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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
--Hermann Hesse
![[Pic: Gilles d'Aymery]](./portrait/ga.jpg)
Gilles d'Aymery was born in 1950 in France. Educated at the Universities of Economics & Law of Toulouse and Paris, and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he's traveled extensively and speaks several languages. Aymery has worked in the international oil & gas industry, moved to the U.S. in 1982, eventually changed course to become a computer consultant to small US businesses, and created Swans in 1996. He has been dedicating his time to the project since January 2001.
To learn more about him one can read Inside Swans' Engine Room, an interview he gave to his partner in crime and companion, co-editor Jan Baughman, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Swans.
His work, besides the day to day maintenance of the site, the interaction with the contributors -- the flock of Swans -- and the endless correspondence with the political and literary hodgepodge, includes over 300 essays and articles that can be accessed in the yearly archives, at:
1996 || 1997 || 1998 || 1999 || 2000 || 2001 || 2002 || 2003 || 2004 || 2005 || 2006 || 2007 || 2008 || 2009
A couple of examples...
• Do as I say... - 05/09/96: The sheer hypocrisy of the US system told with humor through the example of energy consumption and the help of China.
• Just call it Beta I - 05/01/96: The very first commentary ever published on Swans, undoubtedly deserving the limelight of history!