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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 ...
Robert Vincent Eley was appointed Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur in November 2015 in recognition of his acknowledged military engagement and steadfast involvement in the Liberation of France during the Second World War. Robert M Gardner (awarded December 2015) for "Invaluable contribution to the liberation of France ...
The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French [1] and foreign [2] nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France.
Lance Corporal Joseph Novak, WWII Veteran. Royal Canadian Army Service Corps served in France, Belgium, The Netherlands. Awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2021. [96] Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon. [97] Pascal Poirier, author, lawyer and Canada's longest-serving senator, he was honored as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur ...
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.
portrait of Robert II de La Marck. In 1518, Robert left French service after his company of lances was disbanded due to pillaging. [4] Robert led pillaging expeditions, launched from the castle of Logne, into the Low Countries which belonged to Emperor Charles V. [5] In 1521, he placed Virton under siege, thus instigating the Four Years War. [2]
The music was accordingly directed by Wilhem [ca; fr] who composed, from 16 imposed measures (French: mesures imposes) on French regiments, the march of the Foreign Legion, the Le Boudin. [ 2 ] At the end of 1887, a string Instruments orchestra was created.
Born in Sedan, Ardennes, in 1491, Robert was the son of Robert II de la Marck; Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and Fleuranges, [1] and Catherine de Croÿ. [2]A fondness for military exercises displayed itself in his earliest years, and at the age of ten, Robert was sent to the court of Louis XII, and placed in charge of the count of Angoulême, afterwards King Francis I.