Abstract: For Olivier Salon, even though he didn’t know him personally, it’s a series of coincidences and encounters that transformed Cendrars into a fellow traveller who brought him to the ends of the earth. From child games with Thomas Gilou, son of Miriam Cendrars and grand-son of Cendrars, to Oulipo, this elective relationship is marked by an admiration for Erik Satie, travels to Amazonia and to the Plan de l’Aiguille as well as a complicity for exploring language.
