AET : Acronym of Former child reared by the army . Former student of a military College, military College or of a preparatory military academy of the French Army .

A child reared by the army designated at the base a child whose father was Sous-officier (called non-commissioned officer at the time) or soldier and who followed the troop, in company of his family. Contrary to the children of officers who had schools to form them with soldiering, these children reared by the army did not have any means of having military formation other but that to engage as a soldier.

May 1st 1766, an ordinance of Louis XV improves the fate of these children by stipulating that in each company or Escadron of each regiment of the royal army, two budget headings from now on will be reserved for wire of non-commissioned officers or soldiers. Bonaparte, 1st Consul, in a decree promulgated in 1800, devotes between-others, officially name " Child of troupe".

In 1884, the preparatory military academies are created, thus removing the stations of children reared by the army in the regiments, then, in 1974, these preparatory military academies are transformed into military Colleges before reaching co-education and becoming into 1982 of the military colleges.

Lists of the preparatory military academies having existed

In metropolis

With the Meeting

In French Algeria

  • Hammam-Righa (1942-1945)
  • Miliana (1946-1951)
  • Kolea (1951-1963)

In French Indo-China

AET DALAT.L' École of the Eurasian Children reared by the army of Dalat (EETED) was created in Dalat (Annam) in 1939, with for currency " To inform itself for servir". Following the widening of recruitment, the Eurasian word was removed, the acronym becoming EETD. In 1954, the school was transferred to the Cape Saint-Jacob (Cochinchine), then repatriated in France in February 1956. It took its districts initially in Fréjus (VAr) then settled in Autun (Saône-et-Loire) the same year, with the Changarnier appendix. Its pupils were dispersed the following years in various military academies of the metropolis. Today, more than one half-century after their arrival in France, the AET-DALAT gathered within Friendly the purpose of which is to support the meeting again, notammant in Vogüé (Ardeche), and to continue to keep alive their history.

http://www.aet-dalat.net/

In French Black Africa

from 1956 with the independence of the country

Military colleges and French similar organizations still in activity

External bonds

  • Official site of the Association of the AET

  • Official site of Friendly of the AET-DALAT
  • Site of the AET of Autun
  • Directory of the pupils of military establishments of teaching
  • Site deprived on Louis HENRI (1935-1983), AET Dalat (Promotion 1952 " Placid Lucien"), survivor of Diên Biên Phu (Dalat 1954), Patent of N°80.937 Parachutist, 8 {{E}} Battalion of parachutists of shock (1953), 1 {{er}} RPIMA of 1954 to 1972, Monitor military parachutist (Mount-of-Marsan, Thiès (Senegal), Bayonne, Pau, Quimper, Issoire, Saint-Maixent)

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