Lazare ponticelli max gallo biography
End of an eraLazare Ponticelli7 December - 12 March Wednesday 12th March marked the end of an era in France with the death of her last surviving soldier from the First World War. Following the death in January of Louis de Cazenave (the last Frenchman to have fought in the war), M Ponticelli who was France's last Foreign Legionnaire to have fought, became a figure of significance.