Candy floss, waffles and crepes, Montélimar nougat and bum-per cars: these are just some of the things we associate with Paris’s famous Foire du Trône and which have found their way into Tardi’s fifth page for Casse-Pipe à la Nation, published in (A Suivre) no 217 in 1996.Casse-Pipe à la Nation is Tardi’s fourth and penultimate adap-tation of a Nestor Burma story. Penned by Léo Malet, it was published in 1957 by Laffont in their “Les Nouveaux Mystères de Paris” series. Malet chose once again to set his story in the heart of Paris, and here we see his detective wandering around the 12th arrondissement.Talking to Numa Sadoul about this particular adaptation, Tardi remarked that “The character’s name struck me as a bit ‘nerdy’ and at the same time perfect for a popular series. Malet left me to get on with it. He never intervened in my adaptations. Comics weren’t his thing. (...) Once I’ve got rid of that whiff of Malet xeno-phobia – racism, even – there’s no problem and I can just enjoy moseying about, which is something I really love doing. That’s the only reason for adapting his novels. I choose the book according to the arrondissement where I fancy having a wander” (in Entretiens avec Numa Sadoul, Éditions Niffle-Cohen, 2000).