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Seven books by Mathieu Montaroux to organize your preparation, pass on to children and explore the choices that make us move forward.
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Choose a reading according to your goal: moving forward with a guide, exchanging with the family or thinking through fiction. Imaginary narratives are presented separately from practical resources.
Practical guides
Four guides to organize your approach, develop skills and reflect on the needs of the home.
One step every week
An emergency preparedness plan
A step-by-step journey to lay the foundation for your family's preparation. Each week you take a new step and invite yourself to reinforce what you have already set up.
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Long-term planning
Monthly Survival Guide for Long-Term Planning
A guide to reflect on prolonged disturbances and the resources needed to cope with them, including evacuation, water or power interruptions and the organization of the home.
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Skills and adaptation
Survival skills and emergency preparedness
The principles of outdoors and survival are used here as a starting point to think about preparedness for unforeseen events. A reading on skills, resources and adaptability.
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Home preparation
A Guide to Surviving the Worst Disaster Scenarios
An approach to preparation that links material resources to how to react under pressure. The book deals with vigilance, stress, household reserves and vehicle preparation.
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Family reading
A front door to talk about safety and mutual assistance with children, taking the time to read together.
Youth · Read it together
10 stories to learn how to react and be ready for anything
Logan and Léna discover how to deal with unforeseen events with the help of their parents. Storms, fires and power outages become opportunities to talk about safety, calmness and self-help with family.
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Stories and reflections
Fictitious universes to explore decisions and resilience. These books are not operational instructions for a real emergency.
Dilemmas · Interactive reading
Post-apocalyptic survival scenarios
Fictive situations confront the reader with difficult choices about the resources, trust and cohesion of a group. To explore alone or several, to compare views and discuss the consequences of a decision.
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Fables · Reflection
Fables of an overturned world – 50 lessons of survival and resilience in a post-apocalyptic universe
Fifty illustrated fables stage animals in a world in ruins. Their adventures invite us to reflect on prudence, ingenuity, adaptation and resilience, through the codes of narrative and metaphor.
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Covers and titles of published editions. The information on the Amazon sheet refers to the proposed edition and format. Last reference check: November 1, 2026.