Antonio Iturbe

Antoine matches the plane itself. On the ground, both his big body, which forces him to move awkwardly, even clumsily, and his head filled with daydreams, totally ill-equipped to handle the most mundane aspects of daily living, convert him into a confused, tottering penguin futilely flapping its wings and unable to reach the sea. But up in the sky, he’s a totally different person.

He becomes weightless.

He’s fulfilled every child’s dream: to make toys real and reality a game

his thoughts soar

Shortly after he had met her, he had to report for his obligatory military service and enlisted in the air force to make his long-held dream of flying a reality.

, a love that kept growing at a distance.

He would have loved to be the Merovingian King Childebert, who built an entire rose garden for his queen in the centre of Paris. Louise de Vilmorin deserved nothing less

He was both the playwright who wrote the scripts and the over-the-top actor who performed them.

But when he performs his most outlandish spins, he’s performing for only one person, the girl who never leaves his thoughts.

It’s true that his family belonged to the old aristocracy of Lyons and that he had spent his childhood in a small castle with a thousand doors.

Come back tomorrow and explain that to me better. I love poetry.”

Her smile was full of promise and their love affair began from there.