See images of the site of Saint Jean near Corte, Corsica, where a disciplinary platoon of the Foreign Legion, the Foreign Legion Trial Platoon (Section d’Epreuve de la Légion Etrangère, SELE) was based until the late 1970s.
New Home of Legionnaire in Auriol
A new building for the Home of Legionnaire (La Maison du légionnaire) was built in Auriol. The new building was named after Roux de Bezieux, a former legionnaire and a main donor. An inaugural ceremony took place on March 31, 2015.
French Foreign Legion Operations – March 2015
The French Foreign Legion participates in operations outside of France, throughout the world. View the official list of its temporary deployments of March 2015.
1er RE: Foreign Legion 1944-1945 Exhibition
The Foreign Legion Museum will organize a temporary exhibition called The Legion during the Victory (La Légion dans la Victoire). The exhibition is dedicated to the legionnaires and Foreign Legion’s units participating in the liberation of France in 1944-1945. It opens to the public on April 15 and continues on view through August 30, 2015.
Video: Foreign Legion and its influence
Today, the Foreign Legion published a nice French documentary about the art within the Legion and how the Legion had (and still has) an influence on artists – painters, poets, novelists, singers etc.
Foreign Legion patrolling in Paris
After the recent attacks in Paris, the French government decided to deploy another hundreds of soldiers to the capital to boost security. In Paris, there had already been around 1,000 military personnel since the end of December as part of Vigipirate, France’s national security alert system. Since January 11, around 1,350 French soldiers have been patrolling in the streets. The members of the Foreign Legion are among these troops: legionnaires and even the reservists (non-legionnaires) serving within the Legion.
French Foreign Legion Operations – December 2014
French Foreign Legion units participate in operations outside of France, throughout the world. See the list of their deployment in December 2014.
French Foreign Legion Operations – October 2014
French Foreign Legion units participating in operations outside of France. See the list of their location in the world in October 2014.
Foreign Legion for the first time in Peru
Last month, the French Foreign Legion appeared for the first time in Peru (South America). On 29 July 2014, a detachment composed of legionnaires (mostly Senior corporals) from the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI) of the Foreign Legion, a regiment based in South America as well, participated in a large military ceremony conducted by the Peruvian Army in Lima, the capital of Peru.
French Foreign Legion Operations – July 2014
Mali, Central African Republic, French Guiana, New Caledonia near Australia… See the locations of units of the French Foreign Legion participating in operations outside of France, in July 2014.
French firemen applauding the legionnaires in Paris
On July 14, 2014, the French firemen (sapeurs-pompiers) of the Northern Defence and Security Zone (Zone de défense et de sécurité Nord) of northern France, participating for the first time in the Bastille Day Parade, met the legionnaires in a street of Paris and cheered them with a “standing ovation”.
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