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Auguste Piccard: Did he know he inspired Professor Calculus?

mct16
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#1 · Posted: 7 Sep 2011 13:54

Aristide Filoselle asked in this thread:

(And by the way, if I am allowed an off topic question - Did Piccard know that he was the inspiration for Calculus - or was it only something HergÃ© spoke about after Piccard's death?)

Hard to tell. The nearest I can get to Herge confirming that Piccard was the model is in the interviews with Numa Sadoul from 1975, long after Piccard's death in 1962.

Mind you, 1962 was also about the time that Herge was working on "The Castafiore Emerald" in which Bianca mentions Calculus' balloon flights - getting him mixed up with Piccard.

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