title: Poste Maurice Cortier
text: # Poste Maurice Cortier
  
  Poste Maurice Cortier was a desert halt in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria, along the way from Algiers to French Sudan.
  
  It became popularly known as Bidon 5 because its sign board was an empty gas-can with the numeral 5 painted upon it; and "bidon" is French for "gas-can".
  
  