WORLD EXCLUSIVE: (Translated from the French language): At the initiative of Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac, a career officer and head of the Place Armes website [ https://www.place-armes.fr/ ], some twenty French generals, a hundred or so senior officers and more than a thousand other military personnel have signed an appeal for a return to honour and duty within the political class of France. Valeurs actuelles publishes their letter the words of which describe the deep anguish felt by the military heads for their nation’s darkest hours.

By Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac | Published on 21 April 2021 at 7:00 am Updated on 22 April 2021 at 12:25 pm:

Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen of the government,
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Parliament: These are serious times, France is in peril, several mortal dangers threaten it. We who, even after retirement, remain soldiers of France, cannot, in the present circumstances, remain indifferent to the fate of our beautiful country.

Our tricolour flags are not just a piece of cloth, they symbolise the tradition, through the ages, of those who, whatever their skin colour or creed, have served France and given their lives for her. On these flags, we find in gold letters the words ‘Honneur et Patrie’. Now, our honour today lies in denouncing the disintegration that is affecting our country.

A deterioration which, through certain anti-racism, has only one aim: to create a malaise, even hatred between communities on our soil. Today, some speak of racialism, indigenous and de-colonial theories, but through these terms, it is the racial war that these hateful and fanatical supporters want.

They despise our country, its traditions, its culture, and want to see it dissolve by tearing away its past and its history. Thus they attack former military and civilian glories with statues, analysing centuries-old words.

This is a disintegration which, together with Islamism and the suburban hordes, is leading to the detachment of many parts of the nation and transforming them into territories subject to dogmas that are contrary to our constitution.

However, every Frenchman, whatever his belief or non-belief, is at home everywhere in France; there cannot and must not be any town or district where the laws of the Republic do not apply.
Delay, because hatred takes precedence over fraternity during demonstrations where the authorities use the forces of order as auxiliary agents and scapegoats in the face of French people in yellow waistcoats expressing their despair. This while infiltrated and hooded individuals ransack businesses and threaten these same forces of order. However, the latter is only applying the directives, sometimes contradictory, given by you, the rulers.

The dangers are growing; the violence is increasing day by day. Who would have predicted ten years ago that a teacher would one day be decapitated outside his school? We, the servants of the Nation, who have always been ready to put our skin in the game, as our military status demanded, cannot be passive spectators of such actions.

It is therefore imperative that those who lead our country find the courage to eradicate these dangers. To do this, it is often enough to apply without weakness the laws that already exist. Do not forget that, like us, a large majority of our fellow citizens are fed up with your wavering and guilty silences.

As Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, said: ‘When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere. ‘So, ladies and gentlemen, enough procrastination, the hour is serious, the work is colossal; do not waste time and know that we are ready to support the policies that will take into consideration the safeguarding of the nation.

On the other hand, if nothing is done, laxity will continue to spread inexorably in society, ultimately causing an explosion and the intervention of our active comrades in a perilous mission to protect our civilizational values and safeguard our compatriots on national territory.

We can see that it is no longer time to procrastinate, otherwise tomorrow civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and the dead, for which you will be responsible, will be counted in thousands.
The signatory generals: Lieutenant General (ER) Christian PIQUEMAL (Foreign Legion), Lieutenant General (2S) Gilles BARRIE (Infantry), Major General (2S) François GAUBERT former Military Governor of Lille, Major General (2S) Emmanuel de RICHOUFFTZ (Infantry), Major General (2S) Michel JOSLIN DE NORAY (Troupes de Marine), Brigadier General (2S) André COUSTOU (Infantry), Brigadier General (2S) Philippe DESROUSSEAUX de MEDRANO (Train), Air Brigadier General (2S) Antoine MARTINEZ (Air Force), Air Brigadier General (2S) Daniel GROSMAIRE (Air Force), Brigadier General (2S) Robert JEANNEROD (Cavalry), Brigadier General (2S) Pierre Dominique AIGUEPERSE (Infantry), Brigadier General (2S) Roland DUBOIS (Signals), Brigadier General (2S) Dominique DELAWARDE (Infantry), Brigadier General (2S) Jean Claude GROLIER (Artillery), Brigadier General (2S) Norbert de CACQUERAY (General Directorate of Armaments), Brigadier General (2S) Roger PRIGENT (ALAT), Brigadier General (2S) Alfred LEBRETON (CAT), Doctor General (2S) Guy DURAND (Army Health Service), Rear-Admiral (2S) Gérard BALASTRE (French Navy).

Marine Le Pen: ‘Generals, join me in the battle for France
Source: https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/marine-le-pen-messieurs-les-generaux-rejoignez-moi-dans-la-bataille-pour-la-france/

In response to the tribune signed by twenty generals, published Thursday on our site, who called for a ‘return of the honour of our leaders’ in the face of the rise of separatism, the president of the National Rally addresses an open letter to them, in which she shares their diagnosis and proposes, in response, that they join her in view of the next presidential election. By Marine Le Pen | Published on 23 April 2021 at 11:00 am.

Dear General Officers, Representatives of all armies and all specialities, you have signed an open letter ‘for a return of honour of our leaders’ [ https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/pour-un-retour-de-lhonneur-de-nos-gouvernants-20-generaux-appellent-macron-a-defendre-le-patriotisme/ ].
Your initiative, which is rare in the military establishment, testifies to the degree of concern you feel about the worrying deterioration of the situation in our country. The uncompromising but fair assessment you make and the force of the terms you use constitute a public challenge that, given your status as a signatory, no one can ignore.

 An exhortation is not enough to get the government out of its guilty habits. With the courage of those who have dedicated their lives to their country, you directly question our leaders, whose responsibility you legitimately target, calling on them to rediscover the lucidity to act and even, as you say, ‘the way of honour’.

As a citizen and as a politician, I subscribe to your analysis and share your grief. Like you, I believe that it is the duty of all French patriots, wherever they come from, to stand up for the recovery and even, let us say it, the salvation of the country. The difference that I allow myself is to think that an exhortation is not enough to get this failing power out of its guilty habits.

The very recent declarations of the President of the Republic on his project to ‘deconstruct the history of France’ [https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/video-nous-devons-deconstruire-notre-propre-histoire-macron-se-lache-a-la-television-americaine/], show us, in fact, that these damaging drifts do not come from a moment of madness but from a political direction driven by fundamentally corrupting ideological considerations. I invite you to join us to take part in the battle that is beginning.

The concerns that you courageously express cannot remain at the stage of expressing indignation, however powerful it may be. In a democracy, it requires the search for a political solution which must be concretised by a project of alternation which has vocation to be validated by the vote of the French. This is the object of my political approach and of my candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic with the objective of a government of National Union.

Many senior civil servants and personalities from civil society have already joined us. I invite you to join our action to take part in the battle that is beginning, which is certainly a political and peaceful battle, but which is above all the battle of France. ~ Marine Le Pen