Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

He starred in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island, occupied by the French in 1801.

It is an eponym of a possibly fictional French soldier Nicolas Chauvin who was credited with many superhuman feats in the Napoleonic wars.

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

* probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d ' Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on which the fictional D ' Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based ( d. 1673 )

Moore cites writers such as Marilyn French and Robert Graves, who argue ( as the fictional Gull does ) that women held both political and religious power prior to the rise of patriarchal religions such as Christianity.

The fictional " French Civil Liberties Union ", who had instigated the tribunal, then attempted to sue in civil court.

* Adieu is a novella by Honoré de Balzac in which can be found a short description of the French retreat from Russia, particularly the battle of Berezina, where the fictional couple of the story are tragically separated.

Clouseau's immense ego, eccentricity, embellished French accent and mustache were derived from Hercule Poirot, the famous fictional Belgian detective that featured in the novels of Agatha Christie.

* Belleville ( fictional city ), a fictional city in the French animated movie The Triplets of Belleville

A veteran of the French and Indian War as the " hero " of the fictional " Fort Wilderness " and widowed father of seven children, Benjamin does what he can to avoid fighting in the Revolutionary War knowing the implications surrounding it.

The fictional unconquered village from the French comic book Asterix is located here, on an Armorican peninsula ( modern Brittany ).

* The French movies La Reine Margot ( 1954 ) and La Reine Margot ( 1994 ), both based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same title, are fictional depictions of the lives of Henry III's family, his sister Margot, and her Protestant husband Henry around the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

A fictional biography of Crates was written by French author Marcel Schwob in his 1896 work Vies imaginaires.

In the film, the fictional character Benjamin Martin ( Mel Gibson ) describes violence he committed in the French and Indian War.

Formal innovation characterised Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 ) in which the theories of the neurobiologist Henri Laborit about animal behaviour are juxtaposed with three interwoven fictional stories ; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify.

* Snowy ( character ) ( Milou in French ), fictional character of Les Aventures de Tintin comic strip series

More recently, Pamela Sacred perpetuated the genre through La Voie de l ' ange, a continuation of The Diary of Anne Frank written in French by a fictional character from her Venetian Cell hypertext saga.

While Donovan's Reef is set on the fictional island of Haleakaloha, which has a French governor, the only Polynesian language exhibited in the film is Hawaiian -- " Haleakaloha " can be translated as " Home of Laughter and Love " ( hale

The novel focuses on the financial world of the Second French Empire as embodied in the Paris Bourse and exemplified by the fictional character of Aristide Saccard.

In fictional literature, Godfrey was the hero of numerous French chansons de geste dealing with the crusade, the " Crusade cycle ".

Melange from French mélange (“ set of diverse elements ”), ( or ) – also called the " spice " – is the name of the fictional drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and derivative works.

In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from Yverdon, Switzerland.

The programme is set in a fictional village called Ros Na Rún, located outside Galway, and near Spiddal, and centres around the domestic and professional lives of its residents.

The nearest village is the fictional MacDuich.

* Stock, a fictional village in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Archers is set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in the English Midlands.

This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach ( by its description, reminiscent of Oban but on the north east shore of Loch Crinan ), the real village of Lochgair, and in Glasgow where Prentice McHoan lives.

The exteriors of the buildings of the fictional Brookfield School were filmed at Repton School, an independent school ( at the time of filming, for boys only ), located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, in the Midlands area of England, whilst the interiors, school courtyards and annexes, including the supposedly exterior shots of the Austrian Tyrol Mountains, were filmed at Denham Film Studios, near the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire.

* Toki Wartooth, rhythm guitar player for the fictional death metal band Dethklok was raised in a nearby abandoned village.

Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain.

* Athos ( fictional character ), one of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ) by Alexandre Dumas ( père ), indirectly named from the village

Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi played all the parts, and the theatricality of the undertaking was again emphasised by the studio set designs for a fictional English village.

The fictional small town of El Pano, where the novel begins, is based on the existing village of Del Rio, Tennessee.

Lansquenet-sous-Tannes is a fictional village in Joanne Harris ' novel Chocolat.

Chilmark and Menemsha, the fishing village located on the northern end of the town are also the locations of the fictional town of " Amity Island " in the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws ( film ).

* Warwickshire – A fictional English village which exists for several weekends a year at the location of the Sterling Renaissance Festival.

John Cheever selected the village as the location for the fictional Falconer State Prison in his novel Falconer.

On the episode aired on April 13 it was said that the village of Hewlett Harbor was the setting of the fictional NBC TV series called Five Towns.

The CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless takes place in a fictional setting also called Genoa City, Wisconsin, which is otherwise unlike and unrelated to the actual village.

* Bree ( Middle-earth ), a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

Thereafter, he lives as a country squire in the fictional village of Smallbridge, Kent, largely satisfied but longing for the sea.