HERGÉ – Tintin and the Dupondts’ investigation

HERGÉ (1907.1983)

Letter signed.

One page in-4° on Studios Hergé letterhead.

Brussels. March 4, 1964

Delicious letter from Hergé featuring the Dupondts in the middle of a police investigation.

“Dear Miss, dear friends, How does a message written on December 30 receive a response only at the beginning of March of the following year? ... This seems like an enigma, on which an adventure story could be built... A new Tintin adventure , for example! But the Dupondts, whom I put in charge of the investigation, have already almost clarified the mystery. They saw that your letter had only been posted to Ernée on February 20. From there, it went through a correspondent of Mademoiselle de la Messuzière, in Kain (Belgium). Time to come from Kain to Brussels… and here we are on March 4th. No, really, the affair is not dark enough to serve as the basis for a whole “tintinesque” story. We will have to find something else; I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about it, but have patience, please! Our fine police officers also noted that your letter was in no way an anonymous letter ; the proof is that it contains more than thirty signatures. Among these, they counted several Rousseau, Moreau, Bouttier, Taburet… but also, two Demie, and they wonder, perplexed, if two Demie count as one or two? …. In any case, at the rate of 1,000 friendships per signatory, I am sending you, under this envelope, at least 30,000! I am also sending you all a card with my best wishes. Yours were ready to leave on time; Mine arrive to you very late, but they are no less sincere and cordial. Hergé »