On 30/03/2008, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
A concrete example can explain that most precisely: the book "La Jeune Inde" is a translation of Mohandas K. Gandhi writings published in France in 1924. The original texts are from 1919 to 1922, and are already in the public domain in USA, and will be in India by 1st January 2009, 60 years after Gandhi's death. The translator is Hélène Hart, she never wrote nor translated anything else beside this book, and her date of death is not known, even to the French National Library (BNF). I personaly called the BNF to ask for details. The book was published only once in 1924, and is out of print since then. If even the BNF does not know anything about Hélène Hart, I doubt anybody else knows it.
Surviving family members? Friends?