Paul Rollet

military official

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French Foreign Legion

  • Foreign Legion, French
    In French Foreign Legion: History

    The legion’s first inspector general, Paul Rollet, who had commanded the RMLE in the last year of the war, sought to secure the legion’s place in the public imagination and in the French army by reviving pre-1914 “traditions,” beginning with the uniform. Legionnaires in the 19th century, particularly those in…

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