Glass-and-Sand

Futile musings of an old ghost

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  • The Legacy of Captain Le Guen and His Tuareg Guide 182

    The Legacy of Captain Le Guen and His Tuareg Guide 182

    Inheritance Captain Le Guen was a Muslim, a faith he had inherited from his mother, who, as a young child, had been rescued by the Franj from her burning village in the Aurès, during that war. He had been born in Qimper in Brittany, where Le Guen père, an officer in the Navy, had wanted to respect…