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A historian publishes a book dedicated to colonial troops.
Those who expect an ideological point of view - incrimination or defense - will be disappointed, because that is not the author's intention.
Associate and doctor in history, member of the Academy of Overseas Sciences and professor of contemporary history at the University of Lorraine, Julie d'Andurain offers a work which shows, at the hinge of political history and of military history, how the “Coloniale”, from 1900, was not only a military instrument of the Republic, but also a symbol of French sovereignty.
The infantry (porpoises) or artillery (bigors) units which originally formed the colonial troops - armored vehicles and paratroopers would come later - belonged neither to the Navy nor to the Army of Africa, and their staff were not necessarily men of color.
Their specific mission, in Africa or Asia, was to conquer…
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