Maigret Episode: "The Wedding Guest"

[Bert45]

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?

[douglas9401]

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g196579-d10676979-Reviews-Aux_Trois_Marronniers-Nanterre_La_Defense_Hauts_de_Seine_Ile_de_France.html

[Buenchico]

I love these sort of challenges!

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:
https://tinyurl.com/yc58e4br

However, if you've got a Kindle (or you've got the free Kindle app on your PC or another device), you can purchase the book in its Kindle edition for £5.49 in order to fully answer your question:
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendationref=sr_1_1?keywords=9791041001200&linkCode=qs&qid=1699222321&s=books&sr=1-1

[Buenchico]

I doubt that the restaurant that Douglas mentions is the one that featured in Maigret.  It's within La Défense, which is Europe's largest purpose-built business district and which didn't even exist at the time that Maigret was being filmed.

[douglas9401]

Even massive business districts have to start somewhere.

[Buenchico]

^^^ 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:
https://auxtroismarronniers.wordpress.com/

[Bert45]

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?

[Buenchico]

^^^ Well, the Bd Victor Hugo now definitely seems to fit the bill, as we know for sure that a restaurant with the right name was there in 1950.