title: Le gang des gaffeurs
text: # Le gang des gaffeurs
  
  Le gang des gaffeurs, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the original Gaston Lagaffe series. It is composed of 46 strips previously published in Spirou. It was published in 1974 by Dupuis.
  
  ## Story
  
  ### Inventions
  
  * divan : highly comfortable divan, full of late readers' letters
  * giant shoe :shoe made for a shoes seller
  * a giant aquarium: a network of pipes in which water flows
  * scented aerosol: a revolutionary substance through which the light can not go
  * machine to play cup-and-ball: device badly adjusted, so that it can hit the user
  * gas generator: engine fed with fuel, but too much polluting
  * miniature plane: this plane perfectly works, but the radio control turns out to control a Russian satellite
  
  ## Background
  
  This is the last album before Franquin's breakdown. Next publications will become rarer.
  
  