translate English to French: Although he finished first in his class at the armoured cavalry officer academy of Saumur, the military wanted to de-rank him because they did not want a "Communist" to become an officer.
C'est notamment le cas de Michel Poniatowski et Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber , tous deux fermement anti-gaullistes. Jacques Chirac se débarrasse rapidement du co-fondateur de L'Express sur la question des essais nucléaires.