Rodolphe Töpffer was a politician, writer and cartoonist born in 1799 and died in 1846.
Rodolphe Töpffer was a politician, writer and cartoonist born in 1799 and died in 1846.
Rodolphe Töpffer is considered the “inventor” of the comic strip. He began to create stories articulating text and images in 1827.
Four years later he published L’histoire de Monsieur Jabot. Then came Les amours de monsieur Vieux Bois, Histoire de monsieur Crépin, Docteur Festus, Monsieur Pencil, Histoire d’Albert, Histoire de monsieur Cryptogame and Monsieur Trictrac.
The café of Amélie, the mansion of Untouchables, the jazz club of the finale of La La Land, the Hôtel du Nord of the mythical replica of Arletty “Atmosphere”, the cinema of A bout de souffle, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the quays of the Seine of Midnight in Paris, the secret places of the Da Vinci Code, the grocery store of January in La Traversée de Paris , the Bridge of Inception and Peur sur la ville, the addresses of the spectacular scenes of Mission Impossible 6, but also series Call my agent, Gears, Le Bureau des légendes, Sense8, Sex and The City, Gossip Girl…
Etienne Daho’s Café de Flore, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hotel in Nas in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg’s Poinçonneur des Lilas metro station, Serge Reggiani and Marc Lavoine’s Mirabeau Bridge, Mc Solaar’s Lyon station…
The places evoked in the comics Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch, Blake and Mortimer, Michel Vaillant…
But also in the novels of Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leo Malet, Daniel Pennac, Marc Levy, Guillaume Musso… you’ll find all the must-see places of Parisian Pop Culture in this new guide.
