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I am indebted to my colleagues: Amit Acharya, Garani Ananthakrishna, Armand J. Beaudoin and Ladislas P. Kubin for the numerous discussions on the plasticity of crystalline materials that inspired the work which finally led to writing this book. I also warmly thank my numerous collaborators: first of all, Vincent Taupin who shared most of this work, and Benoît Beausir, Stéphane Berbenni, Laurent Capolungo, Juliette Chevy, Patrick Cordier, Sylvie Demouchy, Komlan S. Djaka, Paul Duval, Denis Entemeyer, Tatiana Lebedkina, Mikhail Lebyodkin, Russell J. McDonald, Maurine Montagnat, Thiebaud Richeton, Xiaoyu Sun, Satya Varadhan, Pascal Ventura, Guofeng Wang and Jérôme Weiss, who participated in joint publications, and whose work significantly contributed to the contents of the present book. Be they all ensured of my gratitude.