Gustave Tison will dedicate his second book, In the footsteps of the Archangel

Originally from Coglais, Gustave Tison published his second book in December by Éditions du Panthéon, in Paris, under the title In the footsteps of the Archangel.

He succeeds Damn plane, small night flights were better (2018), where Gustave Tison paid tribute to his son Gildas, who died in 2015 during the crash of a fighter plane on an air base in Spain.

In the Footsteps of the Archangel“it’s a bit of the story of Gildas’ passion for aviation, whose hero was Jean Mermoz, the pioneering pilot of Aéropostale, nicknamed the Archangel by his comrades (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Henri Guillaumet, Marcel Reine, his mechanic Collenot, etc.)” explains Gustave Tison.

Mermoz owed this nickname “to his athletic build and his charisma”.

Gustave Tison constructed his story in three parts.

The first is called “ The Tropic of Capricornwhere, in Reunion, Gildas obtained his microlight pilot’s license at the age of 16. He then became a fighter pilot on a Mirage 2000-5 at the age of 20 in Dijon-Longvic, where Caroline Aigle, the very first female French fighter pilot on a Mirage 2000-5, also flew.

The legendary airmail

Then comes “ The Tropic of Cancerwhere over the vastness of the desert of Mauritania and West Africa” a small Victor Xray plane “ventures into improbable but magical and luminous spaces”.

Finally Gustave Tison speaks of “ the legendary Aéropostale line, taken by the same family plane, the PA28 Cherokee F-BVVX (Victor Xray), to return to Dinard from Nouakchott, with Gildas and his father on board, following in the footsteps of Mermoz.

The work is illustrated with photos, drawings, poems, “to stretch towards two moving fictions, in memory of Gildas In the footsteps of the Archangel was obviously written by several hands: mine biophysical, and the others of spiritual inspiration” announces Gustave Tison.

Next Saturday, January 18 from 10 a.m. in the book area of ​​the Super U store in Maen Roch-Saint Brice en Coglès, signing session.

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