Origins of the French Foreign Legion

The Origins of the French Foreign Legion (French: ) and early years of the French Foreign Legion (French: ) are resumed to that of an Army Corps part of the French Army (French: Corps de l'Armée de Terre Française).

The Origins of the French Foreign Legion (French: Origines de la Légion étrangère) are unmatched. None of the French Army Corps ever aroused so much interrogation, mystique and myth such as the French Foreign Legion. Uncopiable today, the French Foreign Legion was just another foreign formation among so many others that had already served France.

The Legion was left in Spain by Louis Philippe I, before being recreated by the latter during an occasion. The Foreign Legion was deeply rooted in combats in Algeria (French: ), while becoming each following day more stronger to become an elite unit.

The principal specification of the French Foreign Legion is that the Legion is constituted of foreigners. Well before the creation of a specific military formation, France, as well many other countries, has always recruited foreigners to fill the ranks of their contingents, or for the purpose resolve of political or strategic challenges. The French Foreign Legion distinguishes from all, due to the fact that all recruits are volunteers, while other formed foreign regiments were constituted of constraint personnel within enrollment, for instance, in regards to foreign regiments formed of prisoners of war (not the case of the 1831 Legion).

Before the Restoration (French: ), the First French Empire (French: ) and even before the Revolution (French: ), the Monarchy (French: ) had a long tradition of enrolling the service of foreigners.

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