“Who knows if the stranger who sleeps under the immense arch, Mixing his shadowy glory with the splendours of the past, Is not this foreigner who has become a son of France, Not by blood received but by blood shed”. This 65-minute documentary film portrays the legionnaires, from their training in Aubagne and Castelnaudary, to operational missions in Guyana and Afghanistan. It also analyzes the “Legion system”, which is based on a particular structural organization, but also on a set of values, which welds recruits by nature heterogeneous into a homogeneous body, and which is recognized in its motto: Legio Patria Nostra. Author: Philippe Bodet
Foreign Legion: second chance recruits – YouTube
