[Foundation-l] Stroop report

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 22:11:23 UTC 2008


On 30/03/2008, Yann Forget <yann at 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?


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geni



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