XVII I Preface
my Paris flat was destroyed 23 because I had, rather mildly in fact, spoken
out during a lecture against the savage repression in Paris of a peaceful Algerian demonstration for independence, I received two days later a telegram
from J. Robert Oppenheimer inviting me, on very generous terms, to spend
the remainder of the academic year at the Princeton Institute; we went two
months later, and there my wife recovered her usual balance.
It goes without saying that the facts and opinions to be found in this book
are my own and full responsibility. They do not commit Springer- Verlag to
any degree. Some will perhaps reproach my publisher for not having censored
me. Being ill-placed to do so in their place I prefer, for myself, to thank
them warmly for having been allowed the liberty to express myself. This is
an attitude which I surely would not have encountered everywhere and which
I appreciate for its proper worth.
Paris 2003.
Rgodement@aol.com
23 My wife, who was there, was extremely lucky not to be hurt, though she was
badly shaken for months afterwards; my three children came home from school
fifteen minutes after the bombing. The very first thing I noticed after climbing a
ladder to my place was the police searching my papers (there was nothing to be
found). Though they certainly identified the authors of this attempt - probably
candidates to the French equivalent of West Point school, according to my own
students - I was never told anything and I very much doubt that they ever had
to bear any unpleasant consequences.
my Paris flat was destroyed 23 because I had, rather mildly in fact, spoken
out during a lecture against the savage repression in Paris of a peaceful Algerian demonstration for independence, I received two days later a telegram
from J. Robert Oppenheimer inviting me, on very generous terms, to spend
the remainder of the academic year at the Princeton Institute; we went two
months later, and there my wife recovered her usual balance.
It goes without saying that the facts and opinions to be found in this book
are my own and full responsibility. They do not commit Springer- Verlag to
any degree. Some will perhaps reproach my publisher for not having censored
me. Being ill-placed to do so in their place I prefer, for myself, to thank
them warmly for having been allowed the liberty to express myself. This is
an attitude which I surely would not have encountered everywhere and which
I appreciate for its proper worth.
Paris 2003.
Rgodement@aol.com
23 My wife, who was there, was extremely lucky not to be hurt, though she was
badly shaken for months afterwards; my three children came home from school
fifteen minutes after the bombing. The very first thing I noticed after climbing a
ladder to my place was the police searching my papers (there was nothing to be
found). Though they certainly identified the authors of this attempt - probably
candidates to the French equivalent of West Point school, according to my own
students - I was never told anything and I very much doubt that they ever had
to bear any unpleasant consequences.