Bruxelles, Éditions Brepols (Bruxelles), 138 pages.

This children’s book would have had its place in the Bibliothèque Verte. The story takes place in the Ile de France, which will become Mauritius. We find there the famous corsair, a young gabier, a young philosopher, etc., and a certain Mr. Piston, incarnation of one of Françoise’s ancestors.

Attached to her Breton and maritime roots, the author would have loved this song by Michel Tonnerre in this very beautiful interpretation by Thalie (who knows Françoise and appreciates her). Thank you to this one for allowing me to insert it here, and to Michel’s heirs. (Vincent)

Paris, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, coll. Nouvelle bibliothèque de Suzette, 123 pages.

This little novel for young people is the fruit of a collaboration with two literary and scientific celebrities of the time: the writer Jean-Charles (La Foire aux cancres, 12 million copies sold) and the scientist Jacques Bergier, an SF author in his spare time.

The result is an honest adventure book, educational in its scientific postulates, where, unusually for Françoise, female characters are almost non-existent, apart from the presence of a 10-year-old girl.

The USSR found the book meritorious enough (a triumph of disinterested people working for the good of humanity and scientific materialism) for the State Educational Publishing House to translate it into 61.