Narcisse Vermeer

In Crimes haute couture, the France Televisions adaptation of Third Girl, Narcisse Vermeer is a businessman and owner of the Maison Paget fashion house. There is no real parallel with any character in the original novel. Narcisse is portrayed by Laurent Richard.

The son of a miner, Vermeer had a none too successful previous career as a boxer under the name "Nacisse le Flamand" (15 victories, 56 defeats, 45 of the latter knockouts). He then retired and took to owning casinos, gambling dens, race horses and the Maison Paget fashion house. Of the latter, he says it is only a trinket which he picked up for his daughter Françoise who is a model there. Laurence later learnt that Narcisse had been using the fashion house to launder money. Narcisse was also considered a suspect in the murder of Paco Gomez. Narcisse had been suspected of fixing boxing matches for which Gomez was a bookie. Gomez could have been blackmailing him, giving him a motive for murder.