OK, so I did a little digging on the guy behind the letter, Huỳnh Khương An [1]. Turns out he was born in Ho Chi Minh City, back when it was called "Saïgon" and

OK, so I did a little digging on the guy behind the letter, Huỳnh Khương An [1]. Turns out he was born in Ho Chi Minh City, back when it was called "Saïgon" and a French colony. He arrived in France between his 12th and 15th birthday, and then became a philosophy professor, and a communist one at that. This guy was very much an intellectual, which explains the pretty and unusual "Aujourd'hui, j'aurais vécu" (Today, I will have lived). I don't think I've ever seen it elsewhere, so he probably came up with it himself. His wife was arrested too but survived the war and went on to continue her communist activism. So yeah, definitely an interesting couple. [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BB%B3nh_Kh%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_An?wprov=sfla1 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BB%B3nh_Kh%C6%B0%C6%A1ng...