Back in the disco era, long before he became one of Canada’s top soldiers, Michel Maisonneuve was an exchange officer with a French regiment, based in Sedan, in the Ardennes.
The sister to his Valcartier-based armoured regiment, it was known, in French, as the 12th Hunters.
In those days — the late ’70s — the French had conscription: citizens were expected to serve a year.
