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One cannot start with Adam and Eve, or with the Big Bang. Nevertheless, I must start “the history of my friendship with Roth-schild” before the bonjour. So let me start somewhere in between, in the spring of 1939.1 will start with a confession. In those months I was a senior in high school, and I was asked to write a final composition for my English class. The spring was beautiful, and I used to walk my dog along the banks of the Merrimack selecting always the path through the woods that, as legend had it, the Indians used to take on their treks to the Winnepesaukee region.
Spune — mi tot; începe dela bonjour!
Tell me everything. Begin when he said “bonjour”!
— Marguerite Dorian
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Davis, P.J. (1997). The Rothschild I Knew. In: Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2462-4_4
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