How the French feed 3000 people without a snail in sight

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login If an army marches on its stomach, as Napoleon is credited with saying, the modern-day French navy makes sure its sailors march in style. And with 3000 French sailors bobbing off the northern Australian coast on warships including the mammoth Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, the supply vessel Jacques Chevallier plays a key role in ensuring they stay fed and fuelled almost 14,000 kilometres away from its home port of Toulon.

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