Fantômette

Fantômette is the heroin of a series of books written by Georges Chaulet.

Concept

Brilliant schoolgirl in the city (fictitious) of Framboisy, Francoise Dupont is old of a dozen years and carries out a double life because the night, it becomes Fantômette, retributive masked. She speaks a considerable number of languages, knows the labial reading, is an accomplished Sport ive, and is extremely intelligent. She devotes a good part of her energy to hiding her secret identity with Ficelle and Boulotte, her two better friends.

When Fantômette leaves on mission, it always carries its traditional costume i.e.: a bonnet with pompom, a black wolf, a yellow Justaucorps, Sticking black, of the Ballerina S and a wrap black doubled of red maintained by staples in the shape of F which hiding place a blade of penknife when one exerts a pressure above. This accessory with allowed Fantômette besides to be delivered many times of its bonds after being bound.

It never takes holidays, carries out a very active life but agrees to the occasion a few moments nonchalance. Fantômette does not cooperate directly with the book but police force the gangsters with the police station in several books.

If it does not have Super-capacity S, Fantômette is very intelligent. It reads much (what saves the life indirectly to him when an arrow is drawn for him top and comes to be card-indexed in the book of Victor Hugo which it carried against it), and devotes itself to the most various activities.

List novels

01. Exploits of Fantômette (1961)
02. Fantômette against the Owl (July 1962)
03. Fantômette against the giant (January 1963)
04. Fantômette with the carnival (September 1963)
05. Fantômette and the island of the witch (August 1964)
06. Fantômette against Fantômette (1964)
07. No holidays for Fantômette (1965)
08. Fantômette and television (1966)
09. Operation Fantômette (1966)
10. Seven Fantômettes (1967)
11. Fantômette and the Tooth of the Devil (1967)
12. Fantômette and its prince (1968)
13. Fantômette and the brigand (1968)
14. Fantômette and the marvellous lamp (1969)
15. Fantômette in the king (1970)
16. Fantômette and the treasure of the Pharaon (1970)
17. Fantômette and the haunted house (1971)
18. Fantômette with the Sea of sand (1971)
19. Fantômette against the Yellow Hand (1971)
20. Fantômette will come this evening (1972)

21. Fantômette in the trap (1972)
22. Fantômette and the secrecy of the desert (1973)

23. Fantômette and the Mask of Money (1973)
24. Fantômette in the corsairs (October 1973)
25. Fantômette against Charlemagne (March 1974)
26. Fantômette and the large animal (1974)
27. Fantômette and the palate under the sea (1974)
28. Fantômette against Diabola (1975)
29. Call Fantômette! (1975)
30. Olé, Fantômette! (1975)
31. Fantômette breaks the ice (1976)
32. Notebooks of Fantômette (1976)
33. It is somebody, Fantômette! (1977)
34. Fantômette in space (1977)
35. Fantômette does all to jump (1977)
36. Fantastic Fantômette (1978)
37. Fantômette and the 40 billion (1978)
38. The Almanac of Fantômette (1979)
39. Fantômette in full mystery (1979)
40. Fantômette and the mystery of the tower (August 1979)
41. Fantômette and the Dragon of gold (June 1980)
42. Fantômette against Satanix (April 1981)
43. Fantômette and the crown (January 1982)
44. Mission impossible for Fantômette (October 1982)
45. Fantômette in danger (October 1983)
46. Fantômette and the mysterious castle (1984)
47. Fantômette opens the eye (1984)
48. Fantômette flies away (1985)
49. It is you Fantômette! (1987)
50. The return of Fantômette (2006)

Derivative products

Televised series

1992 - 93 : Fantômette . The televised series are a free adaptation of the protagonists of the novels in new new adventures. The obsolete and awkward realization does not have the plume of literary work, but the characters and the general atmosphere respect the fundamental ones. Fantômette is seen nevertheless equipped with a child's scooter with reaction and a surpuissant computer, which do not correspond to the universe of Georges Chaulet and contribute to give an involuntary comic character on these televised series.

Animated series

1999 : Fantômette

This animated version of the adventures of Fantômette is located even more far from the original that the televised series. Environment and the universe even are basically different from literary work. The action is in an international metropolis instead of a French small town. The young protagonists see themselves equipped families even with parents whereas they are autonomous in the novels. Francoise is even in charge of a heavy significant family past (of the parents Egyptologists deceased), non-existent in the books. In the name of a politically correct speech on the bulimia, Boulotte, although round, does not have an obsessional bond with food, but it cultivates a passion for the animals. As for graphics, it is with thousand places of the universe of Georges Chaulet. Fantômette of the cartoon resembles more one super-heroin of Manga than to our retributive masked with the Frenchwoman. In 26 25 minutes episodes.

Cartoons

Fantômette (1982 - 1985)

External bond

nonofficial Site of Fantômette

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