MAURICE SCHUMANN   French Ambassador   Maurice Schumann: When I reached Pondicherry, I found as governor there Francois Baron, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo steeped in Hindu mysticism, but, above all, a former volunteer in the Free French forces linked to me by those ties of loyalty that very rightly still connected … all those who had made the right choice already in 1940-and not just in 1942-3 or in 1944. And Francois told me. “We’ll go straight away to see the Mother of the Ashram, Mme Alfassa-an extraordinary woman I have often spoken about.” [We then] spent an hour w