The captain Pierre Sergent (1926 - 1992) was a French soldier and a chief of the secret armed Organization (OAS).

He begins his military career in the maquis at the 17 years age, then follows a career of officer in the Foreign legion after a passage to Saint-Cyr-Coëtquidan. At its exit of the ESM in 1949, it is affected with the 1st regiment foreign, in Saïda (Algeria). Lieutenant, it fights with the 1st foreign regiment parachutists during the Guerre of Indo-China (1951-1953), where it is seriously wounded, then as captain during the Guerre of Algeria within the same regiment (1958-1961), after having been affected with the 1st foreign regiment in 1956. After the failure of the putsch of Algiers in April 1961, it passes to the OAS of which he became the chief for the metropolis (OAS-subway).

During seven years, he escapes police research while he is condemned to death in absentia twice. He is finally amnestied after the events of May 1968.

Near to the solidaristic mediums, in particular of the Movement young revolution and Jean-Pierre Stirbois, it was elected in 1986 appointed the Eastern Pyrenees under the label of the National front, after a passage to the National center of independent and country the.

Pierre Sergent is the author of many books on the Foreign legion and the Guerre of Algeria.

Publications

• My skin at the end of my ideas , the roundtable, 1967
• the battle , the roundtable, 1968
• I do not regret anything , Fayard, 1972
• the Algerian misunderstanding , Fayard, 1974
• Lettre with the officers , Fayard, 1975
• the marshals of the Legion: the odyssey from 5th abroad , Beech, 1977
• Michel Debré, the bugle impudic , Régine Desforges, 1978
• the Legion jumps over Kolwezi , Presses of the city, 1978, ISBN 2258004268
• Camerone , Fayard, 1980
• 2nd R.E.P. , Presses of the City, 1984