Archive for collaboration
Entre ici Missak Manouchian avec ton terrible cortège
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags 21 février 1944, André Malraux, antisemitism, aux grands hommes la Patrie reconnaissante, collaboration, communist party, French history, FTP-MOI, Jean Moulin, L'Affiche Rouge, L'Armée du Crime, Main d’œuvre immigrée, Mélinée Manouchian, Missak Manouchian, Mont Valérien, Nazi occupation, Panthéon, Parti Communiste Français, Résistance, Spanish Civil War, Vichy régime, WW II on February 21, 2024 by xi'an
the elephant in the biography
Posted in Books with tags amnesty, antisemitism, Céline, collaboration, Denmark, extradition, Gallimard, Guerre, Liberation, Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, Nazis, Norway, Pétain, Sigmarinen, Vichy régime, war, WW II on July 14, 2022 by xi'anAs I was buying Guerre, the long lost novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline that was recently published, I noticed that Gallimard had included a biography of the author with a massive elephant in the room!
Namely the loud silence about his antisemitic writings and collaborationist activities under the Vichy regime, which made him flee to Sigmarinen with the core French collaborators (incl. Pétain and Laval), and then flee again to German-occupied Denmark when Allied troups were approching, where he was later jailed for two years as the Libération French government had requested Céline’s extradition from the new Norwegian goverment. He only returned to France after an amnesty was granted for his disabled war veteran status.
17 octobre 1961 [memory of a massacre]
Posted in pictures with tags 17th of October massacre, Algeria independence war, collaboration, curfew, French police, independence war, manifestation, Maurice Papon, Paris, police murders, Seine on October 17, 2021 by xi'an
God save the Queen, the fascist Marine
Posted in Statistics with tags collaboration, Donald Trump, extreme-right, France, French elections, Front National, Le Vel' d'Hiv, Marine Le Pen, Shoah, Syrian civil war, WWII on April 11, 2017 by xi'an
“C’est un acte belliqueux, c’est sûr. Un acte d’ingérence, c’est clair. Mais ce qui est surtout problématique, c’est qu’il est fait sans attendre l’ouverture de l’enquête internationale. Les faits sont affreux, il faut donc trouver les coupables. Mais encore faut-il qu’une commission internationale puisse mener une enquête indépendante pour pouvoir donner des éléments. Là, il n’y a aucun élément” 8 avril 2017
“La France n’est pas responsable du Vel’ d’Hiv. Je pense que de manière générale, plus généralement d’ailleurs, s’il y a des responsables, c’est ceux qui étaient au pouvoir à l’époque, c’est pas la France.” 9 avril 2017
CosmoPMC released
Posted in R, Statistics, University life with tags astronomy, C code, collaboration, cosmology, importance sampling, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, population Monte Carlo on January 13, 2011 by xi'an
Martin Kilbinger, an astronomer (cosmologist) with whom we had worked on population Monte Carlo for cosmological inference [during the ANR-05-BLAN-0283- 04 ANR ECOSSTAT grant], has made the PMC C codes available on the CosmoPMC webpage. He has also written a CosmoPMC manual that is now available from arXiv. And he very kindly associated me to this publication, even though I never directly contributed to the codes… On a wider perspective, this collaboration between cosmologists and Bayesian and computational statisticians was both fruitful and enjoyable and I hope we can pursue it in the future. A very nice thing about astronomers (among many!) is that they naturally adopt a Bayesian way of thinking about their parameters. This, plus their high math and programming skills, makes the cost of entering a collaboration very low!
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