Once passed in Chine she joined Shanghai

Kabardie-Balkaria, the name may have been invented by Hergé. Tear of the Russian empire, the country is wedged between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on the northern slope of the greater Caucasus, at the foot of Mount Elbrouz. Legend has it that Zeus had chained Prometheus, the fire thief. Women are beautiful, fierce men. It is at the heart of one of the families most respected Kabardie, the Hagondokoff, that was born in a family of Muslim officers aligned to the tsar, the small Gali. It will have a childhood magic between the wild beauty of the Caucasus where it rises horses kabardin rustic and the sumptuous feasts of the Petersburg aristocracy.

The revolution is sweeping a line bloody this magical world. While his father eventually reach white, Gali and her baby, Nicolas, fleeing from the East, towards Manchuria. An epic journey of several months during which the young woman will face the worst dangers, with incredible courage deception with the Bolsheviks, defying a hostile nature.

Once passed in Chine, she joined Shanghai. Emeritus sport, she does not fear the company of men that fall under its spell burst. It is found, later, dummy in Chanel, darling of the tout it seduces all that she intrigues. It goes up his own fashion house, leads big train, at least until the great depression. It was primarily the concern to be safe, she and his. It is the grappling hook on the comte Ladislas of Luart, handsome man from of a sarthoise family, amateur hunting in Fox and automobile Carburetors. It has succeeded, not without evil, to marry at a price of some arrangements with civil status. Divorced, it will do is go to widow! But, finally, she love it, its count, which is éperdu love, even if it the is not much.

The following is Countess, the Luart Leïla. And not barefoot. It will not keep both feet in the same tap-dance. While the Spain war is raging, it was the idea of mobile care unit which will be able to approach closer to the fighting; It will select the Franco camp (reference which will disappear later his CV). From the beginning of the second world war, she hand North Africa first, then continues in Italy, in Alsace, Germany finally. She is tireless, indomitable; She bend generals, is adulated by the troupe, intersects with de Gaulle and June, who loves him, receives medals and citations. In Algeria, at the age of fifty-eight, she creates centres of high range for the leave rest; they will be benefit from 108,000.

During the campaign of Alsace, she was made brigadier-chef of honour of the 1st foreign Cavalry Regiment, a vested distinction usually to only marshals. The is "Godmother" of 1 REC, Regiment who will miraculously saved after the insurgency of the generals in which he took part; the Countess was perhaps not for nothing.

Ah! "his" Legionnaires, as she loves them; them, the Revere, call it "mother", "Godmother" or the "fairy". It must be said that the fairy is prodigal; She spends a fortune to improve the ordinary of his protégés, fights for the rules, benefits, ease punishment; It is true also, missing a Christmas nor a Camarón, the celebration of the Legion. On the evening of 14 July, she takes his world at the brasserie Lowenbrau fields (officers, they were often entitled to champagne and caviar from Russian cabarets).

It also knows to listen to these men to the often painful past, buried beneath the anonymity of the Legion, when, miserable night, they come crying on his shoulder. A woman flamboyant and passionate, nylon as decided, well anchored to the right but close to the simple people, which makes justice this beautiful biography of Guillemette de Sairigné, herself daughter of a hero of the free France. Companion of the liberation, it has been mown in Indochina to thirty-four years - the age had the grand father of Leila, died for the Czar in the Romanian war of 1877-, while he commanded a regiment of the Legion. Good blood cannot lie.