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I have watched "The Wedding Guest", an episode of the Rupert Davies Maigret from 1962. There was a scene where Maigret chanced upon James, played by Philip Latham at a café/bar called "Aux Trois Marronniers". It looked as though it was the real name of the café/bar – not a set or a real place with its real name covered up. So I thought I'd try to find it. I couldn't. Obviously, at some time in the intervening 61 years, the place has closed or changed its name. Can you locate it?
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It was listed under 'Victor-Hugo Neuilly' (as the district that it was in) in the guidebook "101 Bons Petits Restaurants de Paris...: Où l'on Mange Bien Pour 1.000 Francs à Deux" in 1950. That seems to suggest that it was on the Bd Victor Hugo in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Unfortunately, the Google Books preview doesn't include the page which holds the full address and menu details:
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^^^ Yes, but they started bulldozing everything that was already there from 1958 onwards. I'd be very surprised if a bar/restaurant from that period still survived within La Défense. The current brasserie with that name doesn't look particularly old to me:
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I should have mentioned that the bars of the same name that can be found on Google Maps and viewed with Streetview look nothing like the one filmed in 1962. I can't do a screenshot from the TV and make it appear here. The current one mentioned by Buenchico was founded in 2016, so he was right – it's not very old. I believe it must have been in Paris, as the buildings and traffic look so Parisienne. Isn't the Maigret theme tune just the best theme tune ever?
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