*EP Photographs of three “seed” papers in French: M 1951, M 1962c, and M 1965h{H9} This page serves as preface to ten added pages of strictly historical interest. From the 1950s to the 1970s, I presented French announcements- summaries of my main English articles to the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. Three of these "Notes" concern the following topics: "power-law" distributions, long-tailedness in finance, and long dependence in the real world. No one else was interested in those topics, hence these Notes were the first – by long periods of time – in applying sophisticated mathematical modeling in those contexts. Today the originals are often quoted but were not available in a book in English, motivating the photo- graphs that follow. The pages had to be slightly reduced in size. M 1951 explained Zipf's law of word frquencies, once and for all. M 1962c introduced and clearly described the key idea of the PLM (mesofractal) model of price variation. M 1965h introduced and clearly described the key idea of the HHM (unifractal) model. The last two papers led to the fractal/scaling approach to finance. They have aged well and are now described as path-breaking or as seed papers. Of course they were limited to the basic ideas stated tersely – but clearly. Nevertheless, hard work spanning nearly fifty or at least nearly forty years was needed to develop them to the point of present wide acceptance. Previous reproductions of these papers are found in M 1997FE. Part of M 1962c is translated in Section 6.1 of the Introduction of M 1997E. M 1965h is translated as Chapter H9 of M 2002H, which includes an anno- tation explaining the entirely inappropriate term “homothétique à soi”