Abstract: This text testifies to the singular bond maintained between the author and Peter Schnyder over the course of a rich academic and professional trajectory, in line with the illustrious aphorism Montaigne wrote in homage to his friend La Boétie in the Essais: ‘In fact, what we ordinarily call friends and friendships are but acquaintances and familiarities, forged by some occasion or for some use […]. If one presses me to say why I loved him, I feel that it can only be expressed by replying: “because it was him, because it was me”’.
