SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in...

SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana

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« SELVA »: this small word of Brazilian Portuguese punctuates, day after day and year after year, the conversations of the legionnaires serving in the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment, signifying by turns a word of thanks, a negation, a question, or concretely the acceptance of a received mission.

Is this merely a superfluous affectation, of little interest beyond underlining in everyday speech the exotic character of the Amazonian rainforest?

Or is it, more than a simple filler word, an idea too rich to be expressed by more learned terms: an idea encompassing the density and lushness of the equatorial forest — at once an obstacle and a companion to the men who strive to serve within it — and the spirit of sacrifice particular to those who know its cost and its hardships?

On the occasion of the celebration of its fifty years of deployment in French Guiana, the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment is honoured and proud to announce the publication of a regimental book whose principal subject is the specificity of its presence since 1973: the equatorial forest. Selva!

 

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Author 1
Captain Quentin Gomel
Publication date
February 2024
Pages
246
Illustrations
Approximately 200 photos
Cover
Hardcover
Format
21.5 cm × 28.6 cm
Language
French
Publisher
Pierre de Taillac

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