Raymond Sasia has a sparkling eye and precise words: at almost 95 years old, the man still wears just as handsome.
As agreed, he is waiting for us at the National Police Shooting Center, located in the third basement of the Avenue Foch car park, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe.
It is accessed via a labyrinth of stairs, a maze of corridors, a filmed airlock and armored doors.
Do not enter there who wants.
But we are invited and expected by its founding president, who was Charles de Gaulle's bodyguard for ten years.
They were four to watch over the General, like the musketeers of Alexandre Dumas: Paul Comiti, Roger Tessier, Henri Djouder and, as "first trigger", Raymond Sasia.
This is the last survivor of an epic he recounted in 2010 in
Mousquetaire du Général
(Editions Guéna, preface by Admiral Philippe de Gaulle).
On the wall, sepia-colored photos that take us back to the France of the post-war thirties and are like an illustrated biography...
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