French Text An officer from the Polytechnique, gunner, Charles Dupont was assigned to the Intelligence Service after the Dreyfus affair. He performed several secret missions in Germany before taking the head of the 2nd office (intelligence) of the General Staff of the Army in 1913 and then the General Headquarters in August 1914 until 1917, passing through the great military impacts of the Western Front: the Marne (1914), Verdun (1916), the...