Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt

This text presents reflections on my participation in the "jungle platoon leader" training course organized by the French Foreign Legion in its training center in French Guiana, the Training Centre in Equatorial Forest (CEFE). Besides describing the running of the course in the manner of a...

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Main Author: François-Michel Le Tourneau
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Language:English
Published: Confins 2016-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/confins/11322
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description This text presents reflections on my participation in the "jungle platoon leader" training course organized by the French Foreign Legion in its training center in French Guiana, the Training Centre in Equatorial Forest (CEFE). Besides describing the running of the course in the manner of a field book, I compare the teachings received on this occasion with others from other contexts, including with my experience among Native Americans. In taking stock of the contributions of this adventure for the practice of geography in the Amazonian forest, I finally answer a question that Molière would not have disowned: "What the Hell would he be doing in this galley?".
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spellingShingle François-Michel Le Tourneau
Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt
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armed forces
tactics
title Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt
title_full Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt
title_fullStr Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt
title_full_unstemmed Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt
title_short Deux mois à la Légion : une autre vision de la forêt
title_sort deux mois a la legion une autre vision de la foret
topic Guyana
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url https://journals.openedition.org/confins/11322
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