Patrick Chauvel : a living legend

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Trent
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“‘You look like you’re dead.’ Those are the opening words of Les pompes de Ricardo Jésus. Pierre Schoendeoerffer utters them upon seeing a photo of Patrick wounded in Cambodia in April 1974. Patrick wrote these lines as he took his first steps on crutches after taking ‘a bullet in the left ankle, a present of the Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz’ in 1980… “