Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin Quotes
In future battles, these primitives, for whom life counts so little and whose young blood flows so ardently, as if eager to be shed, will certainly attain the old “French Fury” and will invigorate it if necessary.
While Mangin was disgustingly racist, many native soldiers from Senegal, Morocco and other French colonies were pleased that Mangin was not only advocating that they serve with the French Army, but the General was critical of the fighting spirt of the then contemporary Frenchmen and claimed that the “prmitives” would invigorate the French Army. Mangin’s view was adopted as policy and in the First World War, native colonial troops were an important component of the victorious French Army.
Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin, 1866–1925, French General, Arguing for allowing the non-whites from the French African Colonies to Fight in the French Army, La Force Noir, 1910
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