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Roger Louis Faulques (14 December 1924 – 6 November 2011) [2] a.k.a. René Faulques, was a French Army Colonel, a graduate of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, a paratrooper officer of the French Foreign Legion, and a mercenary. He fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Suez Crisis, the Algerian War, the Congo Crisis ...
Roger Louis Faulques, alias René, né le 14 décembre 1924 à Coblence 1 et décédé le 6 novembre 2011 (à 86 ans) à Nice, est un militaire puis mercenaire français, chef de bataillon issu de l' École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, officier parachutiste de la Légion étrangère .
On peut avoir une idée des événements du Katanga à travers le roman de Lartéguy, Les Chimèresnoires, dont le personnage du héros, La Roncière, est inspiré de Roger Faulques. 13 En 1968, il est accusé par L’Express d’avoir torturé deux militants communistes en Algérie, Maurice Audin et Henri Alleg. Il assignera l’hebdomadaire ...
Lieutenant Colonel Roger Faulques, a Frenchman, was made chief of staff. In response to Rum Punch, he established a headquarters near Kolwezi to coordinate guerrilla resistance against ONUC. [55] Though it had lost a large number of its aircraft, the Katangese Air Force still maintained air superiority over Katanga, as the UN had no combat aircraft of its own.
Apr 14, 2022 · On Sept. 6, the UN discovered that a guerrilla warfare group led by a French mercenary officer, Maj. Roger Faulques, who used to be Sergent’s direct superior in the Foreign Legion, was planning to “use plastic bombs against UN buildings” and had set up a “liquidation” list against UN civilian and military leaders, according to another ...
Roger Faulques was one of those French military servicemen. The French honored him for his actions in that battle because he had either been ordered to be there, or had gone there as part of a volunteer force in support of official French policy. 1 - Faulques was NOT at Jadotville. It was another ex FFL.
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Auteur (s) de l'ouvrage : Marc Dupont Indo Éditions, 2017 ; 224 pages. Roger Faulques - L’homme aux mille vies (1924-2011) « Un homme d’explosions brusques et de feu [aux] yeux gris et perçants », ainsi le décrit le commandant Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc qui le considère comme un des « deux capitaines [qui] ont eu une importance ...
