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First France had to repair and restock its armed forces, then transform them, he told soldiers at Mont-de-Marsan airbase in south-west France.

"France has and will have armies ready for the challenges of the century," said Macron, speaking at the Mont-de-Marsan air base in southwestern France.

Macron is laying out the plan in a new year’s speech to civilian and military staff at the Mont-de-Marsan air base in southern France.

The Montpellier forward said he and Saint-Étienne forward Lois Diony played in Mont-de-Marsan in southwestern France on May 23.

Laborde said the lure of playing again after weeks in confinement proved too strong for him and Diony, who was born in Mont-de-Marsan and played with Laborde on Bordeaux’s youth teams.