Julie d'Andurain is an associate professor and doctor in history, member of the Overseas Academy of Sciences, and professor of contemporary history at the University of Lorraine. His biography of General Gouraud was particularly noted. This February 21, she published
The Colonial Troops, a political and military history
in past editions.
LE FIGARO.
-
“A political and military history of the colonial troops [...] does not yet exist”
, you write in the introduction.
Why is it so little known?
Julie d'ANDURAIN.
- Due to a semantic problem on the definition of
“colonial troops”
.
There is great confusion between
the “colonial army”
, which is an unidentified object and which does not formally exist,
the “African army”
which corresponds to the troops based in North Africa, and the role that plays the Navy in the context of colonization.
The
“colonial troops”
were diluted into these different structures over time.
The colonial troops were created…
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