French Foreign Legion and the tattoo. Are legionnaires tattooed? Are you allowed to have tattoos when you are joining the French Foreign Legion? What is the French Foreign Legion’s tattoo policy? Tattoos are a long tradition within the Foreign Legion. In France, around 1900, only legionnaires, French soldiers from BILA African battalions (nicknamed the Bat’d’Af), … Continue reading Foreign Legion Tattoos and Tattoo Policy