Band Aid

among the upper classes as well, and in a parallel way, so to speak. In one place they say a former student intercepted mail on the highway; in another, people of advanced social position have been counterfeiting banknotes; then, in Moscow, a whole band is caught making forged tickets for the latest lottery—and among the chief participants is a lecturer in world history; then one of our embassy secretaries is murdered abroad, for reasons mysterious and monetary...[lix] And now, if this old pawnbroker

passent et il se mit à lutter avec lui-même. C'est alors que Dieu exalté fit descendre ce verset: «Ne chasse pas ceux qui invoquent leur Seigneur le matin et l'après-midi désirant Son seul Visage!» (Chapitre 6 verset 52) (Rapporté par Moslem) 261. Selon 'Àid Ibn 'Amr Al Mouzannï (c'est l'un de ceux qui firent l'acte d'allégeance d'Arradwàn) (das), Abou Soufyàn vint avec un groupe d'hommes à Salmàn, Souhayb et Bilàl (un Perse, un Byzantin et un Abyssin). Ces trois derniers dirent (faisant allusion à Abou

practised geometry without figures. There is a tradition in the École Polytechnique that Monge knew to an amazing degree how to make his audience imagine the most complicated forms of extension in space, and their most hidden properties, without any other aid but his hands, whose movements followed his words admirably . . . (Chasles 1837, p. 209) 4. In an earlier draft, I used the phrase ‘confused with’ rather than ‘identical with’; but the confusion is more that of the historian, who has to try to understand