Back to France (1966–1971)

Abstract

Louis Pouzin became a great traveler: he journeyed back and forth between most European capitals (Rome, Stockholm, Berlin, London…) and the major cities of France. “I had become the propagandist of time sharing. I made the presentations with large panels and markers”, he recalls with amusement. “It allowed me to be recognized a little bit in France, especially in universities… because before, when we were engineers at Bull, engineers from an industrial company, we had no connection with academics. So, I found myself with very easy relationships with researchers: they were interested in going to the United States and working on time sharing because they didn’t know what it was. Thus, at my level, I brought the communities closer together”. But in 1966, after a whole year of “touring Europe”, and despite the pleasure of travelling, the Bull star trained at MIT began to get tired of it. “I thought it was a little repetitive, I had experienced the position in full. It was always the same speech to companies—about the benefits of timeshare, which made it possible to develop programs much faster, in a few days instead of a few months”.