#Iconic_Audencians: Stéphane Dugast (SciencesCom 98), adventure junkie

After graduating from SciencesCom in 1998, Stéphane Dugast quickly embarked on the adventure of the open sea by becoming a reporter for Cols Bleus, the magazine of the French Navy. Although he is a reporter, director, author and lecturer, we could also describe him as a storytelling explorer.

Stéphane travels the world bringing home tales of adventure where, in the background, we catch a glimpse the exploits of explorers from Pytheas to Paul-Émile Victor, via Magellan and Jules Verne, who hardly ever left France but whose accounts of Extraordinary Voyages gave rise to so many callings, including Stéphane’s…

In a nod to Arthur Rimbaud, one of the many heroes of his youth, we could describe Stéphane Dugast as a ``man with soles of wind``. When we ask him to go back to the sources of this appetite for the unknown, exoticism and the ends of the world, he takes us back to Nantes, between the river Loire and the Sillon de Bretagne, where the young Stéphane first felt the call of distant horizons.

 

For the third year in a row, we are delighted and proud to showcase 12 new profiles of Audencians from around the globe. The alumni that you will discover have very generously given up their time for an interview for which we are immensely grateful.