Birth of Georges Remi
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<\/span>Georges Remi and his younger brother Paul in 1918. Collection Studio Herg\u00e9<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1920<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
The young boy begins his secondary school at Coll\u00e8ge Saint-Boniface, in Brussels. <\/strong>He’s deeply bored.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1921<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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He joins the school’s Scout troop<\/strong>, where he receives the totemic name of Renard curieux. His first drawings<\/strong> appeared in “Never Enough”, the school’s Scout magazine, then, from 1923, in “Le Boy-Scout belge”, the monthly magazine of the Belgian Scouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/museeherge.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1922-Georges_scout.png\")
<\/span>In August 1922, at the age of fifteen, Georges (right) left his country for the first time. Here in Samedan, Switzerland. \u00a9 St. Boniface-Parnassus Foundation<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1924<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
It‘s the name Herg\u00e9 – RG, <\/b>the initials of Georges Remi – that he now signs his illustrations<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1926<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Creation of Totor CP des Hannetons<\/em>,\u00a0<\/b>prefiguration of Tintin, in\u00a0The Belgian Boy Scout<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/museeherge.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Totor.png\" "\\"Totor\\"")
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In 1926, at the age of 19, Georges Remi volunteered for military service.
\nHe is a candidate for reserve second lieutenant<\/strong> in the First Regiment of Foot Chasseurs, based at the Place Dailly barracks in Schaerbeek. He always carried a small notebook in which he sketched his companions<\/strong>. He was demobilized after twelve months with the rank of reserve sergeant.<\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/museeherge.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1926-Sergent_Remi.png\")
<\/span>Sergeant Remi (left). \u00a9 Michel Lichtaert collection<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1930<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Creation of Quick and Flupke<\/strong><\/em>, kids from Brussels and actors of short complete stories in Le Petit Vingti\u00e8me<\/em>. Publication of the first Tintin adventure: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
1932<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Georges Remi married Germaine Kieckens, secretary to the director of Le\u00a0Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/museeherge.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image1.jpg\" "\\"image1\\"")
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1932: Germaine and Georges R\u00e9mi in the streets of Brussels. Herg\u00e9 Studios Collection.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1934<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Maison Casterman, based in Tournai (Belgium), becomes the publisher of The<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Adventures of Tintin<\/i><\/strong>. The meeting with a young Chinese student, Chang Chong-chen, marked a decisive turning point. Herg\u00e9 became convinced of the importance of a well-constructed plot and the need to document himself. He begins to take seriously what used to be a simple game…<\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/museeherge.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image3.jpg\" "\\"image3\\"")
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1934. Herg\u00e9, Germaine and Chang in Brussels. \u00a9 Jacques Langevin \/ SYGMA<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1935<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
For the French weekly, Coeurs Vaillants<\/i><\/strong>, Herg\u00e9 created a new series and new heroes: Jo, Zette and Jocko<\/i><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/museeherge.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image2.jpg\" "\\"image2\\"")
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Cover of issue 3 of C\u0153urs Vaillants - January 19th, 1936<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1939<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Following Herg\u00e9’s stance in favor of the Chinese people in\u00a0
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