1908 : the young nationalist movement was in a turmoil ail over India but more particularly in Bengal which didn't accept its partition decided by the British government. As a French territory, Chandernagore was not directly concemed but was nevertheless involved in the events precisely because it was a foreign land. The arrest and extradition of one of the most prominent personalities in the city, Charu Chandra Roy, a learned man, both a teacher and a politician commited to the swadeshist movement, falsely charged with murder, was to reveal to all the difficult and ambiguous position of French Chandernagore.1908 : le jeune mouvement nationaliste est en pleine effervescence dans toute l'Inde, mais plus particulièrement au Bengale, qui n'ac...