The Code of the Legion

Image courtesy of Col. L B Lambert

1. Legionnaire, you are a volunteer serving France faithfully and with honor.

2. Every legionnaire is your brother-at-arms, irrespective of his nationality, race or creed. You will demonstrate this by an unwavering and straightforward solidarity which must always bind together members of the same family.

3. Respect of the Legion's traditions, honoring your superiors, discipline and cameradery are your strength, courage and loyalty your virtues.

4. Proud of your status as that of a legionnaire, you will display this pride, by your turnout, always impeccable, your behaviour, ever worthy, though modest, your living-quarters, always tidy.

5. As an elite soldier, you will train vigorously, you will maintain your weapon as if it were your most precious possession, you will keep your body in the peak of condition, always fit.

6. A mission once given to you becomes sacred to you, you will accomplish it to the end, and at all cost.

7. In combat, you will act without relish of your task, or hate. You will respect the vanquished enemy and will never abandon neither your wounded nor your dead, nor will you under any cicumstances surrender your arms.