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Professor Haddock

A scholar or scientist appearing in later books.

minor

First appearance: Madame Clarence’s Drawing Room

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A verbose and insupportable professor who dominates the conversation with his controversial views on love and morality.

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In Madame Clarence’s Drawing Room: A verbose and insupportable professor who dominates the conversation with his controversial views on love and morality. Later, in III: Hippolyte Cérès: Offers cynical and provocative…

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Madame Clarence’s Drawing Room
A verbose and insupportable professor who dominates the conversation with his controversial views on love and morality.
III: Hippolyte Cérès
Offers cynical and provocative remarks on love and female modesty.
VI: The Sofa of the Favourite
Professor Haddock is mentioned for his scientific analysis of the probability of Eveline finding a lover equivalent to Visire.
IX: The Final Consequences
Cited for a learned article attributing provincial women's virtue to low shoe heels.
§ 3
Mentioned as 'the famous Professor Tigre' who perishes in the explosion of the egg-shaped bomb.

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