Abstract
In 2006, while preparing to shoot his 2009 essay film Vita Nova, Vincent Meessen met a dozen former military cadets who were once based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Bingerville, Ivory Coast; and Kati, Mali, three of four cities where France had instituted cadet corps programs and schools. Meessen was looking for a cadet named Diouf, who was featured on a Paris Match cover in 1955 and famously singled out in Mythologies by Roland Barthes. Amongst the personal photographic archives Meessen documented then were the portraits of André Zougrana, one of the "enfants de troupe" who had visited France for the military parade of 1955. They offer a set of radical counterpoints to Walter Rizzo's 1955 Paris Match cover shot.
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