In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
At this moment in time, after four eventful months of residence in France, I am leaving this place to serve my country. I feel it necessary to thank the French government, which has provided me with the security measures and the means for freedom of speech, and also the respectable local people who, with their humanitarian sense, have expressed their enthusiasm for the freedom and independence of Iran. I hope I will never forget the hospitality of the French nation and government and their freedom-loving sense. I would like to extend my apology to the neighbors and the local people of Neauphle-le-Chateau for all the inconvenience I have caused them. I hope they will approve of the esteem in which I hold them.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Rabi` al-Awwal 2,1399 AH