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The Carignan-Salières Regiment was a 17th-century French military unit formed by the merging of two other regiments in 1659. Approximately 1,100 men from the regiment were sent to New France in 1665 to deal with the threat of the Iroquois to the colony. While in New France they were under the command of the Lieutenant Général of the Americas ...
Le petit soldat (transl. The Little Soldier ) is a French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960, but its release was delayed until 1963 by censorship. It was the first project on which Godard worked with Anna Karina , who stars alongside Michel Subor , but the third to be released.
In 1933 future French president Georges Pompidou served in the regiment as a second lieutenant. [1] The 92nd Regiment suffered heavy losses in the 1940 Battle of France and their flag was lost in the sinking of the French destroyer Siroco off Dunkirk on 31 May. [1] The unit was re-established in 1944 from a group of Maquis operating in Auvergne ...
In front of the monument, and sloping downhill, lies the largest single French military cemetery of the First World War, with 16,142 graves. It was initiated in 1923 by Verdun veteran André Maginot, who would later create the Maginot Line. The ossuary was officially inaugurated on 7 August 1932 by French President Albert Lebrun .
World War I. World War II. The Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa ( French: Bataillons d'Infanterie Légère d'Afrique or BILA ), better known under the acronym Bat' d'Af', were French infantry and construction units, serving in Northern Africa, made up of men with prison records who still had to do their military service, or soldiers with ...
French zouave, c. 1870 A small detachment of France's 4th Regiment of Zouaves in the M'Sila region during the Algerian War, c. 1961 The Zouaves (French pronunciation: ⓘ) were a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army serving between 1830 and 1962 and linked to French North Africa; as well as some units of other countries modelled upon them.
Languedoc Regiment. The Régiment de Languedoc was a French Army regiment active in the 18th century. It is principally known for its role in the Seven Years' War, when it served in the North American theatre .
Pierre Guyotat (9 January 1940 – 7 February 2020) was a French literary avant-garde writer who wrote fiction, non-fiction, and plays. He is best known for his 1967 novel Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats (Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers), about his experiences in the Algerian War, and his 1970 novel Eden, Eden, Eden [], which was banned for its explicit content.