A speech to read and reread:
Citizen Victor Hugo’s speech to the National Assembly on November 11, 1848: “No one more than I, gentlemen, is penetrated by the necessity, the urgent necessity of lightening the budget…”
…so topical!
Victor Hugo: “And what moment do we choose (this is, in my opinion, the serious political error I pointed out at the beginning), what moment do we choose to question all these institutions at once? The moment when they are more necessary than ever, the moment when, far from restricting them, they should be extended and enlarged.
What is the great peril of the present situation? Ignorance; ignorance even more than misery… (Adhesion), ignorance which overflows us, which besieges us, which invests us on all sides. It is thanks to ignorance that certain fatal doctrines pass from the ruthless minds of theorists into the confused brains of the multitudes.”
Website of the association : Save research
Website of the Jean-Pierre Vernant group : “I’ve always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating the walls to the ground” wrote Gustave Flaubert to Ivan Tourgueniev in the autumn of 1872: Schrödinger’s cat, the ivory tower and the tide of shit
.Website of the National Union of Higher Education : snesU.p
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