Bagne de Tataouine
The bagne of Tataouine is old a military Bagne French open until in 1938, year of the abolition of the French bagnes, with Tataouine (southern of the Tunisia).
It is famous to accommodate, under particularly difficult conditions, condemned common Droit and soldiers punished for indiscipline. They then integrate the more known Bataillons of light infantry of Africa under the nickname of beats of Af. or of Merry . 2 explanations can be advanced relating to this last nickname: one, positive, develops a strong team spirit and distinguishes clicks to them which was particularly merry. The other, negative and the most spread, is ironical about the hard reputation soldiers inspiring terror around them.
These soldiers undergo there, in addition to a sun relentless, the weight of a double Hiérarchie: that of the soldiers and that semi-official of the Caïd S. Moreover, they are assigned to the monitoring of the always prompt tribes to be agitated.
Thus, the bagne has very bad reputation and its notoriety makes that it is in the beginning popular expressions such as to go in Tataouine , which mean outward journey to be lost at the end of the world, and Tataouine-the-Baths to evoke a scorned place and without interest.
Today, the site of the bagne is occupied by a barracks of the Tunisian Armée which can be observed at the top of a Colline since the road which crosses Tataouine.
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