Commissioner Jules Maigret's eyes "smile" as he has breakfast, accompanied by his wife, because life is "pleasant". They are both at the house in Meung-sur-Loire that they have been fixing up for years for the day Maigret has to retire. The 55-year-old man has two years and a few months left before leaving the police force, and this is perhaps the only regret he feels amidst the summer calm and the promise of lobster with mayonnaise for lunch. This is how "Maigret's Patience, novel by Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 - Lausanne, 1989) which has just ceased to be unpublished in Catalan thanks to the small and exquisite Barcelona publishing house Días Contados, launched in 2009 by lawyer Ramon Girbau.