| Every age has its complement of heroes, sailing an epic course, hated by half their fellows and idolized by the other half. They personify mankind's argument with itself, they symbolize our most intimate concerns, they are distillates of modernity, beings whose intensity is stretched to the limits. Franz Weber is one of these enigmas, one of these idols, one of the damned, one of our heroes. He is an ecologist as one might be an adventurer, he is a dissident as one might be a patron of the arts, he is a journalist as one might be a knight in armour. He has taken on the mission of protector. He has organized the funding of an elephant reserve in Togo, campaigned against vivisection and the massacre of baby seals; he has set up the International Court of Justice for Animal Rights, and he has saved endangered natural sites in France, Greece and Switzerland. This man is a legend in his lifetime. A legend of the end of the century and the beginning of Europe. |
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