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* 1962

He militates for the protection of the man and its environment, organizing many activities.

* 1 mars 1965

He marries Colette Faure, a stewardess who lives in a barge close to his.

* 1968

He becomes General deputy of the Foundation for the Safeguard of the Nature, created by Louis Armand.

* 1973

PEV explores the Adélie land. He obtains a prize of the French Academy for the.........
, the "Grand Croix of the......" and the title of Satrap at the College of Pataphysique.

* 1974

He creates the PEV group for the defense of Tthe man and its environment with Alain Bombard, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Maurice Herzog, Haroun Tazieff, Louis Leprince-Ringuet, professor Jacques Debat, Jacqueline Auriol...

* 1976

At 69 years, he takes his retirement and transmits the direction of the EPF to his companions and becomes advisory member of the TAAF, southern and antarctic French Lands.

* 1977

At 70 years old, he carries out his second childhood dream with his wife Colette, they settle down on their virgin Motu in French Polynesia, Motu Tane ("The island of the man" in Tahitian language) where he write his memories, articles...
He also paints alot too.

* 1987

To celebrate his 80 years, he goes back in February to Adélie land and in April-May to the North Pole with the polar expedition in the ULM of Hubert de Chevigny and Nicolas Hulot.

* 1988

He is struck by a cerebral vascular accident on his island who paralyses him in half, but he will rrecover.

* 1989

Creation and inauguration of the polar Museum Paul Emile Victor in Prémanon, close to Russet-red at 30 km of Saint-Claude.

* 1990

The assessment of the E.P.F. is as follows:
- 65 explorations,
- more than 3.000 participants (scientific and technicians),
- more than 450.000 XXXX
- more than 10.000 hours of flight (plane and helicopter)
- 65 freightings of ships, to transport more than 50.000 tons of material
- approximately 500 important scientific monographs, and a thousand scientific articles.

* 1991

The Wasa cyclone devastates the motu (island in tahitian).

* 7 mars 1995

He dies theits island of Bora-Bora at the age of 88. He is xxx at sea according to his last will with the tributes of the National Navy aboard the frigate Dumont d'Urville.

* 1998

The Polar museum PEV created in 1989 becomes the polar center PEV.

* 2005

For the tenth birthday of the death of Paul-Emile Victor, the publishes one of theautobiographical works of this great figure of polar exploration. It will include writings unaivalable today on its youth, La Mansarde: from the Jura to Greenland (1907-1934), its stay in Greenland, Igloo: In Greenland (1934-1937), and his missions as director of French polar explorations, Explorations: from Greenland to Bora-Bora (1937-1995). The edition of these three titles in the collection "the genius of the places", directed by Julie Boch, is established under the authority of Victor Daphne the daughter of the author, lawyer specialized in the right of the intellectual and artistic property. She is, with her brother Jean-Christophe, representing it of XXXX.

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