BERTRAND “The Frog” CADART

IF BERTRAND CADART had been a little less annoying, I would not be writing this now. The musical tastes of the Pacific islands would not be what they are, Mad Max would have been a different film, and Bertrand would almost certainly not have been awarded the Chevalier de L’ordre National du Mérite, an order reserved for those with distinguished military or civil achievements who are not French citizens and therefore not normally entitled to the Legion of Honour. Talk about irony.

I wonder if his commanding officer in New Caledonia, where Bertrand served as a French Marine back in the ‘70s, was still alive to see that Knighthood being awarded. It was this officer who made sure that Bertrand was in the brig for insubordination or something like it when his unit was shipped back to France, leaving him stranded in the Pacific when he’d done his time. Never one