Timbuctoo

The meeting on the Parisian boulevards between a negro and an officer is an opportunity for the latter to tell how the two men were known during the Franco -Prussian War of 1870 and tell two stories about this extraordinary man . He was a lieutenant and commanded a besieged citadel, a disparate band made ​​of remnants of the army which eleven African sharpshooters , the largest of them , the most respected was a man with an unpronounceable name that was quick to nickname Timbuktoo.