Jacques Paganel
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Jacques Paganel | |
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Voyages Extraordinaires character | |
Jacques Paganel by Édouard Riou (1868) | |
Created by | Jules Verne |
In-universe information | |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Professor |
Nationality | French |
Jacques Eliacin François Marie Paganel is one of the main characters in Jules Verne's 1867-68 novel In Search of the Castaways (original title Les Enfants du capitaine Grant). Paganel represents the absent-minded professor stock character.[citation needed]
Verne gives a memorable characterisation of his hero:
He was a tall, thin, withered-looking man, about forty years of age, and resembled a long nail with a big head. His head was large and massive, his forehead high, his chin very marked. His eyes were concealed by enormous round spectacles, and in his look was that peculiar indecision which is common to nyctalopes, or people who have a peculiar construction of the eye, which makes the sight imperfect in the day and better at night. It was evident from his physiognomy that he was a lively, intelligent man; he had not the crabbed expression of those grave individuals who never laugh on principle, and cover their emptiness with a mask of seriousness. He looked far from that. His careless, good-humored air, and easy, unceremonious manners, showed plainly that he knew how to take men and things on their bright side. But though he had not yet opened his mouth, he gave one the impression of being a great talker, and moreover, one of those absent folks who neither see though they are looking, nor hear though they are listening. He wore a traveling cap, and strong, low, yellow boots with leather gaiters. His pantaloons and jacket were of brown velvet, and their innumerable pockets were stuffed with note-books, memorandum-books, account-books, pocket-books, and a thousand other things equally cumbersome and useless, not to mention a telescope in addition, which he carried in a shoulder-belt.
In the novel, Paganel is the "Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies"[1]. After many years of being a cabinet professor, he decides to take a voyage to India, but by mistake boards the protagonists' yacht Duncan (which is going to Patagonia), the first of Paganel's absent-minded actions.
A further mistake was to learn the Portuguese language accidentally, rather than Spanish. Paganel studied The Lusiads of Camoens over six weeks, believing the poem to be written in Spanish.[1]
Nevertheless, Paganel proves to be an important member of the search party. His interpretation of the documents is vital in the advancement of the novel; he also provides numerous geographical references and is a constant source of humor.
In film and television
Actors who have played Paganel on the screen include:
- Nikolai Cherkasov, in The Children of Captain Grant (1936)
- Maurice Chevalier, in In Search of the Castaways (1962)
- Lembit Ulfsak, in In Search of Captain Grant (1985)
References
- ^ Chapter XV, "Jacques Paganel's Spanish".
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- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
- From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866)
- In Search of the Castaways (1867–68)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869–70)
- Around the Moon (1870)
- A Floating City (1871)
- The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872)
- The Fur Country (1873)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
- The Mysterious Island (1874–75)
- The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
- Michael Strogoff (1876)
- Off on a Comet (1877)
- The Child of the Cavern (1877)
- Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
- The Begum's Fortune (1879)
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)
- The Steam House (1880)
- Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
- Godfrey Morgan (1882)
- The Green Ray (1882)
- Kéraban the Inflexible (1883)
- The Vanished Diamond (1884)
- The Archipelago on Fire (1884)
- Mathias Sandorf (1885)
- The Lottery Ticket (1886)
- Robur the Conqueror (1886)
- North Against South (1887)
- The Flight to France (1887)
- Two Years' Vacation (1888)
- Family Without a Name (1889)
- The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)
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- The Carpathian Castle (1892)
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- Foundling Mick (1893)
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- Facing the Flag (1896)
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- An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
- The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
- The Will of an Eccentric (1899)
- The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
- The Village in the Treetops (1901)
- The Sea Serpent (1901)
- The Kip Brothers (1902)
- Travel Scholarships (1903)
- A Drama in Livonia (1904)
- Master of the World (1904)
- Invasion of the Sea (1905)
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