The French media have farewelled the Englishman Edward Bond, who died on March 3 at the age of 89 in Cambridge. The writer shook the London scene in the late 60s and early 70s with a handful of works that showed the hardship and brutalization to which working-class young people were forced.

In 1985 he stepped down as director of The War Plays, a Royal Shakespeare Company production, and accused the company of “flirting with the tourism sector” “English theater has become childish, it only appeals to emotions,” he complained in an interview.