Alastair Brotchie's foreword begins, 'Even unconscious pataphysicians acknowledge that among the sciences, exact and otherwise, history is among the most imaginary of all solutions. The present history is an exception that constitutes a rule, like all others.' Translated by Paul Edwards; Atlas Archive: the College of Pataphysics, Number IX, Part 1. An illustrated history of the 'science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions': manifestoes, statutes, office bearers, first published in English in 1995.
