#capitaine

Red Huricane - Hong Kong

IL Y A 200 ANS | Mort de Blancard, introducteur du chrysanthème en France ➽ http://bit.ly/Pierre-Blancard Le 16 mars 1826 s'éteint celui qui inscrivit son nom dans l’histoire botanique en 1789. Navigateur marseillais formé aux routes des Indes, Pierre Blancard introduisit clandestinement en France, de retour de Canton, trois plants de « chrysanthème indicum », fleur sacrée d’Orient. Une seule variété survécut au Jardin des Plantes de Paris : ainsi s’acclimata, sous nos latitudes, la « fleur d’or »

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Capitaine Jean Graziani, born in Algeria in the same town Albert Camus was born. Joined the US Army at the age of 16 in 1942 after allied forces landed in Algeria before being kicked out because of his age. Joined the French resistance, shipping him to Scotland to be trained as an SAS demolition specialist before being parachuted in occupied France to delay the German retreat of 1944, destroying bridges, railways and sabotaging a hundred phone lines. He will serve in the 3rd BCCP paratrooper regiment in Indochina, leading a commando unit behind enemy lines before being captured by the Viet Minh during an attempt to rescue an encircle column of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion. He will stay 4 years in a prisoner camp despite two escapes attempts, his last enabling hime to sail 60km along the Song Gain river on a makeshift raft. He would later be assigned to a counter-insurgency unit in Algeria where he will be killed on January 6, 1959 after being hit with submachine gun fire in the guts during an operation in Kabylie. He had enough time to give his watch to a good friend of him during his helicopter transfer. The journey of this shock troop officer pictures very well the journey of many French officers during the post WW2 colonial wars and their ambiguity. Often pulled from the ranks of the resistance to fight tyranny, they ressorted to the same techniques to maintain France's grasp on its colonial empire. Many of them ended in jail or as outcasts, torn and disabused by their experience of violence mixed with politics and the slow decay of their empire and youth ideals.

Bachi Bouzouk !