Vargèse is a small town in the French Haute-Savoie[1] "with a lake and a casino"[2]).
Name[]
The town's name is purely fictional, from Herge's imagination. When the name first appeared in Coeurs vaillants of April 1939, it was spelled Vargèze.
Appearances[]
- The Legrand family (Jo, Zette and Jocko and their parents) owned a chalet here.
- The Maharajah of Gopal and his entourage holidayed here at the Hôtel des Neiges.
- In Tintin in Tibet, Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus holidayed here at the Hotel des Sommets.
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Valley of the Cobras, page 3
- ↑ so-described in Tintin magazine, 1958, in the serial version of Tintin in Tibet
Acknowledgement[]
This page is based on the article Vargèse (in French) on French Wikipédia.