Thursday 27 May 2010
Table of Contents
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:59
With Complete Impunity
With Complete Impunity:The Scandalous Destruction of Alcatel Alsthom, by Pierre Suard
Translated from French by James E. Terrell
Translator's note
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:57
Translated from French by James E. Terrell
French words and phrases. Certain
French words and phrases are not easily translatable into English
because they have special meanings and no real Anglo-American
equivalent—such as the names of the various French courts. As a
result, the French words are used in this translation. Below is a
list of those French words and phrases, along with a brief
description of each:
Foreword
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:55
It took only 20 years from the dazzling flight of Alcatel until its disappearance without glory into the fold of Lucent. The industrial world is brutal for those who fail to adapt to its changes, with its movements and capriciousness.
Inscription
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:50
Character
– it is first of all to ignore being offended
or abandoned by one’s family.
Charles
de Gaulle, “The Blade of the Sword”
Prologue
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:48
Shame
is not for me; it is for those who have
judged me.
Socrates,
at the conclusion of his trial
Chapter I - The Fabrication of an Affair
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:46
Hoc
volo, sic jubeo, sic pro ratione voluntas.
I
want it, I order it, my desire takes over the place of reason.
Juvénal
(Satires VI)
Chapter II - The "Overbillings"
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:44
Scratch the judge and you will find the executioner.
Victor Hugo
Chapter III - A Mythomaniac Witness
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:42
He
who betrays loses, and others with him.
La Chanson de Roland
Chapter IV - A Tenacious Minority Shareholder
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:38
Discernment is the principal function of a judge
and the necessary quality of judgment.
Bossuet, Sermon on the Guardian Angel
Bossuet, Sermon on the Guardian Angel
Chapter V - A New CEO
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:31
Henceforth I will only be a powerless witness of the decadence.
Charles de Gaulle
Chapter VI - The New Strategy: The Divestitures
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:29
There is the beginning of the end.
Talleyrand
Talleyrand
Chapter VII - The New Strategy: Only Telecom
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:49
Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines
Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
There is a just dimension: there are finally precise limits
beyond which good cannot be sustained
Horace (Satires)
Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
There is a just dimension: there are finally precise limits
beyond which good cannot be sustained
Horace (Satires)
Chapitre VIII - Assessing the Decade
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:42
Tchuruk passed by there. All is in ruin and mourning.
Chio, the island of wine, is now nothing more than a reef.
according to Victor Hugo
Chio, the island of wine, is now nothing more than a reef.
according to Victor Hugo
Chapter IX - Reflections on this Judicial Disaster
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 12:10
Look at the power that the judges have!
There is in that power an extraordinary deviation which only Parliament can correct.
François Mitterrand (April 19, 1995)
There is in that power an extraordinary deviation which only Parliament can correct.
François Mitterrand (April 19, 1995)
Epilogue
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 27 May 2010, 11:42
What more terrible curse than an injustice that has arms in its hand''.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Aristotle, Metaphysics
