Unpublished memoirs by Florence Arthaud to be published

Unpublished memoirs by the navigator Florence Arthaud, who had given up publishing them during her lifetime, are due to appear on February 10, announced the Arthaud publishing house, which her father headed. “Océane” had been written “on the threshold of the 1990s” according to the back cover, while the sailor had become immensely famous thanks to her record of the solo crossing of the North Atlantic and her victory in the Route du rhum in 1990. “We are finally publishing this new story thanks to the agreement of his daughter Marie and his brother Hubert who prefaces it”, explained in a press release the Editions Arthaud, formerly managed by Jacques Arthaud. Florence Arthaud wrote this book at the request of the Filipacchi Médias group, which in exchange became its sponsor. But it had never been released, the sailor refusing to be edited by a competitor of her father. The memoirs to be published describe, among other things, his rebellious youth and his feeling of suffocation in his family environment, but also the affection felt for his mother.