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Guynemer’s motto – “FAIRE FACE”

Sep 11

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The WWI French ace Georges Guynemer used to say:

“Il y a une limite à toute chose, et il faut toujours la dépasser.” “Everything has a limit which has always got to be surpassed.”
“Lorsque l’on n’a pas tout donné, on n’a rien donné.” “As long as you have not given your all, you have given nothing”

Last but not least, captain Guynemer’s most famous phrase – “Faire face” “Face up to it” was then adopted by the French Air Force Academy (FAFA) as their motto. A few words that well expresses the French pilots’ bravery.

Loyal to these principles, the French ace took part in several hundreds of aerial combats, crediting 53 victories. He was shot down seven times, and he was admired for he always survived, but that September 11… The hero took off once again. Outnumbered by German warplanes in a last dogfighting over Belgium. Then, he fell.

RIP

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Article published in the latest Air Salon, the French Air Force Academy magazine (click on the article below to enlarge)

Jul 19

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FRENCH DEFENCE 2009

Apr 26

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Philippe ROSTAING has made a superb piece of workmanship once again. He has just written this file called “French Defence 2009″. This document is rather dedicated to SLP 4 preparation (PLS 4). However, this publication will undoubtedly help those who want to make headway in English as well as in their knowledge of the French military and defence. Click on the book on your left to download French Defence 2009

Contents:

1. French Defence Organization
2. French Defence Policy (including the White Paper 2008)
3. The French Army
4. The French Air Force
5. The French Navy
6. The French Gendarmerie
7. Intelligence and the French Intelligence Community

Mr Rostaing and Prepa PLS anglais are very grateful to LA DOCUMENTATION FRANCAISE and its magazine QUESTIONS INTERNATIONALES. Special thanks to Jean Berton (from La documentation française) who gracefully allowed us to copy paste their brilliant French intelligence community diagram which is available on the 35th Questions Internationales, page 47. For those who want to beg him for the keys of the FRENCH DEFENCE 2009 exercices, they can send him a mail to this address: philippe.rostaing2@laposte.net

Philippe Rostaing teaches military English at the French Air Force Academy (EOAA – Salon de Provence). He was an English teacher at the military college of St Cyr Coetquidan. Last but not least he wrote a fabulous French-English / English-French dictionary of land forces.

Please, visit these sources: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/ and http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/revues-collections/questions-internationales/index.shtml