Raymond Sacia, Bodyguard of General de Gaulle: Choice of Weapons

Raymond Sacia has a sparkling eye and precise words: At almost 95 years old, he’s still just as handsome. As agreed, he is waiting for us at National Police Shooting Centre, located on the third ba*****t level of the Foch Street car park, a stone’s throw from the Arc de Triomphe. It is accessed via a maze of stairs, a maze of corridors, a filmed airlock, and armored doors. Do not enter there who wants. But we are invited and expected by its founding president, who was the bodyguard of Charles de Gaulle for ten years. Four were watching the general, like the Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas: Paul Cometti, Roger Tessier, Henri Jouder and Raymond Sacia as “first trigger”.

This is the last survivor of an epic told in 2010 General Knight (Guéna editions, preface to Admiral Philippe de Gaulle). On the wall, sepia-colored photos take us back to France Glorious thirty It looks like an autobiography…