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Legio Patria Nostra (in French La Légion est notre Patrie, in English The Legion is our Fatherland) is the Latin motto of the Foreign Legion. [80] The adoption of the Foreign Legion as a new "Fatherland" does not imply the repudiation by the legionnaire of his original nationality.
Le Boudin" (French pronunciation: [lə budɛ̃]), officially "Marche de la Légion Étrangère" (English "March of the Foreign Legion"), is the official march of the Foreign Legion. "Le Boudin" is a reference to boudin, a type of blood sausage or black pudding. "Le boudin" colloquially meant the gear (rolled up in a blanket) that used to be ...
The Foreign Legion Command (French: Commandement de la Légion Étrangère, (COMLE)) (official) is the Command of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. [3] [4]The Legion is led by a French general, a Legion officer (French: Officier de Légion) [1] who is usually a general who spent his entire career in Legion units.
legio patria nostra: The Legion is our fatherland: Motto of the French Foreign Legion: legi, intellexi, et condemnavi: I read, understood, and condemned. legis plenitudo charitas: charity (love) is the fulfilment of the law: Motto of Ratcliffe College, UK and of the Rosmini College, NZ legitime: lawfully
Le Boudin refers to the perfect roll-up of the tents placed in the combat bags and which was voluntarily called "Boudin" by Legionaries. [2] It was a little after the departure of the Foreign Regiment to Mexico that Wilhem, the Director of Music then, composed that March which became the official Regimental March of the Foreign Legion.
The mottos Honneur et Fidélité ("Honour and Fidelity") and Legio Patria Nostra (The Legion is our Fatherland) are the crucible identity of the Foreign Legion. [1] It is not known exactly when and how was born and adopted the motto Legio Patria Nostra. [1]
The defence of Tuyên Quang holds a place second only to the Battle of Camerone in the roll of battle honours of the Foreign Legion, and is commemorated in the first verse of Le Boudin, the Legion's celebrated marching song: Au Tonkin, la Légion immortelle à Tuyen-Quan illustra notre drapeau (In Tonkin, the immortal Legion covered our flag ...
This version, unlike the Hollywood movies, stays true to the book, in that the three young brothers join the French Foreign Legion, are later commanded by Sergeant Major Lejaune (not Markov, as in one of the Hollywood versions), and this TV adaptation contains the scene from the book where the surrounded legionnaires defiantly sing Le Boudin ...