Adjudant Gonzague CARPENTIER
We live in an evolving society full of paradoxes.
The issue of memory is one. It seems that memory, in all is shapes and forms, is at the heart of all and everything.
At the same time as we're finding ways to fight Alzheimer's disease, people are turning towards their history to better understand it. Growing within our countries, we see a variety of historical organizations with various goals as well as associations of Living History, bound to faithfully reenact past times or notable events throughout our history.
Nostalgia over flowery pasts or the need to anchor reality in the certainty of the past, the objectives of these associations are many and varied.
The Gendarmerie, an institution over 700 years old that passed the greatest tests, is not spared by this phenomenon. People who carry history as a passion are bound to make the greatest hours of the Gendarmerie reflower, which reinforces the people's attraction not only to the traditional duties of the Gendarmerie but also its most innovating ones.
Two young soldiers of the Gendarmerie have embarked on a project that is ambitious as it is original. The gendarme from the mobile Gendarmerie, Aymeric SAVARY, and the reservist deputy gendarme, Kristian BOULINGUEZ, are going to slip into the shoes of Gallois de Fougières and Jehan de Quesnes respectively and wear armour crafted to be identical to theirs during the reenactment which will happen on the 25th of October 2015 on the battlefield of Azincourt. These two knights, companions in arms, died together during the battle and remained buried side by side for more than 500 years in the abbey of Auchy-lès-Hesdin.
Their purpose is not only to follow the trail of what this battle was as faithfully as possible but also to remind us of our history throughout the Hundred Years War. Gallois de Fougières, provost of the marshals, is, in this capacity, considered the first gendarme to have died in battle.
The advancement of these two young soldiers is increasingly followed up on these days. Following the anglo-saxon reenactment tradition, people try to faithfully follow and replay the Gendarmerie's feats of arms.
Among them are the gendarme of the air force Denis SEMPÉ who holds a position of note because, all by himself, he's led many fascinated by history on the trails of many battlefields of the French Empire, the First and Second World Wars and the Indochina War.
Rigour over the historical facts, perfection required for the outfits, clear eagerness of the participants... The chief ingredients to transmit the memory of the Gendarmerie are reunited.
The die is thus cast and the link between armsmen and gendarmes done.
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