On 31 May 1832, near a pond in the Glacière area on the outskirts of Paris, Évariste Galois lost his life in a mysterious duel (see Tangente 142 and Tangente SUP 60). In 2016, at 16 rue des Bernardins (Paris V), a plaque honoring the young French mathematician cut down at 20 was affixed to the building where Galois had lived for a time. At the initiative of Galois's (indirect) descendants (François Buffet and Clothilde Guinard), in pouring rain, the event brought together a few figures from the worlds of politics, mathematics and the arts.
Two speeches recalled the brief and romantic life of the "Rimbaud of mathematics," without glossing over the many political commitments he made in his time.
