The Imam would work day and night while in France. Not a single day passed without him either giving a speech or declaration. Sometimes the interviewers would comment that they had never witnessed a clergyman give a speech in a 2 x 3 meter room without protocol and formality and without table and a chair and for an Iran to rally round him.[1]
[1]He would work day in and out while in France: Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini