French Foreign Legion in popular culture. The French Foreign Legion is commonly portrayed in literature as a refuge for the wronged, as well as scoundrels and fugitives from justice. Several versions of Beau Geste, for example, have exploited this theme to dramatic effect.Édith Piaf[edit]There is a French song originally created by Marie Dubas in 1. Piaf, called "Mon légionnaire", about a woman's longing for an embittered Legionnaire with whom she had a brief affair and who refused to tell her his name. The song was reprised by Serge Gainsbourg in the 1. Piaf. The new version of "Mon Légionnaire" was a hit on French dancefloors.

Another of Piaf's songs was "Le Fanion de la Légion" (The Flag of the Legion), describing the heroic defence by the garrison in a small Legion outpost attacked by Saharan tribes. Both songs were written by Raymond Asso, a Foreign Legion veteran who was Piaf's lover in the late 1. Marguerite Monnot. The Legion adopted still another Édith Piaf song as their own, "Non, je ne regrette rien" (No, I regret nothing), during the 1. Legion were accused of being implicated in a failed coup d'état during the Algerian War.[1] Today it is still a popular Legion "chant" sung when on parade, adapting it to their unique marching cadence of 8. Frank Sinatra performed a song called "French Foreign Legion" about joining up if a girl does not marry him.

The indie- rock band The Decemberists wrote a song called "The Legionnaire's Lament" on their 2. Castaways and Cutouts.

The French Foreign Legion is commonly portrayed in literature as a refuge for the wronged, as well as scoundrels and fugitives from justice. Several versions of Beau. The Clone Wars (22–19 BBY), also known as the Clone War and the Great Clone War, was the name.

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The song describes the homesickness of a French legionnaire on duty on the Algerian- Moroccan border in the early 1. Radiohead's song "Cuttooth", a b- side to 2.

Knives Out", features the lyric "I would lead the wall paper life/ or run away to the Foreign Legion."Biography and Autobiography[edit]Adrian Liddell Hart, son of British military theorist Basil Liddell Hart, wrote an account of his time with the Legion in Indochina in the 1. Strange Company (1. Rolf Steiner, wrote an autobiography, The Last Adventurer, of his military career. The first two stints of his career were in the Legion in Vietnam and Algeria. In the Foreign Legion by ex- legionnaire Edwin Rosen, published by Duckworth London (1. Frederic Martyn's memoirs, Life in the Legion: from a Soldier's Point of View (1. P. C. Wren’s fiction.

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Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by the American Maurice Magnus, published posthumously in 1. D. H. Lawrence and his literary executor Norman Douglas. Simon Murray wrote an account of his service in his 1. Legionnaire: The Real Life Story of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion. The book is notable for its descriptions of the brutal training of a Legionnaire, the Algerian War and the failed "Generals' putsch" against de Gaulle. Warrior- Adventurer and General (A Biography) by Croatian writer Nenad Ivanković is mainly about Ante Gotovina's service in the Legion during the 1.

British writer Tony Sloane wrote the autobiographical The Naked Soldier (2. Legion with the 2ème REP and 1. DBLE. Pedro Marangoni, the author of "A opção pela espada" served in the French Foreign Legion in 1. Gareth Cairns Diary of a Legionnaire when he served in the 2eme REP, where he served on various overseas missions over the following five years. Padraig O'Keeffe's biography Hidden Soldier mentions when he served as an Irish Legionnaire in Cambodia and Bosnia. Jaime Salazar's Legion of the Lost (2. Watch The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Download.

American citizen who joined the Legion in 1. America. A revised 2nd edition of his book was released in 2. Dominique Vandenberg's autobiography The Iron Circle talks in depth of the martial artist running away to the French Foreign Legion to become a 2. REP Paratrooper. (2. Milorad Ulemek wrote a partially biographical novel, Legionar, describing his early years in the Legion. Australian lawyer David Mason wrote the autobiographical "Marching With the Devil" (2. Legion during the 1.

France and Djibouti. J. R. Lawrence wrote My Camp: Life in the French Foreign Legion in 2. Legion in Afghanistan. In Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne enlists the help of a former Legionnaire and a new recruit who fled Tennessee for quadruple homicide.

Ouida's 1. 86. 7 Under Two Flags was probably the first English language novel about the French Foreign Legion and was filmed several times, most notably in 1. P. C. Wren's 1. 92. Beau Geste tells the story of three brothers who run away to the French Foreign Legion. His 1. 92. 6 sequel Beau Sabreur tells the story of the further adventures of the American friends from Beau Geste, Hank and Buddy. The third book "Beau Ideal" resolves the trilogy..

Good Gestes" and "Spanish Maine". P. C. Wren also wrote, 1.

The Wages of Virtue (possibly made into a film starring Gloria Swanson), and other novels about the Legion. In Biggles Foreign Legionnaire (1. W. E. John's Biggles series set in the '5. Ginger join the Legion as part of an undercover operation trying to unmask a gang of multi- national arms dealers who are instigating war in global conflict zones. The chronicle of Richard Halliburton's African flying adventure, The Flying Carpet, includes a description of the members of the Foreign Legion he befriends, plus several riveting anecdotes he hears from some of the older members. Blood Money is a thriller about a former French Foreign Legionnaire, who must save the world. It is written by ex- Legionnaire Azam Gill from Pakistan.

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In Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, a minor character named Kurt is introduced; Kurt had joined the French Foreign Legion in the absence of a German army after the First World War, but wounded himself to get out after the friend with whom he joined died. The French Foreign Legion was one of the Hungarian novelist Jenő Rejtő's favourite subjects. Notable novels are The Three Musketeers in Africa or The Hidden Legion. British publisher John Spencer & Co published 2. Foreign Legion Series" in the 1.

These were written under pseudonyms such as Bruce Fenton, W. H. Fear, Jud Cary and Paul Lafayette. In Ford Madox Ford's novel Some Do Not.., the first installment in his epic trilogy Parade's End, Christopher Tietjens reminisces about his pre- war desire to join the French Foreign Legion, should war break out on the continent (he didn't believe England would ever be involved). In Man on Fire, the main character Marcus Creasy and his friend Guido Arrelio were members of the French Foreign Legion before becoming mercenaries.

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