Military chaplain, paratrooper, alpine hunter, missionary in Chad, he had a thousand lives. An emblematic figure of the Foreign Legion, where he served for twenty-three years, he published his Memoirs.
His father wanted him to be a naval officer. But even the deep and sincere love he felt for the young woman with whom he wanted to start a family did not resist God’s call. His vocation took everything. And when, in September 1956, Yannick Lallemand entered the Poitiers seminary, with his baccalaureate in his pocket, his only certainty was that he would be a priest. « At that time, I was just 19 years old and I was still hesitant about my true vocation: would I be a parish priest? ? monk ? missionary or military chaplain ? I couldn’t have known that one day I would be all four ! » But he will be a soldier first.
In 1958, he was 21 years old and decided to do his military service in Algeria, where his older brother Guy, second lieutenant in the 1is parachute fighter regiment (RCP), was killed at the head of his section two years earlier. In his Vendée family, deeply Catholic and patriotic, the profession of arms is second nature…
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