Pepé Le Pew voice for the character closely resembles the one he used for "Professor Le Blanc", the harried violin instructor on "The Jack Benny Program". Pepé Le Pew's cartoons were dubbed in French; in the French version ("Pépé le putois"), Pepé speaks with a heavy Italian accent. His voice is a parody of Yves Montand. Chuck Jones first introduced the character (originally named Stinky) in the 1945 short "Odor-able Kitty" (see "Variations"), in which he was revealed to be a married American skunk named Henry who had been faking his French accent. For the remaining cartoons Jones directed, Pepé retained his accent,
Gabriele Pepe to Florence. On February 19, 1826, he duelled with the poet Alphonse de Lamartine, who had compared Italians to "human dust" in his poem "Le Dernier Chant du pélerinage d'Harold". He wounded the French poet in the right arm. In 1836, he returned to Naples where, although aged, he participated in the 1848 riots. Gabriele Pepe Gabriele Pepe (7 December 1779 – 26 July 1849) was an Italian soldier who fought in defence of the Neapolitan Republic in 1799. He was a cousin of Guglielmo and Florestano Pepe. Born in Civitacampomarano (now Molise), he entered the Neapolitan Army at an