When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.
He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.
In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.
When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.
For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.
He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.
He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.
🔴Assassinat de nos enfants, et nos aînés.
🔴 Partagez. Exigez des comptes…!!!
•Maëlys de Araujo, 8 ans – Enlevée lors d’un mariage, assassinée – Nordahl Lelandais (34 ans).
• Shaïna Hansye, 15 ans – Poignardée puis brûlée vive – Ex-petit ami (17 ans).
• Lola Daviet, 12 ans – Enlevée, violée, torturée, assassinée (corps dans malle) – Dahbia Benkired (24 ans).
• Louise, 11 ans (Épinay-sur-Orge) – Poignardée dans un bois – Owen L. (23 ans).
• Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, 19 ans – Violée et assassinée (Bois de Boulogne) – Taha O. (22 ans, récidiviste).
• Chloé, 14 ans (Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, 2026) – Poignardée de plusieurs coups de couteau sur le chemin de l’école, suspecté de viol – Homme de 23 ans (mis en examen pour assassinat et viols).
• Lyhanna, 11 ans (Gers) – Assassinée après disparition – Jérôme B. (41 ans, antécédents signalés).
•Thomas Perotto, 16 ans (Crépol, Drôme, 2023) – Poignardé mortellement lors d’un bal de village – Auteur du coup fatal non identifié publiquement parmi plusieurs suspects (groupe de jeunes).
• Enzo Parissot, 15 ans (La Haye-Malherbe, Eure, 2023) – Poignardé à mort (plusieurs coups, thorax) pour un « mauvais regard » – Jeune du même âge (15 ans, principal suspect).
• Matisse / Mathis, 15 ans (Châteauroux, 2024) – Poignardé de plusieurs coups (dont au cœur) après une altercation/rap battle – Adolescent (16 ans, nationalité afghane, sous contrôle judiciaire).
• Abass / Abbas, 16 ans (Paris 13e, devant lycée Rodin, 2024) – Poignardé à la tête lors d’une rixe entre bandes – Mineur suspecté (16 ans, mis en examen pour assassinat).
•Malo, 17 ans (Troyes, Aube, juin 2026) – Poignardé mortellement (abdomen et bras, règlement de comptes présumé) dans le centre-ville – Suspects interpellés (dont mineurs de 17 ans).
• Benoît Vacelet, 17 ans (Dax, Landes, mai 2025) – Poignardé mortellement (plusieurs coups au thorax) en marge de festivités – Suspect (16 ans, mis en examen pour assassinat).
• Matthias, ~23 ans (gare d’Angers, 2025) – Tué à coups de couteau et marteau après altercation – Groupe de 4 personnes (suspects).
🔴Assassinat de nos aînés.
•Josephs Moroni, 95 ans (Argenteuil, 2023) – Sexuellement agressée (viol/agression) à l’hôpital puis décédée – Samir B. (44 ans, patient avec profil psychopathique).
• Mme Ben Damardji, 93 ans (Argenteuil, 2023) – Sexuellement agressée à l’hôpital peu avant son décès – Samir B. (44 ans).
• Femme de 80 ans (Niort, 2025) – Violée et tuée à son domicile – Suspect afghan de 20 ans (écroué).
• Femme de 90 ans (Nice, janvier 2026) – Violée à son domicile par intrusion violente nocturne (plusieurs actes) et frappée – Suspect tunisien (29 ans, sous OQTF).
• Femme de 95 ans (Clichy-la-Garenne, 2026) – Violée – Suspect(s) dans une série d’agressions sur femmes âgées.
• Femme handicapée de 83 ans (La Courneuve, 2026) – Violée – Suspect(s) dans la même série récente d’agressions.
🗣️De nombreuses agressions sexuelles mortelles ou suivies de décès sur femmes âgées en Ehpad, domiciles ou hôpitaux (frappées, étouffées, violées), souvent moins relayer dans la presse, (les violences contre les seniors).
🔴 Scandales sexuels du périscolaire à Paris : nos enfants trahis.
• 78 animateurs suspendus depuis début 2026, dont 31 pour suspicions de violences sexuelles (46 suspensions en 2025, dont 20 sexuelles).
• Enquêtes du parquet dans plus de 100 établissements (84 maternelles, ~20 élémentaires, ~10 crèches).
• 16 personnes placées en garde à vue le 20 mai 2026 (école Saint-Dominique, épicentre avec dizaines de plaintes). Plusieurs mises en examen et écrouements.
• Victimes : Des dizaines d’enfants identifiés (au moins 20-40 pour certains dossiers ; ex. un animateur jugé pour faits sur 9 enfants). Nombre total probablement bien plus élevé.
🗣️Failles systémiques : recrutements laxistes, signalements ignorés, omerta.
Nos enfants confiés à des adultes censés les protéger. maintenant. Protégeons-les.
@Violette126649 Outre-mer, dans certains territoires comme la Guyane, la Polynésie,la Nouvelle Calédonie et d'autres( la liste est consultable dans la loi de 1905) la loi sur la laïcité ne s'applique pas. Il y a toutes sortes de religions dans ces territoires et de nombreux athés,sans problème .
@Villepin On le sait qu'ils sont français, nés en France , éduqués à l école française. C' est d'autant plus grave car cela démontre que nous avons un ennemi intérieur.
@MichelF29015597 Il n'y a pas que le coca. Les téléphones portables, les machines à l'hôpital pour certaines maladies graves contre le cancer par exemple,ce serait long à tout énumérer.Les juifs,c'est 27% des prix Nobel pour 0,2% de la population mondiale. Qu'elle assume son retour au moyen-âge .
@FredGaulois L'article 31 de la loi sur la laïcité puni ce genre de comportement par une amende et même de la prison. Si les fauteurs sont identifiés, je recommande fortement le dépôt de plainte.
@priscathevenot@GabrielAttal On dit " les femmes et les enfants d'abord" dans les cas de péril. Une nation qui laisse les plus fragiles ,femmes de tout âge,enfants, être massacrés,violés, est appelée à disparaître sous les coups de sa propre barbarie. C'est vous le problème.
@veguigui@MaliikSecurite Cela va sans doute faire hurler certains. En règle générale, il est interdit de ramener dans son pays des plantes ou insectes qui pourraient mette en péril la biodiversité locale. Il en va de même pour l'espèce humaine.
With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.
“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”
@FredGaulois Quand vous faîtes une pièce d'identité, on prélève vos empreintes. L'Etat a presque toutes les empreintes de la population. Comment ne peut-il pas traquer ce genre de problème. Mettre en place un programme qui vérifie empreintes et détenteur d'un CNI devrait être possible.
@FredGaulois Pourquoi ne pas créer une plate-forme où tout individu à qui on aurait volé la carte ou qui serait victime d'usurpation pourrait s'inscrire et y déposer sa photo. Cette plate-forme pourrait être consulté par tous les organismes notamment banques...