In 1993, Attali won a libel suit; he had been accused of having reproduced in his book verbatim, without François Mitterrand's authorization, secret archives and several sentences of the French head of State which were meant for another book. The "Herald Tribune" even published, on the front page, an article claiming (wrongly) that President Mitterrand had asked for the book to be withdrawn from sale. François Mitterrand confirmed in a long interview that he had asked Attali to write this book, and acknowledged that he had proofread it and had been given the possibility to make corrections.