Stéphane Hessel is one of the most famous contemporary French writers abroad. His booklet « Indignez-vous » (Time for Outrage!) has been published all around the world. This worldwide success changed the peaceful life of the 93 year-old man, always rushing from a television studio to a radio station, from a capital city to another, from an airport to a conference meeting. « As long as you can have an influence on something, you should enjoy it... » said the author at a Swedish television, quite surprised when his essay was not only published in France, but also in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Argentina...  

Since it was launched in October 2010, near 2.5 millions copies were sold in France and 1 million were sold abroad. Nevertheless, it is not the sells' numbers that made an impression on people, but the slogan, still used today in some of the rebel capital cities. There was even a Russian billionaire, Mikhaïl Khodorkovski, who contacted with Hessel's publisher from his cell in an attempt to translate the text into Russian. Meanwhile, when Stéphane was asked about this new successful life, he said it caused some troubles to his everyday life with his wife.