Publication of Vagabonds Efficaces et autres récits. Creation of the association Les Neumes, designed to maintain activities in Cévennes. Nearly fifteen children spend Christmas in the network. Filming for the Chris Marker-backed Le Moindre Geste comes to an end.  The film is selected and screened at the Week of Criticism at the 1971 Cannes Festival (it would only enter the screening circuit in France in 2004). Jacques Lin takes up residence with autistic children at a new settlement in Serret –the site becomes the “laboratory” for the network.