Abstract

Lost soldiers of orphan wars, Laurent Beccaria. Shocked by the defeat of 1940, lieutenants in the Indochina war, captains in the Algerian war, some officers of paratroop regiments or the Foreign legion lived as far as the putsch or the wreck a particular generation-effect. Their fate is ignored in French collective memory but the myths which they embodied still sometimes seem to continue seducing new generations of young officers.

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