Yes, the French Foreign Legion has an online gift shop! (Found while looking for their official magazine, Kepi blanc. Recent editor’s note: “LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND”).
- Cliquez ici!
Delightful gift ideas abound, after the jump.
You’ll have to sign up for a five-year hitch if you want to change your name and avoid paying child support, but you can, for €6, purchase the official wine of the legion: Esprit de Corps Rouge. Honor those who are “sons of France not by blood received but by blood spilled”! Actually, there are several Légion étrangère wines to choose from (and quite a bit of rosé for such a macho lot). And, in another section all on its lonesome, sparkling wine.
- This label disturbs me greatly.
And for all that wine, you will need <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=537&catID=10
“>wine glasses. And fussy wine tools.
The Foreign Legion has gifts for everyone on your list! For that creepy uncle who has never been able to find <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=242&catID=10
“>a pipe commensurate with his creepiness! For your bolo-tie-wearin’ cousin Tex! (In French: “cravate américane“—love it!) For soccer fans!
Miss the simple, wholesome days of Gulf War I? Buy the Desert Storm <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=583&catID=6
“>T-shirt! And don’t forget a “<a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=412&catID=6
“>sweet shirt” for Dad! (Ah, foreigners. Some don’t know English very well!) These three belts (<a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=589&catID=10
“>1, <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=393&catID=10
“>2, <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=394&catID=10
“>3) are pretty snazzy, actually. (Hint, hint.)
CD of Foreign Legion songs! And songbook! A fine selection of ceramics!
And there are some small, possibly vaguely racist gnomes (lo-res, and it’s a heterogenous volunteer force, and it’s impossible to tell with the French), in <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=403&catID=16
“>porcelain and <a href=”http://www.legion-boutique.com/produits_info.php?pID=401&catID=16
“>metal.
Finally, a tiny monument to the dead, for €80:
Happy shopping!
I am SO getting the Foreign Legion hand towels. Thank you!!!
How about the creche inside a ceramic foreign legion hat? Nothing says Christmas like baby Jesus in a military cap.
Awesome!
Side note: did we ever figure out who this Zeugma character is?
WHO R U?
My god that is grotesque!
What a bunch of assholes. This is up there with the ALAMO in poor taste.
Oh and a note to the Legion (regarding that wine bottle): I went to Vietnam earlier this year. Ho Chi Minh is still there.
And you’re not.
i once had an affair with a man who left the country to join the french foreign legion, and i am delighted that something so very Snoopy-esque happened in my life. it ups my eccentric auntie cred by one million.
@3,4 For now, I’m sticking by my promise to reveal my identity to Gus and Gus alone, should he (he?) ever care to find out and be willing to keep the secret to him(?)self.
Oh, Zeugma, though I am immensely pleased, immensely, that you’d be willing, and would be thrilled to be told, I must sheepishly admit I have never been able to keep even one secret safe for anyone in my life.
Really, it’s my worst thing. When friends ask if they can tell me something confidentially, I have to remember to say no even though I’m always DYING to say yes.
Zeugma,
Beau Geste! Merci.
I’ll take a scarf.
“What a bunch of assholes. This is up there with the ALAMO in poor taste.
Oh and a note to the Legion (regarding that wine bottle): I went to Vietnam earlier this year. Ho Chi Minh is still there.
And you’re not. “
Look at this picture from 1914
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while in your country german prisoners could eat but not blacks. piss off to another stupid american. we dont dwell on race like you do, if you act french you are french.
Joyeux Noël