by Jacques Vergès · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782710308737
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«J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans» is the autobiography of French lawyer Jacques Vergès, published by La Table ronde in paperback (238 pages, in French).
In these memoirs, Jacques Vergès reviews his personal and professional career as a lawyer in France. The narrative combines autobiographical reflection with his view of the practice of law and the French legal system, based on the cases that marked his career.
Published in Paris in 1998, the book is catalogued as an autobiography and classified in the Law and History sections.
Recommended for readers interested in lawyers' memoirs, French judicial history, and the practice of defence.
Jacques Vergès was a French-Algerian lawyer of Vietnamese origin and anti-colonial activist. Vergès began as a fighter in the French Resistance during World War II, under Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. After becoming a lawyer, he became well known for his defense of FLN militants during the Algerian War of Independence. He was later involved in a number of controversial and high-profile legal cases, with a series of defendants charged with terrorism, serial murder, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. This includes Nazi officer Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon", in 1987, terrorist Carlos the Jackal in 1994, and former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in 2008. He also defended infamous Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy in 1998, as well as members of the Baader-Meinhof gang. As a result of taking on such clients, he garnered criticism from members of the public, including intellectuals Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut, political activist Gerry Gable and Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld.
