Eleven Belgian authors took up the challenge of writing a novella in which characters from Hergé's work appear. In doing so, their stories had to be set along the ‘Royal Route’, which runs right through the centre of Brussels, from Laeken to the Palace of Justice.
Issue note:
This volume is published by Uitgeverij Moulinsart on the occasion of the 70th birthday of King Albert II, King of the Belgians and the 75th anniversary of the creation of Tintin, reporter.
Of this issue there is a headprint numbered from 1 to 200, in box with linen binding and a bookmark, in lithograph. A special series outside trade, numbered from I to L, is reserved for H.M. the King, the authors and the publishers.
Note content:
foreword by Cees Nooteboom, afterword by Erik Orsenna and description of the Royal Trail by Marie-Laure Roggemans of the King Baudouin Foundation
contains the stories :
- The Missing from the Royal Route. Jean-Claude Bologne
- Tintin in advertising. Koen Peeters
- Bobbie with the Jews. Alain Berenboom
- The mother in love. Kamiel Vanhole
- The royal door. Francis Dannemark
- The death of a hero. Jacqueline Harpman
- Urban planning for a four-year-old. Eric de Kuyper
- The thickets of Bianca. Jacques De Decker
- A helmet on the pavement. Xavier Hanotte
- Döner kebap. Geert Van Istendael
- The royal road. Régine Vandamme
173 pages - hardcover - Dutch - limited & numbered (+ box)