 An enquiry requested by the Ministry of Colonies was closed on December 1, 1902, claiming that Voulet and Chanoine had been driven mad by the dreadful heat, the ""soudanite aiguë"".After a long period of oblivion, the memory of the expedition was revived in 1976 by the writer Jacques-Francis Rolland in his "Le Grand Captaine", honoured with the Prix des Maisons de la Presse.The book is centered on the figure of Voulet, seen as a titanic individual, reckless and unsubmissive, bloody for reasons of strategy.