Count de Champignac

Pacôme Hégésippe Adélard Ladislas, count de Champignac is a character of fiction of the series of cartoon Spirou and Fantasio which was created by André Franquin.

The Count

It is about an original, old character and inventive “insane”. Raftered scientist, it controls a number impressing of sciences like chemistry, biology, physics…

He lives with the castle of and with Champignac, relay of a certain number of adventures of Spirou and Fantasio, as Moulinsart is for Tintin and Haddock.

He cultivates an insane love for all types of Champignon S with carpophore, which he finds in the park of the castle that he lives and in the area which draws its name from the particular frequency of these cryptogams, mainly of the basidiomycetes. Its ceaseless research on these mushrooms enables him to carry out revolutionary scientific discoveries, but which can prove to be dangerous if they fall between bad hands. One of the first products which he thus manages to produce, baptized X1 , gives a superhuman force and a speed to that which receives an injection from it (Fantasio will be, in spite of him, the first guinea-pig used to test the X1 ). X4, as for him, stimulates the capacities mémorielles and more generally cerebral. The extraordinary applications being able to be made starting from these discoveries result most of the time in to make run a great danger to the count de Champignac, Spirou, and Fantasio, because of the malevolent individuals who try to adapt the lucky finds of the Count. The Count himself appears potentially dangerous when it makes an error in the Fear at the end of the wire which makes it sink in the furious madness.

But it is not satisfied to be a fabulous biochemist, it is also an engineer except par: in the Den of the murene , it makes an underwater vehicle making it possible to go to more than two hundred meters under water, which at the time was a true exploit. It also manufactures many small gadgets which prove often essential to Spirou and Fantasio to come to end from their adventures.

Another of its innumerable lucky finds, and not of least: an egg of intact dinosaur preserved in the arctic cold that he manages to heat and to make hatch!

Last life of the Count de Champignac

It seems that the Count was always a genius (in Virus , the chief of the polar station learns in Spirou and Fantasio that they built together their first computer at the nursery school). It also seems that when he was young, it made research at the University, where it met Zorglub and Miss To stroll, two extremely gifted pupils towards which he had the deepest respect. It would have had a idylle with Miss To stroll, but there is few precise details on this episode of his life.

However, their visions of science diverged deeply. The first sought for the capacity, the second to satisfy its oversize selfishness. This is why the life will lead them to be adversaries. Then, one learns that the Count was married in Z like Zorglub , with a woman who seemed to claim inventions to him to satisfy least her whims, but one is unaware of if they are divorced or if she died.

Lastly, one also knows that he collaborated in WHO, according to Fantasio in Of beans everywhere .

Evolution of the character

In the series Spirou and Fantasio , the Count de Champignac, relatively posed with their first meeting, becomes increasingly energetic, to end up putting itself in insane angers vis-a-vis Zorglub, in the albums which are devoted to this character. However it will not hold of it rigor to him and after its repentance, they will become again friendly. Accompanying more and more Spirou and Fantasio in their adventures, one ends up having evil to believe that it is a " septuagénaire rhumatisant" , as he claimed it in There is a wizard with Champignac . He is in any case very sportsman, one on several times the occasion to realize it.

In the Clock and watch maker of the comet and the Alarm clock of Z , Spirou and Fantasio meet the nephew of the Count, Aurélien de Champignac, come from the future. This one proves to be the worthy heir to its uncle, very energetic for his age although it is less sure of him than Pacôme de Champignac.

Starting from the Paris-under-Seine of Morvan and Munuera, he learns in Spirou and Fantasio that he takes his retirement of the inventions abracadabrantes. The character will only devote himself from now on to create inventions with strictly humane aims. The character thus changes role, even if it had already taken some steps in this direction, in particular in Gare with the stereotype! , a short adventure carried out by Volume and Janry.

The family of the of Champignac …

The family of the count seems to be only made up of geniuses…

Indeed its Aurélien nephew invented the voyage in time and other rather spectacular inventions (in the Clock and watch maker of the comet and the Alarm clock of Z ).

The grandfather of the count, As of Champignac invented photography to him (in the Tomb of Champignac )!

Inventions and discoveries of the Count

• The X1 , product which gives a superhuman force ( There is a wizard with Champignac ).

• The X2 , potion which can make age 70 years in one hour ( There is a wizard with Champignac ).

• Luminous mushrooms intended to light the castle ( There is a wizard with Champignac ).

• Pills which make change the skin color ( Robbers of Marsupilami ).

• The métomol (or métamol ), a pink gas which dissolves metals and all the weapons using this gas like machine-guns or bombs, however in for the man ( the Dictator and the Mushroom ).

• The X4 (become then X3 at Volume and Janry), product which multiplies by ten the intelligence ( the Den of the murene ).

• A mini submarine and a diving-suit functioning with a new gas mixture ( the Den of the murene ).

• A ultra-powerful soporific gas ( the Pirates of silence even if one foresees already this invention in There is a wizard with Champignac ).

• Mushrooms which make insensitive cold ( the traveller of Mesozoic the ).

• A anti-Z ( Z like Zorglub ) then a anti-Z permanent ( shade of Z ), being used both to make insensitive with the zorglonde.

• A mould which can destroy any human creation with kilometers with the round ( Z like Zorglub ).

• The dezorglhommisator which is used to look after the people reached by the zorglonde ( shade of Z ).

• A copy of the zorglonde adapted in a false plaster ( shade of Z ).

• A camera in three dimensions. It is the Count who improves and removes the harmful effects of the invention of Mr. Flashback ( the Small sizes , published in Spirou and the man-bubbles ).

• Mushroom-fire of artifice (in clandestine Christmas , published in the Maker of gold ).

• Noemy, a car ecologist, conceived with the assistance of Itoh Kata ( Of glucose for Noémie ).

• A probe being used to follow the migration of the birds (in Tora Torapa , however the invention already exists, in another form, in Z like Zorglub ).

• A translator French-ksorien when the extraterrestrial ones unload in Champignac ( cider for the stars ).

• The Antivirax Panoramex , a microscopic mushroom hunter of virus ( Virus ).

• The X4 (a) , a manure miracle, the only invention of the Count who will never fontionnera really (in incredible the burp , published in the youth of Spirou ).

• A very nutritive champigon being able to push anywhere (in Station with the stereotype published in the youth of Spirou ).

• A ray which makes black the touched person ( the black ray ).

• A machine intended to transform water freezes some ( the Paris-under-Seine ).

• The nebulozitor which, on the contrary, transforms water into vapor and makes it possible to move the thus-formed clouds ( the Paris-under-Seine ).

• A substitu with mini-dosed of energy of Zorglub, containing a mushroom: Boletus Gahwa ( Marshes of time ).

• A pulp of fistuline which creates a new skin for the badly burned persons. One gets rid of old while moulting a little like the snakes ( the Tomb of Champignac ).

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