The companions of my youth in French speaking Switzerland. As from about 1954, I waited ‒ a million years before Harry Plotter started this ‒ to wait from the earliest morning in front of the bookshop. I have all albums, all in original French. Today I had the sudden idea to create a new Desktop-Background. The castle is Château Cherverny in France from with I took, like Hergé, the two extreme Wings away and made the whole thing looking old. The figures are from my Pixi Collection of Tintin figures. And the Wilbers are anyway free. The full size is 2560 x 1600 pixel.

Arran
You forgot Nestor et la Castafiore

Nestor oui, mais Madame, peut-être sur le toit ...

Mais en tout cas, j'en n'ai pas les figurines.

Tant que je ne l'entends pas chanter,ca va

Translation: in the Tintin adventures,Nestor was the butler and the Castafiore was an opera singer who broke crystal when she (horribly)sang.so I said "as long as I don't hear her sing,I'm ok"

And she was madly in love with Haddock, but addressed him every time with another name: Bottock, Kappock, Shipdock, get the idea?

I try to buy the two on Ebay and add them afterwards.

But you don't want the Emir Ben Kalish Ezab and his son Abdulla as well, or Onassis (sorry Rastapopoulos), Oliveiro da Figueiro the Merchant, that bore Séraphin Lampion and Tchang?