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The Music of the Foreign Legion (French: Musique de la Légion étrangère, MLE), formerly known as the Principal Music of the Foreign Legion (French: Musique principale de la Légion étrangère) is a Military band of the French Foreign Legion. [1] French or Foreign, musicians or not, they all volunteer for the Legion and receive, first, basic ...
The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère, also known simply as la Légion, "the Legion") is a corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. [8] The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialties, namely infantry , cavalry , engineers , and airborne troops . [ 9 ]
On Bastille Day in 2012, the band had the honor to perform on the Champs-Élysées alongside the French Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) during the annual military parade. This was the second time that the band has done this, with the first time being in 2005. [6]
Piaf dedicated her recording of the song to the Foreign Legion. [2] At the time of the recording, France was engaged in a military conflict, the Algerian War (1954–1962), and the 1st REP ( 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment )—which backed the failed 1961 putsch against president Charles de Gaulle and the civilian leadership of Algeria—adopted ...
"French Foreign Legion" is a popular song.The music was written by Guy Wood, the lyrics by Aaron Schroeder.The song was published in 1958.It is best known in a version recorded by Frank Sinatra on 29 Dec 1958, released as a single and which appears on the albums All The Way and early UK stereo releases of Come Fly with Me.
Today the instrument is prominent in the marching bands of the German Bundeswehr, the French Foreign Legion, the Russian Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of Chile, the Armed Forces of Bolivia, the Swedish Armed Forces and in Ottoman military bands. Some folk music features similar instruments based on a wooden staff with jingling attachments.
The French Foreign Legion Music Band performed before the marchpast began. During the pre-parade segment, two French Army tanks from the Armoured Cavalry Arm dating from the Second World War were presented before the dignitaries, in remembrance of de Gaulle's career in the army during that war, as a regimental commander before assuming his ...
The Saumur International Festival of Military Bands (French: Festival international de musiques militaires de Saumur) is a bi-annual event organized in the French city of Saumur by the Standing Committee of City Celebrations. The festival acts as a military tattoo, bringing military bands from the French Armed Forces and foreign