In Nantes and Angers, a bookseller-pèlerin energies Siloë

With his large shoulders and his decided air, Thibaud Dubois has a solid look of those who have chosen a trajectory. “Solid in his body, solid in his soul,” confirms Anthony Grouard, one of his friends. And endowed with a certain taste for meeting challenges, Thibaud shares his time between Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), where he is an employee director of the Siloë bookstore since 2021, and Angers (Maine-et-Loire), where he opened In 2023 another brand of the same name. “I accomplish this work with the dioceses of these cities, shareholders of the two bookstores. We make books of books in their premises, as well as in several parishes, as in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) or Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) ”, specifies Thibaud.

Petits of the printer and publisher Joseph Floc’h, founder of the handling printing, in Mayenne, man knew the world of lead letters and the smell of ink from his childhood. Commercial of Salvator editions with booksellers for a decade, he seized the opportunity, at 49, to take the bar of Siloë, an old Nantes institution founded in 1957.

“In addition to the 7,000 titles on the Christian religion, Judaism and Islam, I developed an offer of monastic products. And we have published Santons that honor the city: Anne of Brittany, Saint Donatien, Saint Rogatien… and even Jules Verne. »»

A walker bookseller

The bookseller also created a radius offering guides, maps, pilgrimage stories. Because it is his second passion: he walked towards Compostela, Mont Saint-Michel, Chartres, Pontmain and started the Tro Breiz (Tour de Bretagne).

Also, when the Haltes Pilgrim Association offered to co -organize the Nantes forum of the Chemins, it was not asked! Just as he co -organized the first Christian book festival in Angers in early February.

“Brittany, faith, books, pilgrimages: for me, it is a natural whole,” he concludes. I had the chance to receive this inheritance, and it was with enthusiasm that I want to transmit it to a large audience. Starting with his three children who read and pilgrim assiduously.