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Poirot's Age
Deciding on the age of Hercule Poirot can be a little tricky. Some say he lives to by the time of his last novel (found in various reference books and amongst Agatha Christie scholars/experts).
Youtube hercule poirot full episodes: Achille Poirot is also mentioned by Dr. Norma Restarick in Third Girl changes her mind about speaking to Poirot because she found him to be "too old". Hercule Poirot owes his success as a detective to the experience gained during his work as a police officer and to his characteristics such as self-confidence and scrupulousness. Towards the end of his career, it becomes clear that Poirot's retirement is no longer a convenient fiction.
Christie said in her An Autobiography (finished in ): "What a terrible mistake I had made in starting with Hercule Poirot so old--I ought to have abandoned him after the first three or four books, and begun again with someone much younger" (italicized "old" was included in text). She also made a mistake, she said, with making Poirot a retired police offer.
She also says in her autobiography: "Not too young a one. What a mistake I made there. The result is that my fictional detective must really be well over a hundred by now." Indeed Hercule Poirot was! Let's discuss his age a little further.
In Three Act Tragedy, Poirot said he was to retire from the Belgian police force at the time WWI began.
That meant if the age of sixty was for retirement, then Poirot would have been born around That meant Poirot was a refugee in England at age 62 roughly (in the year ) when Arthur Hastings saw him at Styles. During the period of his "retirement" (if he even did retire), the first World War was being waged. Did Poirot get sidetracked, perhaps brought into the resistance?
That is the question Anne Hart poses in her book The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot. As recounted in the Poirot novel Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot owed gratitude to a French general for saving his life.
Hercule poirot birthdate episode In Dumb Witness , he regales us with stories of his elderly invalid mother as a pretense to investigate the local nurses. I always felt that a difference of at least 30 years were between him and his friend Poirot, too. Poirot and, it is reasonable to suppose, his creator becomes increasingly bemused by the vulgarism of the up and coming generation's young people. The names of the people who definitely did not commit the crime are also included.The General had mentioned again to the detective "of France, of Belgium, of glory, of honor", but stops just short of mentioning World War I. Was Hercule a resistance fighter, having escaped to France? King Albert I of Belgium himself in the short story "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" recommended Poirot's services: capable of saving a missing prime minister from the enemy.
Is it possible that Poirot provided services for the Belgian throne before? Maybe Poirot gained incredible skills in the resistance, not just in the police force. This is, of course, harmless hypothesis. If this were all true, then how exhausting it would have been for our Belgian sleuth!
That would make sense for his desire to retire before The Murder of Roger Ackroyd when he was 72 (in , when the story was published).
He vowed to retire after his "Twelve Labors" (the stories were published in , but collected in ). He was already aged 93 then!
Hercule poirot birthdate cast Poirot was apparently born in Spa, Belgium and, based on the conjecture that he was thirty at the time of his retirement from the Belgian police force at the time of the outbreak of the First World War, it is suggested that he was born in the mids. Apart from that, in Death on the Nile Poirot also seems to be emotionally affected, this time, by the suspect. Poirot's being a Belgian, unlike the above-mentioned models, is clearly the result of the first book being written in though only published in Sign In Don't have an account?Poirot clearly went into semi-retirement, taking only cases that intrigued him. That would have him aged when he appears in his last story Curtain (published ).
Christie was careful to age Poirot slowly (she was wise to!). She didn't know when Curtain was to be published (it had been in a vault for some 30+ years).
Norma Restarick in Third Girl () changes her mind about speaking to Poirot because she found him to be "too old". Indeed! In the novel Hallowe'en Party, Poirot admitted to ex-policeman Spence that they were "both old men"; however, Poirot confessed that he still dyed his hair black!
Hercule poirot birthdate Poirot takes a small bottle out of a dustbin in the kitchen and pretends to have a cold. That would make sense for his desire to retire before The Murder of Roger Ackroyd when he was 72 in , when the story was published. His occupation is being a detective whose job is rather static. His first published appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles published and his last was in Curtain published , the year before Christie died.Agatha Christie met two necessities in choosing Poirot to dye his hair black every now and then: 1) it continued to keep the characterization and vanity of the character and 2) it aged Poirot slower in years because he didn't display gray hair.
Further Calculations
In the book The Agatha Christie Companion, Sanders and Lovallo say one could use an "age formula" to determine Poirot's age.
They say Christie employed a 3 to 2 ratio in her books, meaning that Poirot ages about 2 years for every 3 calendar years. I calculate then that if Poirot was 62 in , when he came across the English Channel, he would've been (so young!) at the time of Curtain. My calculation only assumes if the counting started from (when The Mysterious Affair at Styles was written).
The authors of The Agatha Christie Companion say this same ratio/method can be applied to Poirot's friend Captain Arthur Hastings as well.
Calculating Hastings' age, they said, would make him in his 60s in Curtain.
Hercule poirot books in order At the time of writing, at least of the earlier books where the character was defined, non-Belgians such as Agatha Christie were far less aware than nowadays of the deep linguistic divide in Belgian society. Burton in the prelude to The Labours of Hercules. Taking into consideration the fact that Miss Garnet is a friend of the suspect, Poirot may not want to hurt her feelings by proving that Donovan Bailey is guilty. Christie said in her An Autobiography finished in : "What a terrible mistake I had made in starting with Hercule Poirot so old --I ought to have abandoned him after the first three or four books, and begun again with someone much younger" italicized "old" was included in text.Hastings clearly states in The Mysterious Affair at Styles that he was 30 years old. That was So . . .
if I started calculating at and I assigned him the age of 30, his calculated age would be 69 for the novel Curtain. I'm so at peace with this. I always pictured Hastings in his 30s when he first narrated Poirot's cases. I always felt that a difference of at least 30 years were between him and his friend Poirot, too.