Hergé and Tintin in Congo "I was a colonialist like everyone else at the time"

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Hergé in 1972, reading "Tintin and the shark lake". STF / AFP

By: Pascal Paradou

The famous author of Tintin's Adventures, Hergé (1907-1983) was actually called Georges Rémi, taking his pseudonym from his initials.

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He began his career as a cartoonist in 1924, and joined the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle in 1929 with his plates of the famous character of Belgian adventurer reporter. Today, his stories around a world marked by colonization are reviewed from another angle, the opportunity to hear him evoke the writing of the controversial Tintin in Congo .

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