Paul-Émile Victor, explorer (1907-1995)

Paul-Émile Victor spent a large part of his youth in the attic of his family home in Saint Claude devouring books on ethnology and adventure-stories, dreaming of exploring and travels in Polynesia. It so happened that « PEV » ended up devoting his life to the cold countries. This adventurer discovered Greenland in 1934. On becoming an ethnologist he would direct 31 missions stretching from the Great North to the Great South. In 1977 the explorer settled in Bora Bora where he spent the remaining part of his life pursuing the varied activities of ethnology, scoutism, ecology, illustration and the writing of his memoirs.