Student leader Lagaillarde refused a para career as lacking civil courage
Evidence
Lagaillarde himself had returned to study law at Algiers University the previous autumn, having completed his military service as a sous-lieutenant with the paras. This had taken him to Suez and through the Battle of Algiers, and the redoubtable Colonel Trinquier had been sufficiently impressed to invite him to stay on, which Lagaillarde had refused with the contemptuous rebuff: “The paras have every physical courage, but no civil courage!” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 848
Categorization
- XREF: Lagaillarde’s para background and 13 May role feed directly into the reader’s tracking of Algerian power struggles.