ABSTRACT
The Coëtquidan Military Academy in Brittany teaches and trains, on a 20 square mile camp, all future officers of the French land forces, both regular and reserve. Coëtquidan consists of two major units, the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr and the Ecole Militaire Interarmes (there is a third, smaller and more recent unit, the Ecole Militaire du Corps Technique et Administratif, whose very name describes its function). At any one time there are about one thousand future officers under training and each year 3,000 more go on training courses elsewhere.
