"We parted like real heroes / At home life has resumed without adventure / There's no one left to steal jams from us / The General at the bistro / Had planted a flag / For the country I paid the bill / I never went back to the market / But sometimes in the summer night sky / We see five stars shine / And it hurts a little bit / Oh never buy a General! "
It was Wednesday, late afternoon, at the Military School in Paris, the day before his election to the French Academy.
A meeting both solemn and good-natured.
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François Sureau, the feather, the pipe and the saber
After having, in uniform, received the military cross, a way to signify his farewell to arms (as a reserve specialist officer in the land army and reserve colonel in the service of the command of the Foreign Legion), François Sureau pronounced a few words then sang this song of the Jacques Brothers,
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Only then, while most of his few close friends present had, in order to
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