# The French Art of War

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- Book: [The French Art of War](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexis-jenni/the-french-art-of-war) ([The French Art of War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexis-jenni/the-french-art-of-war.md))
- Authors: [Alexis Jenni](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexis-jenni), [Frank Wynne](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-garfield)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-08-5789-754-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers across the globe, a man with the blood of others up to his elbows. He said he would teach me to paint; he must have been the only painter in the French Forces, but out there no one cares about such things. I cared, though. In return, he wanted me to write his life story. And so he talked, and I wrote, and through him I witnessed the rivers of blood that cut channels through France, I saw the deaths that were as numberless as they were senseless and I began finally to understand the French art of war.