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We will discuss about the coupling between the classical thermal environment and a mesoscopic system. Around this theme, we will deal with several questions : Is the heat bath always in equilibrium? How can we compare the fluctuation-dissipation relations of the 1st kind and the 2nd kind? How the energy is exchanged between the heat bath and the system? Does this energy, or heat, depend on the scale of description? What aspects are the Langevin equation unable to describe? How can we see the spatio-temporal non-locality of the heat bath? Are the `Casimir' type reversible forces related to the frictional memory forces ?

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