VAN DER ESSEN (Witness): Van der Essen.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you swear to speak without hate or fear, to say the
truth, all the truth, and only the truth?
Raise your right hand and say “I swear.”
VAN DER ESSEN: I swear.
THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down, if you wish.
M. FAURE: M. Van der Essen, you are a professor of history in the
Faculty of Letters at the University of Louvain?
VAN DER ESSEN: Yes.