Xavier Guichard (1870–1947) was a French Director of Police,

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and writer. His 1936 book ''Eleusis Alesia: Enquête sur les origines de la civilisation européenne'' is an early example of speculative thinking concerning

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, based on his observations of apparent alignments between Alesia-like place names on a map of France.Francis Hutching: ''The World Atlas of Mysteries'', Pan Books (1978), pages 77-80. His theories are analogous to those of his near-contemporary in the United Kingdom,

Alfred Watkins Alfred Watkins (27 January 1855 – 15 April 1935) was an English author, self-taught amateur archaeologist, antiquarian and businessman who, while standing on a hillside in Herefordshire, England, in 1921 experienced a revelation. He notice ...

, concerning

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s. Xavier Guichard appears as a character in the novels of

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...

, where he is the superior of the fictional detective

Jules Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created b ...

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1870 births 1947 deaths 20th-century French archaeologists French male non-fiction writers Sacred geometry {{France-archaeologist-stub

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