+"The relay is named *AlGrothendieck*—a name suggested last "
+"summer during the [[Adopt an onion|Actualités/20150619_adopte_un_oignon]] "
+"campaign—as a reference to the mathematician and ecologist "
+"[Alexandre Grothendieck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Grothendieck), "
+"a long time apatrid who died in France at end of 2014. Anticonformist "
+"and antimilitarist, we can for example hear him give [a talk (in French) "
+"at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in "
+"1972](https://archive.org/details/AlexandreGrothendieck-UneVieDigneDtreVcue) "
+"questionning the social value of scientific research when it now threatens "
+"survival of all human lifes, or even life as a whole. The Internet allowed "
+"[his autobiography](http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~duchamp/Books&more/Grothendieck/RS/pdf/RetS.pdf) (fr) "
+"to be made available when he had not found a publisher in 1985. While last month the "
+"[University of Montpellier decided to give back 20,000 handwritten pages to the "
+"family for inventory](http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/06/08/les-inestimes-grothendieck-papers_1458196) (fr)"
+", the issues raised by Alexandre Grothendieck regarding the "
+"social aspects of science and technology are more relevant than ever."