J. M. G. Le Clézio Clézio used his Nobel prize acceptance lecture to attack the subject of information poverty. The title of his lecture was "Dans la forêt des paradoxes" ("In the forest of paradoxes"), a title he attributed to Stig Dagerman. Gao Xingjian, a Chinese émigré, was the previous French citizen to receive the prize (for 2000); Le Clézio was the first French-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since Claude Simon for 1985, and the fourteenth since Sully Prudhomme, laureate of the first prize of 1901. He is a staunch defender of Mama Rosa, director of a Mexican shelter raided by
French cruiser Sully "Sully" had a draft of and displaced . "Sully" had three propeller shafts, each powered by one vertical triple-expansion steam engine, which were rated at a total of . Twenty-four Belleville water-tube boilers provided steam for her engines. She had a designed speed of . She carried up to of coal and could steam for at a speed of . "Sully"s main armament consisted of two guns mounted in single-gun turrets fore and aft. Her intermediate armament was eight guns. Four of these were in single gun turrets on the sides of the ship and the other four were in