Cindynics, The Science of Danger

Appendix 6Archeocindynic Study

René Baeli was the last director of the École d’ingénieurs de Marseille before its merger with Centrale Marseille. Knight of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques¹, he was president of the scientific council of the Institut Méditerranéen des Cindyniques and vice president of the Association méditerranéenne pour l’étude des missions publiques de protection civile. For many years, he also provided scientific assistance to the Bouches du Rhône Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS13).

He was introduced to cindynics by Georges Yves Kervern and introduced the teaching of cindynics into the School’s curriculum.

At the time, he had asked the engineering students to make a cindynic study of a disaster or accident of their choice. Some students had chosen to study historical or even legendary facts...

He was thus able to build up a database over several years and to gather these historical analyses in Les Archéocindyniques which applies the principles of cindynics to 16 events that have marked French history.

With the author’s permission, we have extracted five events which we reproduce here, in addition to a brief reminder of the facts and the analysis of “systemic cindynogenic deficits”.

The book has become a pedagogical objective showing that the methods associated with the science of danger can very well be applied to feedback of distant events, the analysis of which is always instructive.

Analysis of historical facts

A6.1. Alesia: 53 BCE