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''[[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 [[Harry Potter]] 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).
The plot is about The Prince and The Princess of Time, the twin children of Chronada, Queen of Time, who rules over the Kingdom of Time in the center of the Earth where people live forever, away from the human world.
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# ''Objectif: Apocalypse'' (Objective: Apocalypse)
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* [[Action Girl]]: The Princess of Time can get her touch of action as well as her brother, and doesn't enjoy sexist remarks from men who tell her that she'd better be washing laundry instead of carrying weapons (no, really).
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: 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.
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* [[Damsel in Distress]]: kind of subverted, since three of the four persons to rescue are men.
* [[Drunken Master]]: Hicboum the Mad, who is [[The Dragon]] to the [[Big Bad]] in the fourth book, is constantly drunk but this makes him even more of a fierce fighter, one of the most powerful enemies in the series.
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* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: the Prince and the Princess of Time are twins and are described as looking exactly alike. Despite this, the Princess often gets compliment about her beauty.
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: The "Messengers of Time" from the title do not refer to the heroes but to the people the heroes must rescue.
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