The present translation follows the French edition without change, except for some corrections which were suggested to us by the remarks of M. S. Baouendi, G. Geymonat, C. Goulaouic and P. Schapira, to all of whom we express our sincerest thanks. We have added a complementary bibliography. We also wislr to thank P. Kenneth for his excellent work of translation.
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