The memory of a ship remains among its wooden planks, from port to starboard, but its chronicle, on the other hand, in the experiences of sailors accustomed to the sea and oblivion. The history of the Grand-Dauphin, one of the first French merchant ships to circumnavigate the world, was known, from its departure from the port of Saint-Malo (northern France) at the beginning of the 18th century, to its stays in Cadiz, Chile, Peru, and, finally, China and Indonesia. However, the memory of the one hundred and forty men who inhabited this three hundred and fifty-ton ship monster had remained an anecdote lost in the fleeting abyss of time. Until now. Antiquarian and collector Jean-François Letenneur discovers the ship's logbook in the year 2000, archived since May 20, 1717. Letenneur conducted an exhaustive study to determine its historical interest and deliver it, this year, to the Maritime Museum of Saint-Malo, where it is currently being analyzed for public exhibition.

"Today you turn thirty-six, Manolo, and as you can see, I remembered the date." Thus begins the diary that cartoonist Joaquim Aubert Puigarnau, Kim (Barcelona, ​​1941), bought in 2007 at a secondhand book stall in Barcelona's Encants flea market. "The handwriting caught my eye, very beautiful, and the fact that the author had given it to her love, a certain Manolo," he recalls. The cartoonist was captivated: instead of recording all sorts of vicissitudes, the diary focuses on a single love story that spans some twenty years. An impossible relationship, really: when they met, she was 19 and he was 35, married, and with two children. Moreover, Manolo soon moved to the Canary Islands, but she remained steadfast in her unconditional love, sustained only by a handful of letters, the occasional reunion, and, above all, false hopes. A story that reads like a novel but is tragically true, which Kim reveals to the comic book. Miss Litgi's Diary (Norma).