[inaudible conversations] okay, can you hear us? so, welcome to everyone here. we re so delighted to have this special event this evening with stephane hessel. we re happy to welcome so many of you here tonight, and it s a great honor for us to welcome stephane hessel to talk about the english translation of the book which has been translated into english as time for outrage and has been published by 12 book group. he has, of course, led a long and rich and very engaged rife. i can only hit on some of the milestones of that remarkable life in introducing him. he s 93 years old, turning 94 next month. [applause] he is born in germany in 1917 in the midst of the war in the same year of the russian revolution, which was perhaps meaningful for what would come in his life later, and he moved to france with his parents and brother in 1924. he grew up in a very artistic household, family, friends. he was nationalized as a french citizen in 1937. though his citizenship was taken aw