From 1948 to his death in 1981, Malcolm de Chazal gave to the Mauritius’ press countless chronicles which are collected here, for the first time, in a wide selection. Chazal gets carried away sometimes, but we willingly follow him as he often finds blazing images and irresistible formulas of humour. In their oral spontaneity, the articles of Chazal provide an essential complement to his work, an extraordinary poetic construction that turns an island so far away into the centre of the universe and the origin of civilization.