Epilogue
At nine o’clock on Friday morning, 17th May 1968, Second Lieutenant Dimitri Dorides - or more accurately Dimitrios Doridès - of the Train des Equipages was walking nervously back and forth in front of the rudimentary headquarters he had set up, just before dawn, in the square opposite the railway station at Fontainebleau-Avon.
A little earlier, tired of waiting, he had risen from his folding chair, leaving a road map of the Île-de-France open on the collapsible table and his coffee cooling in its aluminium cup. He was in command of a platoon and had been entrusted with the transport of reservists who were due to arrive soon from Paris. They were supposed to be taking part in a three-day combined training programme at the Gorges de Franchard, on the western side of the forest, wh
