The Foreign Legion

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Foreign_Legion

GPTKB entity

Statements (93)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instance_of	gptkb:military_unit
gptkbp:combat_role	infantry, engineering, logistics
gptkbp:commander	General Marc Conruyt
gptkbp:country	gptkb:France
gptkbp:current_use	approximately 7,000 personnel
gptkbp:founded	1831
gptkbp:has_units	gptkb:1st_Foreign_Parachute_Regiment
gptkbp:headquarters	Aubagne
gptkbp:historical_role	colonial conflicts
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	The Foreign Legion
gptkbp:known_for	elite status
gptkbp:language	gptkb:French
gptkbp:motto	gptkb:Legio_Patria_Nostra
gptkbp:notable_battle	gptkb:Battle_of_Camerone
gptkbp:notable_member	gptkb:Benoît_Magimel gptkb:Blaise_Cendrars gptkb:Georges_Clemenceau gptkb:Rudyard_Kipling gptkb:Luc_Dardenne gptkb:Emmanuelle_Béart gptkb:François_Truffaut gptkb:Olivier_Assayas gptkb:Gustave_Flaubert gptkb:Marina_Foïs gptkb:Charlotte_Gainsbourg gptkb:Jean-Claude_Van_Damme gptkb:Jean-Pierre_Dardenne gptkb:Cécile_de_France gptkb:Claude_Chabrol gptkb:Léa_Seydoux gptkb:Adèle_Haenel gptkb:Arnaud_Desplechin gptkb:Charles_de_Gaulle_Sr. gptkb:Juliette_Binoche gptkb:Victor_Hugo gptkb:Laurent_Cantet gptkb:Audrey_Tautou gptkb:Catherine_Deneuve gptkb:Henri_Matisse gptkb:Isabelle_Huppert gptkb:Jean-Luc_Godard gptkb:Louis_de_Funès gptkb:Marcel_Duchamp gptkb:Marcel_Proust gptkb:Simone_de_Beauvoir gptkb:Fanny_Ardant gptkb:John_Paul_II gptkb:Paul_Valéry gptkb:Philippe_Garrel gptkb:Camille_Cottin gptkb:Philippe_Lioret gptkb:Céline_Sciamma gptkb:Claude_Monet gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway gptkb:Gérard_Depardieu gptkb:Jacques_Demy gptkb:Jacques_Rivette gptkb:Paul_Cézanne gptkb:Albert_Camus gptkb:Edgar_Degas gptkb:Marion_Cotillard gptkb:Nicolas_Roeg gptkb:Élodie_Bouchez gptkb:Alain_Resnais gptkb:Émile_Zola gptkb:André_Gide gptkb:Henri_Rousseau gptkb:Jean-Paul_Sartre gptkb:Clotilde_Courau gptkb:Anaïs_Demoustier gptkb:Jacques_Brel gptkb:Jules_César gptkb:Antoine_de_Saint-Exupéry gptkb:Cédric_Klapisch gptkb:Louis_Malle gptkb:Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec gptkb:Jean-Pierre_Melville gptkb:Lou_de_Laâge gptkb:Sophie_Marceau gptkb:Benoît_Jacquot gptkb:Agnès_Varda gptkb:Léos_Carax gptkb:Melanie_Thierry
gptkbp:part_of	gptkb:French_Army
gptkbp:recruitment	foreign nationals
gptkbp:scope	global
gptkbp:symbol	Eagle and Globe
gptkbp:tradition	gptkb:military_history
gptkbp:training_programs	Camp de Castelnau
gptkbp:type	gptkb:infantry
gptkbp:uniform	green beret
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Rusev
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4