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===Code of honour=== The "Legionnaire's Code of Honour"<ref name="auto3">{{citation |url=http://www.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=92&idA=134&block=6&idA_SM=112&titre=le-code-d-honneur |work=Official Website of General Command of Foreign Legion (COMLE) |title= Code d'honneur du Légionnaire}}</ref><ref name="4re.legion-etrangere.com">{{citation |url=http://4re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=44&idA=20&block=17&idA_SM=0&titre=code-d-honneur |title=4th Foreign Regiment, Code d'honneur du Légionnaire |access-date=5 August 2015 |archive-date=28 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928161838/http://4re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=44&idA=20&block=17&idA_SM=0&titre=code-d-honneur |url-status=dead }}</ref> is the Legion's [[wikt:creed|creed]], recited in French only.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/CIGquKXtxgw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190129015127/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGquKXtxgw&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGquKXtxgw| title = Remise Képi Blanc | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 5 December 2010 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/e8z3pCTw1ag Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190129013825/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8z3pCTw1ag&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8z3pCTw1ag| title = Code d'honneur du légionnaire | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 13 March 2013 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> The Code of Honour was adopted in the 1980s.<ref name="auto3"/> {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto;" |- ! !! ''Code d'honneur du légionnaire'' !! Legionnaire's Code of Honour |- |Art. 1|| ''Légionnaire, tu es un volontaire, servant la France avec honneur et fidélité.'' || Legionnaire, you are a volunteer serving France with honour and loyalty. |- |Art. 2 || ''Chaque légionnaire est ton frère d'armes, quelle que soit sa nationalité, sa race ou sa religion. Tu lui manifestes toujours la solidarité étroite qui doit unir les membres d'une même famille.'' || Each legionnaire is your brother in arms whatever his nationality, his race or his religion might be. You show him the same close solidarity that links the members of the same family. |- |Art. 3 || ''Respectueux des traditions, attaché à tes chefs, la discipline et la camaraderie sont ta force, le courage et la loyauté tes vertus.'' || Respect for traditions, devotion to your leaders, discipline and comradeship are your strengths, courage and loyalty your virtues. |- |Art. 4 || ''Fier de ton état de légionnaire, tu le montres dans ta tenue toujours élégante, ton comportement toujours digne mais modeste, ton casernement toujours net.'' || Proud of your status as legionnaire, you display this in your always impeccable uniform, your always dignified but modest behaviour, and your clean living quarters. |- |Art. 5 || ''Soldat d'élite, tu t'entraînes avec rigueur, tu entretiens ton arme comme ton bien le plus précieux, tu as le souci constant de ta forme physique.''|| An elite soldier, you train rigorously, you maintain your weapon as your most precious possession, and you take constant care of your physical form. |- |Art. 6 || ''La mission est sacrée, tu l'exécutes jusqu'au bout et, s'il le faut, en opérations, au péril de ta vie.'' || The mission is sacred, you carry it out until the end and, if necessary in the field, at the risk of your life. |- |Art. 7 || ''Au combat, tu agis sans passion et sans haine, tu respectes les ennemis vaincus, tu n'abandonnes jamais ni tes morts, ni tes blessés, ni tes armes.''|| In combat, you act without passion and without hate, you respect defeated enemies, and you never abandon your dead, your wounded, or your arms. |} [[File:ORANGE Camerone2010.jpg|thumb|Commemoration of the [[Battle of Camarón]] by the [[1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment]] at the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] Theatre of [[Orange, Vaucluse|Orange]]]] [[File:Drapeaux 1RE et 2REI Paris 2003.jpg|thumb|right|Regimental flags of the [[1st Foreign Regiment]] and [[2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment|2nd Regiments]] in Paris, 2003<ref name="youtube.com"/>]]
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