[The_Reader_David]

Yup, but French or not, the symmetry group of the Standard Model drops out as the unitary symmetries of more or less the most simple noncommutative geometry.

The preprint at

hep-th/9501077 (Google this, and the page rank 1 entry is a link to download the paper in pdf)

and the papers it cites (all in English by their titles, at least, including those by Connes) lay it out fair and square.

[grey_whiskers]

I was making a pun on his name; just as whenever I see the Discover Institute's "Wedge Document" I am apt to mis-read it as "Wedgie Document".

No sense of humor tonight, eh?

I am in the middle of a job change, not much time for anything heavy right now.

I will add this to my exponentially increasing list of bookmarks; thanks for telling me.

Cheers!