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'They danced, and some of the spectators claimed they could see tears rolling down the master's face and that they heard Mathilde say in Arabic: 'You are happy, aren't you?' '

'The guilty were executed in public, among crowds on Place de Greve. What would be the point in a firing squad or a guillotine if the people were not there to watch?'

'He would work in the basement of the police station, interrogating prisoners who were half-mad from the lack of sleep and the physical violence.'

'On 29 March, Hassan II had declared: 'There is no greater danger to the state than the so-called intellectual. It would be better for you to be illiterate.' '

'This world was full of fathers who must be shown respect: God, the king, the military, the heroes of independence, the workers.'