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Definition of French Foreign Legion
1. Noun. A former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France.
Lexicographical Neighbors of French Foreign Legion
Literary usage of French Foreign Legion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The New "Old Guard" of France By John Joseph Casey Of the French Foreign Legion The
... is one of the many Americans fighting in the French Foreign Legion. ..."
2. The World's Work Second War Manual: The Conduct of the War by Arthur Wilson Page (1914)
"The French Foreign Legion is said to have originated in the Scottish Archers of
Charles the Seventh of France, and from all the other nationalities employed ..."
3. French Foreign Policy from Fashoda to Serajevo (1898-1914) by Graham Henry Stuart (1920)
"S5 The French Foreign Legion seemed to be the object of particular hatred, and
the attacks directed against it were most venomous. ..."
4. Alsace-Lorraine Since 1870 by Barry Cerf (1919)
"... deserted home and family for ever and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion.
Germany did everything possible to prevent this. After 1900, in particular, ..."
5. Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly, to by Russell Anthony Kelly (1917)
"For several years prior to the present war, the Germans very bitterly attacked
the French Foreign Legion by articles in their newspapers and magazines, ..."
6. Who are the Huns?: The Law of Nations and Its Breakers by Ernst Müller (1915)
"... in Particular for the Foreign Legion: That mockery of all modern social reform,
the French Foreign Legion, is an institution which cries for reform at ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"The French Foreign Legion is composed of men of all nationalities and of ill
classes. Its head quarters is in Algiers, but the two regiments of which it ..."
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