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be given to me. What will they be? I don't know, and that is why I write you the farewell that my death must deliver you. It is to those like you that it is entirely dedicated, those who will be enabled to be reborn and to rebuild. And I think of your children who will be free tomorrow. Farewell.
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On 17 November 1946, an inauguration in the courtyard of the École
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