7/ To create the character of Chang, Hergé was inspired by one of his friends.
It is Chang Tchong-jen, a friend of Hergé of the Academy of the Beaux-Arts. Who could boast that he was in the famous cartoons.
8/ Laszlo Carreidas, in Flight 747 for Sydney is inspired by a celebrity entrepreneur.
The character, Marcel Dassault, represented as sly, deceitful, contemptuous and miserable. Why did you give him those “qualities”? Hergé might have made a parallel with the founder of the Dassault group, for he himself laughed very little. In addition, they often wore a scarf, goggles and a hat.
9/ The celarsof the chateau Moulinsart was a copy of those in the chateau Chillon.
Hergé was inspired by the cellars in the chateau Chillon, in Switzerland to draw not only those of the chateau Moulinsart but also to lend its features to the castle Kropow where it was kept the treasure of the King Ottokarr XII in King Ottokar’s sceptre, released in 1939.
