Chirality in the Maxwell Equations by the Dipole Approximation. Part I H. AMMARI, K. HAMDACHE and J.-C. N\'ED\'ELEC Abstract. We show how chiral materials could be realized by embedding chiral objects (helices) in an isotropic medium. The whole paper is available as a compressed Postscript file by internet procedure FTP anonymous on host barbes.polytechnique.fr ( 129.104.4.100) in the directory pub/RI/1998 under the name ammari_hamdache_nedelec_377.fev.ps.gz or by Netscape or any other www client via the CMAP www server "http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/"