History Literature / LesMessagersDuTemps

* KleptomaniacHero: This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade Hanged]] in the beginning of the first book. The Prince or the Princess of Time can search a house, pick up all the items he/she wants inside and then suddenly the owner sneaks on your back and says ''"So, have you found enough to make you happy?"'' But he will be very friendly about this and allow the hero to keep his findings.

* PunBasedCreature: MadScientist monk Mimol has stitched different animals together to create weird hybrid creatures... some that are based on French puns. So, you have a "cerf-veau" (stag-calf, sounds like "cerveau" which means "brain"), a rat-porc (rat-pig, sounds like "rapport" which means "report") and a rat-daim (rat-deer, sounds like "radin" which means "stingy".

* ShoutOut: In the third book ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' makes an appearance! He is not referred by his full name, but his clothing description is very accurate and even the Prince/Princess can tell he is the best gunslinger in the land just by looking at him.

* KleptomaniacHero: This is [[LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanged]] in the beginning of the first book. The Prince or the Princess of Time can search a house, pick up all the items he/she wants inside and then suddenly the owner sneaks on your back and says ''"So, have you found enough to make you happy?"'' But he will be very friendly about this and allow the hero to keep his findings.

* NonIndicativeName: The "Messengers of Time" from the title do not refer to the heroes but to the people the heroes must rescue.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of the first book is a serious offender. You never fight a giant black monster who catches you in its tongue while you battle naked with just a helmet and a sword as a dark cloaked figure watches. The monster is possibly based on the "Crocopotamus" monster who is confronted inside the Chimes of Death maze, with its tongue based on the Albino Chameleon.

* PintSizedPowerHouse: Furyos the Short has mediocre stats as a fighter, but if he can go in angry mode at the beginning of a fight, his stats ''double'' and he can become quite powerful in combat.

''Les Messagers du Temps'' (''The Messengers of Time'') is a French {{Gamebook}} series in four volumes. It is written by a "James Campbell" who seems to actually be Jean-François Ménard (famous for translating the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books in French); the first book came out in 1987. It was marketed as a translated work from English in order to sell better (considering that the popular gamebooks at the time were British works), but a quick glance at the copyright date inside tells otherwise (and lack of the "original" English title).

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Of course, there is the Princess of Time, but there's hardly any "Princess-ness" about her.

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* EvilAlbino: Albino chameleons are fought in Gouttard's castle. According to Furyos, they are running amock because they are upset about not being able to change color!

* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Prince or the Princess of Time will tell Joan of Ark to go fight the English, and the Parisians to take over the Bastille prison.

* NonStandardGameOver: There are several, mostly in the last two books. They generally involve you being too slow and your sibling succeeding in the mission before you or you being captured but being rescued in time by your sibling. In both case, you live, but lost the competition. In the third book, there's also the (in?)famous scene where you can marry the daughter or son of the chief of a Native American tribe.

* GracefulLoser: After being mortally wounded, [[TrueFinalBoss reverend Montrainer]] calmly accepts his defeat, saying that it is a proof that God didn't want the end of the world to happen. Compare and contrast with Peter Meduzz, whose last action in a similar situation was to trigger the self-destruction of his base.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Prince or the Princess of Time will tell Joan of Ark to go fight the English, and the Parisians to take over the Bastille prison.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Bastien Frontouillard and abbot Goulot de Peillac]] in the second book.

** In ''Objectif: Apocalypse'', [[BigBad Peter Meduzz]] has [[DrunkenMaster Hicboum the Mad]]. Reverend Montrainer may also qualify, but it's unclear wether he works for Meduzz or he is his equal in a BigBadDuumvirate.

* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Abbot Goulot de Paillac is secretly the head of the evil Blood Mask organization.]]

* UnwinnableByDesign: The third book has the [[spoiler:Artist]] skill compulsory to succeed.

'''''Les Messagers du Temps''''' ('''''The Messengers of Time''''') is a French ChooseYourOwnAdventure gamebook series in four volumes. It is written by a "James Campbell" who seems to actually be Jean-François Ménard (famous for translating the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books in French); the first book came out in 1987. It was marketed as a translated work from English in order to sell better (considering that the popular gamebooks at the time were British works), but a quick glance at the copyright date inside tells otherwise (and lack of the "original" English title).

!!''Les Messagers du Temps'' provide examples of the following tropes:

* VillainousBreakdown: Gouttard de Malgrâce is usually jovial when gloating over the heroes. When they beat and destroy his Chimes of Death, he personally comes to fight them with a dagger, enraged.

* BoundAndGagged: It may happen to you in the second book if you're captured while spying the meeting of the society of the Blood Mask and it happens to your sibling at the end of the fourth book.

'''''Les Messagers du Temps''''' ('''''The Messengers of Time''''') is a French Gamebook series in four volumes. It is written by some guy supposedly called James Campbell but who seems to actually be Jean-François Ménard (famous for translating the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books in French); the first book came out in 1987. It was marketed as a translated work from English in order to sell better (considering that the popular gamebooks at the time were British works).

** A straigher example in the fourth book: the protagonists stop at a dirty fastfood restaurant and if they order a hamburger to eat, the food will be ''so bad'' that they will lose hit points.

* ShoutOut: In the third book LuckyLuke makes an appearance! He is not referred by his full name, but his clothing description is very accurate and even the Prince/Princess can tell he is the best gunslinger in the land just by looking at him.

* DamselInDistress: Kind of subverted, since three of the four persons to rescue are men.

** Peter Meduzz designs a special crystal that can multiply water molecules.