Notes to pp. 213–224 561
20 ‘Des contradictions douloureuses’, round table with Bernard Frederick,
Antoine Casanova, Frédérique Mattonti, Nouvelles Fondations no.
3–4, 2006.
21 L’Humanité, 19 September 1969.
22 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, 24 September 1969.
23 La Gazette de Lausanne, 10–11 October 1970.
24 Letter from Jean-Louis Houdebine to Derrida, 17 March 1970.
25 Interview with Élisabeth Roudinesco. See also her Jacques Lacan &
Co., pp. 540–1 and Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, pp. 350–4.
26 Letter from Derrida to Jean-Luc Nancy, 22 April 1969.
27 Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy.
28 Letter from Derrida to Jean-Luc Nancy, 21 April 1970.
29 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, ‘Hommage’, Rue Descartes no. 48, 2005:
‘Salut à Jacques Derrida’, p. 75.
30 Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, ‘Derrida à
Strasbourg’, in Jacques Derrida et al., Penser à Strasbourg (Paris:
Galilée, 2004), pp. 14–15.
31 Letter from Derrida to Jean-Luc Nancy, 13 September 1970.
32 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, n.d. (October 1970).
33 Interview with Marguerite Derrida.
34 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 5 November 1970.
35 For further details on the events of this period, see Robert Flacelière,
Normale en peril (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971), as well
as the articles by Christian Hottin, ‘80 ans de la vie d’un monument
aux morts: le monument aux morts de l’École normale supérieure’
(http://labyrinthe.revues.org/index262.html) and Pierre Petitmengin,
‘Georges Pompidou vu de l’École’ (http://www.georges-pompidou.org/
Actualites/2004_04_Petitmengin.html).
36 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 21 April 1971.
37 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Foucher, 14 June 1974.
38 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Foucher, 2 March 1975.
39 Letter from Gérard Granel to Derrida, 28 January 1971.
40 Letter from Derrida to Gérard Granel, 4 February 1971.
41 The press cuttings relating to these various petitions are in the Derrida
archives at IMEC.
42 Letter from Derrida to Jean Genet, 20 August 1971. The com-
plete version of this text was fi rst published in English translation
in Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971–2001, texts by
Derrida collected and introduced by Elizabeth Rottenberg (Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002), then reprinted in Mallet and
Michaud, eds, Derrida, pp. 318–20.
43 Letter from Jean-Louis Houdebine to Derrida, 20 December 1970.
44 And not 17 June, as stated in Positions.
45 Derrida, Positions, pp. 62–3.
46 Ibid., p. 54.
47 Fragment of a letter quoted in Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, p. 368.
48 Positions, p. 107 n. 44.
49 Ibid., pp. 108–9 n. 44.
50 Letters from Jean-Louis Houdebine to Derrida, 30 July and 7 August
1971.