Abstract
The latest census showed that the national territory was populated by sixty million people. If you now consider that there are a total of six chairs of Assyriology in France, you can see that the proportion is one for every ten million inhabitants. If you also consider that four people share these six professorships, and that the number of master's degrees is reduced to a couple, the race of French Assyriological academics is nevertheless proportionally a little more numerous than that of the pandas, of which there are only a few specimens for a billion and a half Chinese, sheltered in zoos, admittedly less prestigious than the Collège de France..
