House of Haunts

timo ronkainen timoro at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 25 10:44:34 CEST 2002


>From: "Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr." <sigvald4 at yahoo.no>
>I like to see this "duke" as a parallell to "emperor"
>Smith in a Lucky Luke story. "Emperor" Smith was a
>strange character behaving like he was Napoleon.


There was a real guy, "Emperor Norton" who proclaimed himself the Emperor of 
the United States in 1859. Check:
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html
Morris and Goscinny used his as a model for Smith.

Timo



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