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 businessman and amateur archaeologist who developed the idea of ley lines. Life Watkins was born in Hereford to an affluent family which had moved to the town in 1820 to establ ...

, concerning

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

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 ...

, 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 ...

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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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