Admitted to the ENA, Jacques Chirac must do his military service, and in 1956, he was assigned to Algeria, in the djebel, at the head of a platoon of 32 men.

Back in France, he would embrace the military career.

But he passed the ENA… Listen to the story of this period of his life, by Christophe Hondelatte and his guest, the Historian Jean-Luc Barre.

Guest:

Jean-Luc Barré

, writer, historian and editor, co-author of the autobiography of Jacques Chirac.