Marlinspike Hall
Fictional location in The Adventures of Tintin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the fictional home of Captain Archibald Haddock. For the Hergé Foundation's commercial and copyright wing, formerly Moulinsart, see TintinImaginatio.
Marlinspike Hall (French: Le château de Moulinsart [mu.lɛ̃.saʁ]) is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.[1]
The original French name of the hall, Moulinsart, is derived from Sart-Moulin, a village near Braine-l'Alleud in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. In an allusion to the Haddock family's maritime history, the hall's English name refers to the marlinspike, a tool used in seamanship to splice ropes. The Belgian corporation managing Hergé's work (principally Tintin) is also called Moulinsart S.A., now TintinImaginatio.