Editing French Foreign Legion (section)

==Marching cadences and songs==
[[File:Foreign Legion Bastille Day 2013 Paris t102020.jpg|thumb|Because of its slower pace, the Foreign Legion is always the last unit marching in any parade]]
Also notable is the marching pace of the Foreign Legion. In comparison to the 116-step-per-minute pace of other French units, the Foreign Legion has an 88-step-per-minute marching speed. It is also referred to by Legionnaires as the "crawl". This can be seen at ceremonial parades and public displays attended by the Foreign Legion, particularly while parading in Paris on 14 July ([[Bastille Day Military Parade]]). Because of the impressively slow pace, the Foreign Legion is always the last unit marching in any parade. The Foreign Legion is normally accompanied by its own band, which traditionally plays the march of any one of the Foreign Legion's regiments, except that of the unit actually on parade. The regimental song of each unit and "[[Le Boudin]]" is sung by legionnaires standing at attention. Also, because the Foreign Legion must always stay together, it does not break formation into two when approaching the presidential grandstand, as other French military units do, in order to preserve the unity of the Legion.

Contrary to popular belief, the adoption of the Foreign Legion's slow marching speed was not due to a need to preserve energy and fluids during long marches under the hot Algerian sun. Its exact origins are unclear, but the official explanation is that although the pace regulation does not seem to have been instituted before 1945, it hails back to the slow marching pace of the [[Ancien Régime]], and its reintroduction was a "return to traditional roots".<ref name="Le Grand Livre des Insignes de la Légion Etrangère">Szecsko, p. 17</ref> This was in fact, the march step of the Foreign Legion's ancestor units – the ''Régiments Étrangers'' or Foreign Regiments of the ''Ancien Régime'' French Army, the ''Grande Armée''{{'}}s foreign units, and the pre-1831 foreign regiments.

===Marching songs===

===="''Le Boudin''"====
[[File:French Foreign Legion Music Band.jpg|right|thumb|255x255px|The Foreign Legion has its own [[military band]]]]

"''[[Le Boudin]]''"<ref name="youtube.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXoYaHPYxr0| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/WXoYaHPYxr0| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=Marche de la Légion / Le Boudin|last=TheMarches09|date=8 February 2010|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> is the marching song of the Foreign Legion.

====Other songs====
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* "''[[Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien]]''", [[1st Foreign Parachute Regiment]]
* "''Sous Le Ciel de Paris''", ''The Choir of the French Foreign Legion''
* "''Anne Marie du 3<sup>e</sup>''" REI (in German)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://3rei.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=54&idA=139&block=19&idA_SM=112&titre=le-chant-du-3rei|title=Chant du régiment|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185924/http://3rei.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=54&idA=139&block=19&idA_SM=112&titre=le-chant-du-3rei|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* "''Adieu, adieu''"
* "''Aux légionnaires''"
* "''Anne Marie du 2<sup>e</sup> REI''"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://2rei.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=148&idA=33&block=15&idA_SM=28&titre=le-chant-du-2eme-rei|title=Le chant du 2ème REI|work=legion-etrangere.com|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630190121/http://2rei.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=148&idA=33&block=15&idA_SM=28&titre=le-chant-du-2eme-rei|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "''{{ill|Adieu vieille Europe|fr|Adieu vieille Europe|vertical-align=sup}}''"
* "''Chant de l'Oignon''"
* "''Chant du quatrième escadron''"
* "''Chez nous au 3e''"
* "''C'est le 4''"
* "''Connaissez-vous ces hommes''"
* "''[[1st Foreign Parachute Regiment|Contre les Viêts]]''" (song of the [[13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion]] after having been the marching song adopted by the [[List of French paratrooper units|1st Foreign Parachute Regiment]]) 
* "''Cravate verte et Képi blanc''"
* "''Dans la brume, la rocaille''"
* "''Défilé du 3<sup>e</sup> REI''"
* "''C'était un Edelweiss''"
* "''Écho''"
* "''En Afrique''"
* "''En Algérie''" (1<sup>er</sup> RE)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=457|title=Les chants du 1er RE et des compagnies|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=3 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003103756/http://1re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=457|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "''Es steht eine Mühle''" (in German)
* "''Eugénie''"
* "''Les Képis Blancs''" (1<sup>e</sup> RE)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=458&block=11&titre=les-chants-du-1er-re-et-des-compagnies|title=Les chants du 1er RE et des compagnies: Les Képis Blancs|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=18 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918001010/http://1re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=458&block=11&titre=les-chants-du-1er-re-et-des-compagnies|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "''Honneur, Fidélité''"
* "''[[Ich hatt' einen Kameraden]]''" (in German)
* "''Il est un moulin''"
* "''J'avais un camarade''"
* "''Kameraden (in German)''"
* "''La colonne''" (1<sup>er</sup> REC)
* "''La Légion marche''" (2<sup>e</sup> REP)<ref name="auto2"/>
* "''La lune est claire''"
* "''Le Caïd''"
* "''{{ill|Le Chant Des Marais|fr|Chant des marais|vertical-align=sup}}''"
* "''Il y a des cailloux sur toutes les routes''"
* "''Le fanion de la Légion''"
* "''Le Soleil brille''"
* "''Le front haut et l'âme fière''" (5<sup>e</sup> RE)
* "''Légionnaire de l'Afrique''"
* "''{{ill|Massari Marie|fr|Sarie Marais|vertical-align=sup}}''"
* "''Monica''"
* "''Sous le Soleil brûlant d'Afrique''" (13<sup>e</sup> DBLE)
* "''Nous sommes tous des volontaires''" (1<sup>er</sup> RE)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=455|title=Les chants du 1er RE et des compagnies|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=3 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003152211/http://1re.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=455|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "''Nous sommes de la Légion''"
* "''La petite piste''"
* "''Pour faire un vrai légionnaire''"
* "''Premier chant du 1<sup>er</sup> REC''"
* "''Quand on an une fille dans l'cuir''"
* "''Rien n'empêche''" (2<sup>er</sup> REG)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://2reg.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=246&idA=20&block=15&idA_SM=0&titre=les-chants|title=Les chants du 2e REG et des compagnies|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=3 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003123815/http://2reg.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/info_seul.php?id=246&idA=20&block=15&idA_SM=0&titre=les-chants|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "''Sapeur, mineurs et bâtisseurs''" (6<sup>e</sup> REG)
* "''Soldats de la Légion étrangère''"
* "''Souvenirs qui passe''"
* "''Suzanna''"
* "''The Windmill''"
* "''Venu volontaire''"
* "''Véronica''"
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