Le Matin des magiciens

This work, a narrative “sometimes legendary and sometimes accurate,” devoted to “fields of knowledge scarcely explored […], at the frontiers of science and tradition,” emerged from the meeting between the journalist and writer Louis Pauwels and the chemical engineer Jacques Bergier. Five years of research, drawing on extensive documentation, were needed to conceive and shape the book, an editorial phenomenon that sold a million copies and revived interest in “fantastic realism.” Its author became so closely identified with the book that Jacques Bergier appeared eight years later, drawn by Hergé, in Vol 714 pour Sydney, in which Tintin encounters traces of a very ancient civilization of extraterrestrial origin. He is one of the few characters in the Tintin albums to take on so biographical a form.

A radiant, luminous binding by Louise Bescond.