There is the man, who has lived a century, led an existence made up of military debuffs and political contests.
From Bir Hakeim where he fought in a unit of the Foreign Legion in the government under the Pompidou presidency, the life of Hubert Germain was that of a character of Kessel, romantic at will.
To his visitors, he told it cheerfully, in the present and in the first person singular: the exit from the entrenched camp, the Italian campaign, his ministerial portfolios.
We were there.
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There is the symbol.
Of course, Germain never equaled the historical stature of a Leclerc, a de Lattre, he did not have the political life of his friend Messmer, but fate gave him a special place in the great gesture. Companions of which he had been one of the youngest members, at 23: he was the last.
De Gaulle, who created this phalanx in 1940, also wanted it to disappear.
They are 1,038, for eternity.
Its ultimate representative will rest in the crypt of Mont-Valérien.
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