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    The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère, also known simply as la Légion, "the Legion") is an elite corps of the French Army created to allow...
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  • the Légion d'Honneur Alberto Girard, Officier of the Légion d'Honneur Aníbal Milhais, Soldier in World War 1 was awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur...
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  • Légion Code, article 16. Les étrangers qui se seront signalés par les services qu’ils ont rendus à la France ou aux causes qu’elle soutient, Légion Code...
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  • Légion Code, article 16. Les étrangers qui se seront signalés par les services qu’ils ont rendus à la France ou aux causes qu’elle soutient, Légion Code...
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    Peter J. Ortiz (category American male film actors)
    Legion, the U.S. Marines and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), operating behind enemy lines several times. Ortiz also acted in Hollywood films after...
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    Alain Delon (category French male film actors)
    Retrieved 6 October 2024. "Décès d'Alain Delon : l'hommage de la pesse étrangère". lejdd.fr (in French). 19 August 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024. "" Merci...
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  • René Mercier (category French film score composers)
    at IMDb Interprétation de Verdun ! On ne passe pas! by Jules Wolf (1878-1955) Adieu vieille Europe by the Légion étrangère Portals: music France opera...
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    Blaise Cendrars (category Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion)
    Malraux, the Minister of Culture, awarded him the title of Commander of the Légion d'honneur for his wartime service. 1961, Cendrars was awarded the Paris...
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    Jean-Paul Sartre (category Legion of Honour refusals)
    an essay published in the June 1949 edition of the journal Politique étrangère, Sartre wrote: If we want French civilization to survive, it must be fitted...
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    French Indochina (category 1953 disestablishments in Cambodia)
    Philadelphia 1983, pp. 34–36; Nogaro, B. / Weil, Lucien: La main d'ouvre étrangère et coloniale pendant la guerre, New Haven, CT 1926, pp. 32–35: 242,000...
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    Cole Porter (category American film score composers)
    "French Foreign Legion Official web site". Legion-etrangere.com. July 13, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016. Salazar, Jaime. Legion of the Lost Archived...
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    research in ionized gases 1980 : Médaille étrangère by French Acoustical Society 1992 : Officier de la Légion d'honneur awarded by François Mitterrand...
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    missionary Artus de Lionne of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (Missions étrangères de Paris, abbreviated MEP) was appointed as the first apostolic vicar...
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    Dalida (redirect from Dalida (film))
    spoken word by Alain Delon. Initially an actress, she made her debut in the film A Glass and a Cigarette by Niazi Mustapha in 1955. A year later, having signed...
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    under Colonel Monclar—including the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (14th Battalion Légion Etrangère) and the 3rd Battalion de Marche (from Chad)—fought...
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    Africa were undertaken by the again renamed troupes de Marine and the Légion étrangère which were the only units mainly or entirely composed of "engaged"...
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    important operation that involved French forces until 1942 and led the Légion étrangère into battle in the Norwegian and later African campaigns against Erwin...
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    Maxime Weygand (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    support the resistance. He also arrested the foreign volunteers of the Légion Etrangère, foreign refugees who were in France legally but were without employment...
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    they wanted to avoid over-burdening the bureaucracy of the order of the Légion d'Honneur in Paris. The ribbon of the order during this period was a shade...
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    in Washington, DC. In 1940, the Vichy government dismissed him from the Légion d'honneur order and revoked his French citizenship (it was reinstated after...
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    Éric Neuhoff (category French film critics)
    plateau (de cinéma), L'Herne 2015: Dictionnaire chic de la littérature étrangère, Écriture 2016: Deux ou trois leçons de snobisme, Écriture 2017: Costa...
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  • repatriation service known as the Service de Rapatriement des Legionnaires Étrangères. The organization would convince Foreign Legionnaires to desert, then...
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    Nationales, 2016. ISBN 9782821868120 "La répression de la propagande étrangère", in Le Temps, June 24, 1939, p. 8; "Perquisitions dans les milieux antisémites"...
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    his involvement in the conflict, Bertrand-Bocandé was accepted into the Légion d'honneur and was given a land concession. Bertrand-Bocandé left the island...
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  • Ionna Paul Chanson, Lafayette et Napoléon Albert Chatelle, Napoléon et la Légion d'Honneur Dufourg, Chamborant 2e Hussards René Dumesnil Sœur Marie-Henri...
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    Retrieved 19 November 2019. Zaïmova, R.; Henrat, Ph. (1999). Affaires étrangères. Correspondance reçue du consulat de Constantinople (1668-1708). Inventaire...
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