Jean Cave (French novelist - CFHT Visitor) Title:"My dear friend Martian" or Passion, illusion, science, the secrets of Percival Lowell Abstract: You think you know everything about the man who saw hundreds of canals on Mars, who told the world there was on the red planet a civilization much more advanced than ours, who spent more than 20 years and all his fortune to prove he was right, and who is responsible for all those martians tales. Then you go to the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff (Arizona) just to check out what belongs to the History, what belongs to the legend. One day, in the basement of the old building erected on Mars Hill, you discover a document which open a new world; the reality is far more complex than you thought. When imagination and science mix in he same brain you can expect a new big bang. Where does begin fiction? When does reality come to an end? Fasten your seat belts. The journey to Mars is not that long.