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63-683: Jo, Zette and Jocko appear on the rear covers of some The Adventures of Tintin comic books, but never appear in the stories. A few Jo, Zette and Jocko comics allude to characters or events in The Adventures of Tintin , such as the Maharaja of Gopal (briefly mentioned in The Castafiore Emerald ) appearing as a prominent character, and a portrait of Captain Haddock in the Legrand house. The following are

126-481: A cast and imposes bed rest. Castafiore then arrives with her maid, Irma, and pianist, Igor Wagner. Castafiore presents Haddock with a pet parrot and fusses over him, to his great discomfort. The magazine Paris Flash claim that Haddock and Castafiore are engaged, on the basis of a misinterpreted interview with Professor Calculus . This results in an avalanche of congratulations from Haddock's friends. A television crew come to Marlinspike Hall to interview Castafiore and

189-538: A comic strip authored by one of the paper's sport columnists, which told the story of two boys, one of their little sisters, and her inflatable rubber pig. Hergé was unsatisfied, and eager to write and draw a comic strip of his own. He was fascinated by new techniques in the medium – such as the systematic use of speech bubbles – found in such American comics as George McManus ' Bringing up Father , George Herriman 's Krazy Kat and Rudolph Dirks 's Katzenjammer Kids , copies of which had been sent to him from Mexico by

252-431: A designer and aviation engineer. Mrs Legrand is Jo and Zette’s mother and also Mr Legrand’s wife. She looks after her children at home. Werner Brooke and Charlie Brooke are the two villains in both volumes of The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko: Mr Pump’s Legacy and Destination New York. Fred Stockrise and William Stockrise are Mr Pump’s two nephews. They are also both villains. Alongside Werner and Charlie Brooke,

315-464: A mysterious photographer, Gino, appears with the crew. Suddenly, Irma informs Castafiore that her jewels have been stolen, and Tintin suspects Gino who runs away during a temporary power cut . Castafiore, however, finds the jewel-case which she herself had misplaced. The next day, an angry Castafiore shows Tintin and Haddock a copy of the magazine Tempo di Roma with a picture of Castafiore taken at Marlinspike Hall without her permission, proving that Gino

378-447: A new variety of white-coloured roses, and names it "Bianca" in honour of Castafiore. At her departure, Calculus presents a bouquet of the roses he created to Castafiore, who happily receives them and embraces Calculus, kissing him in the process. Unlike Haddock, who resents being kissed by Castafiore, Calculus willingly accepts it and blushes. Calculus also makes an imperfect attempt at colour television , which according to Michael Farr ,

441-553: A re-drawing of The Black Island (1938) by Bob de Moor , also making a reappearance in Tintin and the Picaros (1976). The idea of having a proposed marriage between Castafiore and Haddock was based on a reader's suggestion that Haddock marry. On page 17 of the book, Jolyon Wagg mentions Castafiore's Emerald to be a gift from, in his own words, "some character, Marjorie something or other...", to which Castafiore corrects Wagg by saying it

504-413: A robot, a mad scientist, and gullible cannibals. He criticised the characters as being "so colorless that we can hardly bring ourselves to care what befalls them." When discussing its sequel, The Stratoship H-22 , he thought that it had been "conceived in almost a single burst" from a "general framework", in this way operating in a more linear fashion than he did with his Adventures of Tintin . He felt that

567-503: A scenario for a new Tintin story. Greg came up with two potential plots: Les Pilules ( The Pills ) and Le Thermozéro . Hergé made sketches of the first eight pages of Le Thermozéro before the project was abandoned in 1960 – Hergé deciding that he wished to retain sole creative control of his work. Sometime after this, Hergé sought to resurrect Le Thermozéro as a Jo, Zette and Jocko adventure and instructed his long-time collaborator Bob de Moor to work on an outline. Bernard Tordeur of

630-459: A trail of red herrings , it failed to match the commercial success of previous volumes due to the experimental nature of its narrative. It was published as a book by Casterman shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Flight 714 to Sydney , while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition . The story was adapted for both

693-754: Is the "Jewel Song" from Charles Gounod 's Faust , is titled "Margarethe", the name by which Gounod's opera is known in Germany but not in England. The Castafiore Emerald was the first book in The Adventures of Tintin that was published in England the same year – 1963 – it was published in Belgium and France. When Hergé read the English version of the book, he found it to be "absolutely delirious" and even suggested to translators Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner: "You really would think that this

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756-447: Is topsy-turvy", with obvious villains being shown to be harmless, and alleged crimes turning out to have not happened. He thought that Haddock was a clear parallel for Hergé himself in the story, representing his own desires and frustrations. Ultimately, he considered the volume to be "Hergé's masterpiece" when it came to technical issues, representing "the high tide of his creative abilities". Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters described

819-559: The Unicorn , originally featured in The Secret of the Unicorn , in a background scene at Marlinspike Hall. The Castafiore Emerald was serialised weekly from 4 July 1961 to 4 September 1962 in Tintin magazine and published in book form as Les Bijoux de la Castafiore by Casterman in 1963. For the English version of the book, the gramophone record that Tintin receives from Castafiore, which

882-456: The paparazzi within the story may have been influenced by his own repeat encounters with the press throughout his career. The reporter and the photographer, Christopher Willoughby-Droupe and Marco Rizotto (Jean-Loup de la Battelerie and Walter Rizotto respectively in the original French version) of the Paris Flash , are introduced into the series here, and would later be retroactively added into

945-475: The "increasingly travel weary" character had long cherished, further stating that if Hergé had decided to end the Tintin series, The Castafiore Emerald would have been "a suitable final volume". He compared the story to the detective novels by Agatha Christie , in that the narrative was "littered from start to finish with clues, most of which are false", misleading both Tintin and the reader. He felt that in setting

1008-508: The 1991 Ellipse / Nelvana animated series The Adventures of Tintin and the 1992–93 BBC Radio 5 dramatisation of the Adventures . Tintin and Captain Haddock are walking through the countryside of Marlinspike when they come across a Romani community camped in a garbage dump , and reunite a lost little girl named Miarka with her family there. The Romani explain that they are not allowed to camp anywhere else so Haddock invites them to

1071-456: The Cobras (La Vallée des cobras) was translated "دره مارها" (Dareh Marha=Valley of Snakes). The Castafiore Emerald The Castafiore Emerald (French: Les Bijoux de la Castafiore ) is the twenty-first volume of The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . It was serialised weekly from July 1961 to September 1962 in Tintin magazine. In contrast to

1134-553: The Fiend on Renard's Poil de carotte . For a great part, the 2008 memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of by the English novelist Julian Barnes is a homage to Jules Renard. Renard is one of several popular philosophers whose quotations appear on the road signs of Project HIMANK in the Ladakh region of northern India. On one such sign in the Nubra Valley , he is quoted as saying, "Laziness

1197-812: The Hergé Foundation has suggested, at the World of Tintin Conference held at the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich on May 15, 2004, that a complete draft outline (similar to what survives of Tintin and Alph-Art ) was completed before the project was terminated This draft version of the book apparently survives in the Tintin Archives. Commenting on The Secret Ray , Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters noted that it "used rather conventional elements to vivid effect", using many clichés from popular novels such as

1260-463: The Romani depart, the police start looking for them. Tintin also investigates Igor Wagner, whose behaviour he finds suspicious, but finds out that the musician is simply sneaking out to indulge in a horse-gambling habit. Castafiore leaves for Milan to perform in the opera La gazza ladra (Italian: The Thieving Magpie ). Tintin realises that the true culprit responsible for the theft of the emerald and

1323-465: The Romani wagons and clothing was closely modelled on photographs of Romani communities that Hergé had consulted, and he depicted members of the group engaged in basket weaving and fortune telling after reading that the Romani engaged in such activities in the Oxford English Dictionary . The book alludes to the well-known French weekly Paris Match in its depiction of the reporters from

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1386-760: The Stockrise brothers also appear in both volumes of The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko: Mr Pump’s Legacy and Destination New York. Beginning a series of newspaper supplements in late 1928, Abbé Norbert Wallez founded a supplement for children, Le Petit Vingtième ( The Little Twentieth ), which subsequently appeared in Le XXe Siècle every Thursday. Carrying strong Catholic and fascist messages, many of its passages were explicitly antisemitic . For this new venture, Hergé illustrated L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet ( The Extraordinary Adventure of Flup, Nénesse, Poussette and Cochonnet ),

1449-509: The Unicorn (1943) to be set entirely in Belgium, and he admitted that with his proposed scenario, it was difficult "to create suspense, a semblance of danger". The titles that Hergé had previously considered for the book were: The Castafiore Affair , Castafiore's Sapphire , The Castafiore Jewels and The Captain and the Nightingale , but The Castafiore Emerald eventually emerged as the favourite. Hergé's depiction of Bianca Castafiore in

1512-446: The band was a cutting of "L'Orpheon France" band. Whenever Castafiore fears her jewels were stolen, her expressions, which involve placing her hands on her face, were influenced by a photograph of her model in real life, Maria Callas , taken by Cecil Beaton in 1957. In page 43 of the book, Tintin is shown reading Robert Louis Stevenson 's novel Treasure Island (1883), which was also one of Hergé's favourite books. The depiction of

1575-429: The book as being "a sort of flashback" for Hergé, allowing him to relive events from his own past; thus, Peeters thought that the constant renovations at Marlinspike represented the constant renovations at Hergé's country home of Céroux-Mousty, while Haddock's time in the wheelchair represented his former wife's Germaine time spent similarly disabled, and Castafiore was a parody of Germaine herself. Ultimately, he felt that

1638-458: The cartoonist Greg . Greg produced two plot outlines, Les Pilulues ("The Pills") and Tintin et le Thermozéro ("Tintin and the Thermozero"). Hergé began drawing the latter of these stories, but soon abandoned it. Instead, he decided to set his new Adventure entirely at Marlinspike Hall, the only installment in the series to do this. This was the first and last adventure after The Secret of

1701-449: The editors, recognising that Cœurs Vaillants was his only foothold in the French market at the time. He later related that "I happened to have some toys at home just then, for an advertising project I was working on, and among them was a monkey named Jocko. And so I based a new little family around Jocko, really just to please the gentlemen from Cœurs Vaillants , telling myself they might have

1764-447: The first time. The 'Manitoba' No Reply (Le Manitoba ne répond plus) was translated with title "آدم آهنی" (Adam Ahani=Iron Man), The Eruption of Karamako (L'Eruption du Karamako) was translated "انفجار کاراماکو" (Enfejareh Karamako), Mr. Pump’s Legacy (Le Testament de Monsieur Pump) was translated "جنون سرعت" (Jonoon Soraat=Speed Maniac), Destination New York (Destination New York) was translated "مقصد نیویورک" (Magsad Neyoyork), The Valley of

1827-465: The five Jo, Zette and Jocko titles, both in English and French, which are published between 1951 and 1957. Jo Legrand is the oldest of the Legrand children. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Legrand. Zette Legrand is the youngest of the Legrand children. She is the sister of Jo Legrand and the daughter of Mr and Mrs Legrand. Jocko is Jo and Zette’s pet chimpanzee. Mr Legrand is Jo and Zette’s father. He works for S.A.F.C.A. (a French Aerospace Company) as

1890-405: The grounds of his estate, Marlinspike Hall . Haddock has been trying to get the local stonemason Arthur Bolt to fix a broken step at Marlinspike, but he is never available. Milanese opera diva Bianca Castafiore invites herself to Marlinspike Hall. Haddock, who dislikes her company, tries to leave before she arrives but trips on the broken step and sprains his ankle. The doctor puts his foot in

1953-458: The magazine Paris Flash and jibes at its reputation for the questionable accuracy of the articles. Hergé's use of the word Paris Flash is also based on a previous encounter of his with the Paris Match when it featured an "error-ridden" article on him. It also mentions a fashion designing company named Tristan Bior, based upon the French luxury goods company, Christian Dior . Andy (André in

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2016-452: The most subtly handled of the adventures; a riot of clues, both real and false, give The Castafiore Emerald an unequaled density", elsewhere referring to it as "a catalogue of mishaps with nothing or no one spared". He described it as having brought to the foreground the "anarchist and non-conformist tendencies of Hergé's work" which had previously been shown in Quick & Flupke . He also saw

2079-404: The original French version), the director of the television crew belonging to the fictional company, Supavision, was compared by Farr to an employee of Belgian Television, Jacques Cogniaux. In a tribute to Auguste Piccard , Calculus' model in real life, Castafiore greets him as a famous balloonist. Hergé also inserted references to previous stories in the narrative; he included the three models of

2142-470: The pages of Le Petit Vingtième . For New Year 1938, Hergé designed a special cover for Le Petit Vingtième in which the characters of Jo, Zette and Jocko were featured alongside those from The Adventures of Tintin and Quick & Flupke . Hergé was unhappy with the series, commenting that its characters "bored me terribly, these parents who wept all the time as they searched for their children who had gone off in all directions. The characters didn't have

2205-469: The panels in the original comic book. In 2015, the story was adapted into a ballad opera , which premiered at Solvay Castle ( Château de La Hulpe ), in La Hulpe , Belgium . The cast included Michel de Warzee as Captain Haddock, Hélène Bernardy as Castafiore, and Amani Picci as Tintin. Jules Renard Pierre-Jules Renard ( pronounced [pjɛʁ ʒyl ʁənaʁ] ; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910)

2268-487: The paper's reporter Léon Degrelle , stationed there to report on the Cristero War . In late 1935 Hergé was visited by Abbot Courtois and Abbot Pihan, the editors of Cœurs Vaillants ("Valiant Hearts"), a French Catholic newspaper that was publishing The Adventures of Tintin . Courtois was often unhappy with elements of Hergé's work, and had recently complained about a scene in his latest story, The Broken Ear , in which

2331-579: The prestigious École normale supérieure , love of literature would eventually dominate his life. From 1885 to 86, he served in the military in Bourges . On 28 April 1888, Renard married Marie Morneau. He and his wife lived at 43 rue du Rocher in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris . He began to frequent literary cafés and to contribute to Parisian newspapers. Among his steady friends were Alfred Capus and Lucien Guitry . Jules Renard wrote poems, short stories, short plays, novels and his famous Poil de carotte . He

2394-495: The previous Tintin books, Hergé deliberately broke the adventure formula he had created: it is the only book in the series where the characters remain at Marlinspike Hall , Captain Haddock 's family estate, and neither travel abroad nor confront dangerous criminals. The plot concerns the visit of the opera singer Bianca Castafiore and the subsequent theft of her emerald. Although The Castafiore Emerald received critical acclaim for its humorous depiction of its characters following

2457-542: The primitive natives of the island of Karamako, similar to Tintin in the Congo ) until 1994 when they were published together in a single limited-edition double volume titled The Secret Ray . While Herge 's Adventures of Tintin were published in early 1970s in Iran, all of The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko books got translated to Farsi and published in early 1980s almost at the same time by "Original"(اوریژینال) publication for

2520-563: The right idea." Taking on Jo, Zette, & Jocko alongside The Adventures of Tintin and Quick & Flupke , Hergé soon found himself overworked, and put the latter series on the back burner. The first Jo, Zette & Jocko adventure was titled The Secret Ray , and began serialisation in Cœurs Vaillants on 19 January 1936. It would continue to appear in the newspaper in installments until June 1937, throughout being printed in red and black. Several months later it also began to appear in

2583-445: The scissors is a magpie . He explains to Haddock that the scissors must have fallen out of the nest only to be found by Miarka. Tintin retrieves the emerald and hands it to Thomson and Thompson, who return it to Castafiore. Sometime later after Calculus, Thomson and Thompson had departed, Bolt mends the broken step, only for Haddock to inadvertently step on it and slip again while the cement is still wet. "When I began this book, my aim

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2646-536: The series' "failure" was not inevitable, as evidence noting that comics series involving families, such as George McManus' Bringing up Father , could be popular. The Valley of the Cobras was the first Jo, Zette and Jocko adventure to be translated and published in English in 1986. Mr Pump’s Legacy and Destination New York followed in 1987. The ‘Manitoba’ No Reply and The Eruption of Karamako remained unpublished (possibly due to Hergé’s unsympathetic depiction of

2709-462: The series. As a result of its "experimental, exceptional nature", Farr believed that The Castafiore Emerald "never gained the public recognition it merits", stating that while attracting "a loyal following" it had not become one of the most popular Adventures of Tintin , something that he thought was "unjust". Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, co-authors of the book, The Pocket Essential Tintin , described Hergé's depiction of Castafiore in

2772-691: The standard set in Tintin in Tibet and thus decides to "deconstruct his own myth and create the antithesis of a Tintin adventure". Given that accidents and bad luck befall most of the characters in the story, Lofficier and Lofficier described the story as "a comedy of errors, a wonderful tribute to Murphy's Law ". Ultimately, they awarded the story four stars out of five. English screenwriter and author of Tintin: Hergé and his Creation (1991), Harry Thompson stated that in The Castafiore Emerald , "everything

2835-528: The story as "a force of nature", praising the way that he depicted her many outfit changes. They described Mr Bolt as being both a " Godot-like character " and as being akin to Basil Fawlty from the British sitcom Fawlty Towers , while adding that the broken step acts "like a Greek God's curse" in the story that affects everyone except Castafiore. They interpreted The Castafiore Emerald as Hergé's Nouveau Roman , in which he realises that he cannot improve upon

2898-406: The story as "the most surprising of Tintin's adventures", with Hergé having been "determined to push his reexamination of the comic strip even further". He noted that in the story, Castafiore's "dramatic femininity" disrupted the "idea of sociability" that pervaded Marlinspike, with its "proper respect of space, a form of harmony in independence". He added that "this casually alluring tale is one of

2961-428: The story entirely at Marlinspike, Hergé "deliberately broke the classic adventure mould he had created", and in doing so "succeeded in creating a masterpiece in the manner of a well constructed stage comedy or farce". Farr viewed the volume as "a tour de force", noting that it was quite dissimilar to any other instalment in The Adventures of Tintin . As such, he felt that it would have been a suitable story on which to end

3024-637: The story was inspired by an occasion on which Hergé came across a Romani gypsy camp near to his country home in Céroux-Mousty. To ensure that his depiction of them had some accuracy, he approached Father Rupert in Verviers , who had some experience with the community, reassuring him that "the episode with the Romas will not pain you". The Castafiore Emerald was also one of the few instances of romance seen in The Adventures of Tintin , which begins when Calculus breeds

3087-405: The story – "the last great adventure of Tintin" – was "also a swan song", for Hergé "did not dare to continue down this path, where not all of his readers had followed him", and which had represented "a permanent loss of innocence". In June 1970, a long article on The Castafiore Emerald by French philosopher and author, Michel Serres , appeared in the literary review, Critique , under

3150-411: The story – a famous opera singer, pursued by the press, and changing her outfit for every occasion – was influenced by the life of the opera singer Maria Callas . One of the new characters that Hergé introduced into the story was the stonemason Arthur Bolt (M. Boullu in the original French version), whose characterisation was based on a real individual who worked for Hergé. Hergé's depiction of

3213-541: The title, Les Bijoux distraits ou la cantatrice sauve . In 1991, a collaboration between the French studio Ellipse and the Canadian animation company Nelvana adapted 21 of the stories into a series of episodes, each 42 minutes long. The Castafiore Emerald was the nineteenth story of The Adventures of Tintin to be adapted. Directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, the series has been praised for being "generally faithful", with compositions having been actually directly taken from

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3276-441: The total freedom enjoyed by Tintin... Think of Jules Renard 's phrase 'Not everyone can be an orphan!' How lucky for Tintin; he is an orphan, and so he is free." Le Thermozéro is the sixth, incomplete, Jo, Zette and Jocko adventure. It began in 1958 as a Tintin adventure of the same name. The Tintin version is also known as Tintin et le Thermozéro . Hergé had asked the French comic book creator Greg (Michel Regnier) to provide

3339-476: The two antagonists drown and are dragged to Hell by demons. On this occasion, he asked Hergé to create new characters who would be more relateable for their young readership. Whereas Tintin had no parents and did not go to school, they wanted a series in which the protagonists had a family and acted more "normal"; they also requested that these characters have their adventures in France. Hergé did not want to displease

3402-487: The virtues of Renard's journal: "The journal is wonderfully good reading. It is extremely amusing. It is witty and subtle and often wise...Jules Renard jotted down neat retorts and clever phrases, epigrams, things seen, the sayings of people and the look of them, descriptions of scenery, effects of sunshine and shadow, everything, in short, that could be of use to him when he sat down to write for publication." The American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino based his 1994 work Red

3465-431: Was "some five years ahead of its day". The incident of the unwelcome band playing outside Marlinspike Hall, called the "Marlinspike Prize Band" (Harmonie de Moulinsart in the original French version), was based on a similar experience of Hergé's who was also obliged to serve a band with drinks. To add insult to injury, they gave a toast to " Spirou ", the cartoon character created by Robert Velter . Another influence for

3528-521: Was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt , most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories, 1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking, 1898) and the posthumously published Huit Jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Country, 1912). The child of François Renard and Anna-Rose Colin, Renard

3591-520: Was an active supporter of pacifism and anticlericalism (apparent in La Bigote ). His Journal, 1887–1910 (published in 1925) is a masterpiece of introspection, irony, humor and nostalgia, and provides an important glimpse into the literary life. The English writer Somerset Maugham was influenced to publish his own well-known journals by the example of Renard. In the introduction to his own work A Writer's Notebook , Maugham wrote an apt summary of

3654-614: Was born in Châlons-du-Maine , Mayenne where his father was working on the construction of a railroad. Renard grew up in Chitry-les-Mines , ( Nièvre ). He had three older siblings, including Amélie (born 1858), who died at a young age. A second sister was also named Amélie (born 1859). A third child, Maurice, was born before Pierre-Jules in 1862. Renard's childhood was characterized as difficult and sad ( un grand silence roux or "a great ruddy silence"). Although he decided not to attend

3717-565: Was elected mayor ( maire ) of Chitry les mines (58) on 15 May 1904 as the socialist candidate and became a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1907, thanks to Octave Mirbeau . He died of arteriosclerosis in Paris. Some of Jules Renard's works take their inspiration from the countryside he loved in the Nièvre region. His character portraits are sharp, ironic and sometimes cruel (in his Histoires naturelles he humanizes animals and animalizes men) and he

3780-753: Was from the Maharajah of Gopal. The Maharajah of Gopal does not make an appearance in The Adventures of Tintin , but is one of the main characters in The Valley of the Cobras (1956), which is a part of another Franco-Belgian comics series created by Hergé, The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1935–1958). Hergé also introduced the Romani people , members of whose community had previously appeared in Destination New York (1951), another book from The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko . The idea of including them in

3843-476: Was only a paparazzo . A few days later, Castafiore's most valuable jewel, an emerald given to her by the fictional Maharajah of Gopal , goes missing. After initially questioning Irma, Nestor and Calculus, the detectives Thomson and Thompson suspect the Romani. Their suspicions are heightened when they find a pair of golden scissors belonging to Irma in Miarka's possession, though she claims to have found them. After

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3906-629: Was originally written in English". In the original French version, Calculus ignores Haddock's attempt to refer to the latest developments of colour television in the United States when presenting his prototype; this does not occur in the English edition. The book was considered by critics to be an antithesis of the previous Tintin ventures. Michael Farr, author of Tintin: The Complete Companion , stated that in The Castafiore Emerald , Hergé permits Haddock to remain at home in Marlinspike, an ideal that

3969-402: Was to tell a story where nothing happened. Without resorting to anything exotic (except the gipsies [ sic ]). I wanted simply to see if I could keep the reader in suspense until the end".  — Hergé in an interview with Numa Sadoul . Following the culmination of the previous story, Tintin in Tibet (1960), Hergé began planning his next adventure, seeking advice from

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