![]() This inflexibility made him a pretty terrible Jean Valjean later that year in the big budget adaptation of Les Misérables, but these qualities work in his favor as Maigret. In his later postwar films, movie roles seem to adjust to Gabin's screen persona rather than the other way around, his chiseled stone-like features becoming a kind of French monument. Iconic French star Jean Gabin plays Police Inspector Maigret. In that sense the film hardly seems dated at all, and overall compares favorably to the very best murder mysteries made for British television in recent years. A French-Italian co-production, the film is handsomely made, features good performances, and perhaps most importantly is far franker and more explicit about the sexual aspects contained in the story than would ever passed Hollywood's Production Code at the time. ![]() For mystery fans, Maigret Sets a Trap ( Maigret tend un piège, 1958) exceeds expectations. ![]()
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Urn:lcp:reformationineng0002merl:epub:f677ce9f-d54a-4dd9-af11-1e92a1a9c413 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier reformationineng0002merl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s237qp9n4xv Invoice 1652 Isbn 0851510590ĩ780851510941 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9815 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000517 Openlibrary_edition In this hostile intellectual climate, dAubigns work again provides a means for Christians to place themselves in history. Urn:lcp:reformationineng0002merl:lcpdf:bd9a5df0-cf23-482e-9c88-58a8c54387e6 Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794 - 1872) Translated by Henry Beveridge (1837 - 1929) The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, by Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubign, is a classic work on the great events that re-opened the Christian gospel to a needy world. 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