.

- [Maigret] Well, naturally

- She wouldn't understand.

Girl like that with an accent.

You see my wife's a little bit of a snob

- No, no, not in here.

Lucas.

- Patron, I brought
the pathologist report

According to him, the count was in

very good health for a man of his age

- And the only fingerprints in his room

were his own and Jaquette's

- Patron, I checked on
that girl you phoned about,

Veronique Blanchard

She remembers the man you described

- She would.

- How is the princess?

- Honest and with a watertight alibi

Nowy it looks as if her
son has got one too

That leaves only Mazeron and
Jaquette who knew him well

- Oh, that Jaquette's a (indistinct).

- Yes, and a jealous one,

but I don't think she's ever
fired a gun in her life

- Well we can always find out.

- We could, how?

- Yes, there's that test they do

down at the technical branch.

With a paraffin wax.

- Every revolver fired
leaves traces of powder

on the firer's fingers.

Now cover the fingers
with wax, peel it off

and you find the traces
of powder on the wax,

provided you do it soon enough.

- Well then let's do it.

Get on to Moers or
someone to tell him to go

all round all of them.

- But mind you, it only proves
that they fired a revolver

- Well that's all right, it's enough

What have this family
got to do with firearms?

- Alain Mazeron sells them.

- Yes, he does indeed

- Should we start with him?

- No, finish with him

I think I'll have another word with him.

He might tell me a lie.

- May I put on my rings?

- Yes, madame

- Quite fascinating.

I feel like a criminal.

Am I one?

- I don't think so, madame

- You were lucky to find me in

I've been at an auction at the
hotel Deauville this morning

Not a bad little collection.

Mostly Imperial Guard

- Monsieur Mazeron, do you have a gun?

- Plenty of guns, yes

There's a musket from
the field of Waterloo.

- No, I mean a revolver

- Nothing modern, I don't
deal in modern weapons at all

Here's a nice little
pair of duelling pistols

- Have you fired a pistol recently?

- Oh yes.
- You have?

- Yes, one of these as a matter of fact

I bought them at a sale a few days ago

I was cleaning this one and it went off.

It must've been left loaded
for a hundred years or more

- Where's the bullet?

- In the ceiling

You wouldn't think it
could happen would you?

But it does quite often

I dare say they're in a
hurry to pack them away

and nobody realised it hadn't been fired

Well, they wouldn't, you see,

because they're generally fired together

out of these affairs of honour.

This was the loser's.

{telephone rings)

Hello, Mazeron

Yes he is, it's for you

- Thank you

Maigret.

Yes, Lucas

- We've carried out the test on

mademoiselle Jaquette Larrieu

I'm very much afraid it was positive

Yes, positive.

No, no, she's definitely fired a revolver

within the last 48 hours.

(dramatic music)

{wistful music)

- Sit down, mademoiselle

Lucas, bring up an armchair

- Mademoiselle.

- Thank you, Terrance

I have here a warrant for
your provisional arrest

You will be charged with
the murder of your employer

based on information
received from the test

just carried out by our technical branch

Have you anything to say”?

We know that you fired
a revolver recently

Where is it now, in the Seine?

Oh, we shall find it.

Now would you like to
tell me what happened?

Or shall I tell you?

Oh, this is what I think happened

You gave the greater part of your life

in the service of the count,

and the two of you were as
close as any two people can be

You didn't mind him
writing to the princess,

but it was a very different matter

when quite suddenly she was
in a position to marry him

You saw yourself no longer
a housekeeper but a servant

The night before last,

after let's say a nervous
crisis, a quarrel perhaps,

you took his own revolver
and you shot him

You then disposed of the
revolver and you waited

until morning before reporting the murder

Would you prefer mineral water to beer?

- I'm not thirsty or hungry

- Well, you will be,

because you're going to
stay here until you talk

- [ never eat meat.

- Terrance, sort her
some cheese sandwiches.

- There's no point, I eat very little.

The old don't need much food.

- You have nothing to fear,
Jaquette, mademoiselle

Your emotional state will
be taken into consideration.

Would you rather speak to me alone?

Would you like a lawyer?

Can we get you a lawyer?

Or the princess De Vivonne?

- No.

- You realise that other
people have been suspected

because of your silence
and may still be suspected?

- Patron, there's a
boy in the waiting room

who wants ta see you

- I don't want to see
anyone, send him away

- He's connected with the case.

- Julien De Vivonne.

Who's he, new prince's son?

- His eldest son.

- Yes, well I would like
to ask him some questions

Take mademoiselle next door.

- Mademoiselle.

- would like to see a priest

- To confess?

- For advice.

The Abbé Barraud of Saint
Dominique is my spiritual advisor.

- The number of the presbytery?

- I believe, 28-96

- Take mademoiselle next door
- Mademoiselle

- Father Barraud?

Yeah, chief inspector
Maigret, Quai des Orfevres

One of your parishioners,
mademoiselle Larrieu

is in need of your help

Could you take a taxi
and come around at once?

Thank you

Beer.

- Well, she's not giving
much away, is she?

- We've had some tough cases in here

but that old woman is
the toughest of the lot

If she doesn't want to
talk, she'll never talk

All right, let's see this boy.

- Monsieur, this way, please.

- I'm sorry if I seemed impatient

but I've got a lecture in half an hour.

- Glass of beer?
- No thanks.

- Well, now

- I missed you at my grandmother's

otherwise I would have told you then.

It's about the last time
I visited my uncle Armand

- Uncle Armand?

- Well, that's what I called him

- You knew him well?

- Yes, I met him at a friend's house,

at a reception, and he
asked me to visit him

- Did your grandmother, the princess know”?

- No, she had told me all about him

and even shown me some of his letters.

Although only the ones about politics

He wrote very well

- Do your parents know?

- Nobody knew

- Except Jaquette.

- Oh, of course, she let me in

But she's very discreet.

- Shes.

- You see, there was no real
harm in our being friends

But uncle Armand felt that
my grandfather might find it

lacking in tact.

- How often did you go there?

- Once or twice a week.

- Since when?

- About 18 months ago

- When was the last time?

- The day before he died

- After your grandfather's death?

- I told him the news.

- And what did he say?

Oh, you knew that he was hoping
to marry your grandmother?

- Yes.

- And what did he say?

- He was upset
- At the death”?

- It was sudden.

- Did it worry him?
- In a way

He seemed afraid
- Of whom?

- I don't know, but he
said something like,

"It won't be allowed."

- It won't be allowed.

Can you remember the exact words?

- I'm trying to

I said, "I suppose you'll marry Mimi

"after her year's mourning is over?"

And he said, "No

"No, after all these years of waiting,

"I'm net going to be allowed to do that."

- Nothing more”

- Nothing.

- What time of day was this?

- Early evening

- Well, thank you very much

- I don't know if it helps.

- Just to see somebody young
on this case is a help

Don't be late for your lecture

- Thank you.
- Thank you

- That's more than Jaquette told us

- I want to know what it meant.

- The priest's here

- [Maigret] What's he like?

- Well, he's the oldest of the lot.

- Well, at least he was quick

- It's not far.

- It's 1,000 kilometres,
Lucas, and 500 years

What's going on out there?

- Talk.

- Oh, that's more than she's doing here

(knocking at door)

Yes?

- May 7?
- Yes, come in

Of course, father.

- Jaquette.
- Mademoiselle.

- Clear the tray, Terrance.

- Mademoiselle wished to consult me on

a delicate point of conscience

I can't give her a complete answer

but I have persuaded her
to tell you all she knows

- You've been more successful than I have.

- Well, it was in my
province rather than yours.

She was afraid the count would not receive

a Christian burial.

So she was not going to talk
until after the funeral

- It was suicide?
- Yes.

Tell them, Jaquette, tell them the truth.

- I was asleep and the shot woke me up

And, and

- You went into the room
and found the count dead.

- With this awful wound.

- [Maigret] Where was the revolver?

- On the floor beside him.

- What did you do?

- I fetched the looking
glass from my bedroom,

held it in front of his mouth.

- [Maigret] He was dead?

- Yes, and I thought of the disgrace

and how they would bury
him, like, like a heathen.

So I thought I'd make it look

as if somebody else had done it

Only until after the funeral

That was all I wanted for him.

He was such a good man.

- We may be able to assume repentance

even at the final instant.

- Tell me the rest.

- I picked up the pistol and fired it

again and again without looking.

Then I took it out and
threw it into the river

with the empty cartridges.

- Where?

- Pont De La Concorde,
somevvhere near the middle.

- Why did the count shoot himself?

- He had pain

He was afraid.

He thought it was malignant.

- But the doctors said he was
in exceptionally good health

- His own doctor told him that,
but he wouldn't believe him.

He would buy all those patent medicines

hoping they would do him some good.

But they only made him feel worse

Poor man.

He thought it was malignant.

- You may go

- But I have done wrong

- Yes.

You committed at least three
offences, all of them serious

but I don't think you'll
commit them again

- Mademoiselle.

- What do we do with the file?

- Close it.

- Nothing in it

- Nope, nothing at all

{wistful music)

- Well, just to round off the day,

here's the report on that
cafe shooting yesterday

The man said the girl was
drunk and he was sober,

the girl said she was sober
and he was smoking reefers

- What did the barman have to say”?

- He says they must
have both been drunk or

they'd have hit him

- Excuse me, chief inspector

- Madame.

- We are sorry to come so late,

but we felt we should
place this information

in front of you

- We know that the
count committed suicide.

- This will explain the reason

- We know the reason.

- I hardly think so

- "My dear Issie."

- You'll excuse me, I'm sure

- May I keep this for a few moments”

- For as long as you like

- "My dear Issie,

"I have felt for some months

“that there is a very
short time left to me.

"I got to bed, I think of you

"after all our years of courtship

"marrying at last a dying man,

"and rather than present you
vith such a sorry anticlimax

"I'm writing this one last letter.

"I've addressed it to my lawyer

"who is instructed to pass it to you

"My love you know you have

"That at least can never die.

"Good night, dear Issie."

I might've known

It couldn't have been
anything as simple as fear

- Not with those people

- Well, Lucas,

let's go and get some beer,
find some real criminals.