It depicts honestly but with humour the often brutal life of a houseboy in the service of a French commandant.
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono, also a Cameroonian novelist, wrote Une Vie de boy (1956; "A Life of a Boy"; Eng. trans. Houseboy), the story of a boy, Toundi, who leaves his rural home and goes to the town of Dangan, where he becomes the servant for a French commandant and his wife.
Shouting out the orders to the cooks who yell back, "Oui," "Oui," a rising shout as the lunch hour continues, an auditory salute to a French culinary commandant who is only 35.
The Italian flotilla leader Mirabello was accompanied by the French destroyers Commandant Rivière, Bisson, and Cimeterre.
After a period of deteriorating relations, however, Natchez leaders were provoked to revolt when the French colonial commandant, Sieur de Chépart, demanded land from a Natchez village for his own plantation near Fort Rosalie.
Goya's 1798 portrait of the French ambassador-turned-commandant Ferdinand Guillemardet betrays a personal admiration.
But the person chosen to perform the christening — Alice Wilmerding, granddaughter of Benjamin Tracy, the Navy secretary — preferred French Champagne, and the commandant did not insist.
Some of the men, like Joseph Guilcher, were enrolled in a unit of 177 French marines led by Commandant Philippe Kieffer, informally known as the Kieffer Commando, that landed on Sword Beach in Normandy on June 6 , 1944
French Air Forces under the command of Commandant des Forces (Commander of Forces) Marcel Têtu Aeriennes de Cooperation du Front Nord-Est Ardennes Cooperation Front North Eastt, or FACNE) rarely supported the British efforts despite substantial reinforcements.
Bienville remained as commandant of the French colony until 1712 despite numerous complaints against his rule.
In 1854 Napoleon III granted the request of local merchants for a greater French military presence and appointed Commandant Louis-Léon-César Faidherbe governor.
