He enters the empty Olympia with slow steps, as if he were parading, humming To the legionnaires: "When you have eaten your money, and spoiled by a pig blow all his career..." This morning in May, spanning wires and equipment, Lieutenant-Colonel Émile Lardeux, head of the music of the Foreign Legion, makes scouting in anticipation of the concerts that will punctuate the day "Monsieur Légionnaire": twenty-four hours in Paris for hundreds of white kepis. And necessarily songs.
The Legion at the Olympia, you read that right. The one nicknamed the "Chmuc" (conductor of music hors classe) would never have imagined ending a career begun forty-four years ago in the mythical hall of the Boulevard des Capucines. And yet, in front of an audience of 500 legionnaires sent by their units, wounded, guests and amateurs, Émile Lardeux will have his troupe of sixty musicians perform many tunes around the Legion. The idea is that the concert relates...
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