Paul Coupet

In Cartes sur table, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table, for the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Paul Coupet is the parallel of Major John Despard from the original story.

Like Despard, Coupet is also an explorer and expedition guide. In this adaptation, at the time of the events in the show, Coupet has been engaged to play an expedition for Massud Shaïtana. Sometime in the past, Coupet had been to guide to a botanist Robert Louvier and his wife, except that in this adaptation, the expedition was up the Limpopo River and not up the Amazon. Louvier also died in circumstances similar to his parallel from the novel Mr Luxmore.

Just like in the original, Coupet develops an interest in Elise Schlumberger, the Anne Meredith parallel. But he shifts his attention to Alice Avril after meeting her. In this sense, Alice can be considered the Rhoda Dawes parallel. At the end of the episode, Alice turns down an offer of marriage from Coupet but agrees to spend a week with him in a hotel.

The character of Paul Coupet is portrayed by Alban Lenoir.