an accompanying Bréguet Atlantic aircraft that she would be at her berth in about an hour. This proved to be the last time the boat and her crew of six officers and 46 enlistees made contact. She disappeared in waters between deep. Commander Philipe Bouillot later said that Minerves new captain, Lieutenant de vaisseau André Fauve, had spent 7,000 hours submerged over four years on submarines of the same class and never had a problem. The only factor known that could have caused her to sink was the weather, which was extremely bad at the time of her loss. The French Navy launched a search for the missing submarine, mobilizing numerous ships, including the aircraft carrier and the submersible under the supervision of Jacques Cousteau, but found nothing, and the operation was called off on 2 February 1968. The search for Minerve, under the name Operation Reminer, continued into 1969 and used the submersible Archimède with the U.S. survey ship . Struggle of the families for the truth During the years that followed, the families fought to find out what could have happened. The French Navy did not communicate any information on the possible causes of the sinking. The file was classified as "Secret Defense" which means no one could have access to it for 50 years. After having requested access to the file many times, always refused, Christophe Agnus, son of one of the missing officers, obtained in 2007, at the invitation of Nicolas Sarkozy, an exemption to consult the archives. He discovered nothing. Other families obtained this right, and then suspected the Navy of concealing elements compromising it. In 2018, the son of the last commander of the Minerve, Hervé Fauve, addressed the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to request an early lifting of the defence secrecy on the "Minerve" file. The file has been kept in the archives since 1977, and its declassification should not take place until 50 years after the most recent piece of the file, dated 1970, i.e. in 2020. There is a risk that an automatic renewal of the file will extend this secrecy by 10 years, i.e. 2030 or more. He argues that the file is 'empty' according to those who have consulted it, that no similar submarine is still in use, that it does not contain any element contrary to the security of the state and above all that