TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JORDANE BERTRAND Jean-Pierre Caule, 76, member of the Historical Society of Arcachon and Pays de Buch, shows postcards of the military camp of Courneau on June 16, 2016 in his home in Teste-de-Buch. The Senegalese Tirailleurs were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army recruited from Senegal. In April 1916, French military authorities had set a camp in Teste-de-Buch to acclimate colonial troops to European weather. Nearly 70.000 tirailleurs between April 1916 and September 1917 will pass through the 400 huts of the camp. / AFP PHOTO / GEORGES GOBETGEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images