Rue du Colonel Feracci

At the age of 18, Jean André Feracci, a native of Corten, began a brilliant military career in the 28th Infantry Regiment (Paris region). In 1884, he joined the Saint-Maixent (Deux-Sèvres) Military Infantry School as a cadet. His first assignment as an officer was on March 31, 1885, to the 141st Infantry Regiment in Marseille. In view of his military experience, supplemented by his stay in Africa, his commanding officer immediately appointed him as the regiment's flag bearer. It was in his hometown that, in 1902, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour. But it was also in Corte that in 1909, Captain Feracci was seriously wounded in the knee during an exercise. His horse, panicked by the passage of a train on the viaduct located three kilometres north-east of Corte, got carried away and threw him into a precipice. In 1914, Major Feracci was assigned to the 296th Infantry Regiment which entered the war campaign in Alsace on August 12. On March 10, 1915, at the age of 52, father of nine, Knight of the Legion of Honour, holder of the First World War cross with a commendation in the Army Corps order, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-André Feracci, an energetic and courageous officer, fell gloriously on the Field of Honour at Cambrin (Pas de Calais), at the head of his regiment.