Is it fair to make use of a poor devil's misfortunes, or the fact that he has got into trouble with the authorities of his native land, in this way for national purposes?
The answer to these questions is not difficult.
In later years especially, the French Government has made a clean sweep of many French institutions that seemed to be incompatible with the fair fame of France. One can be quite sure that it will in course of time be recognised that the Foreign Legion must be done away with.
One is only tempted to ask: How long will it last?
Quousque tandem…?
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Footnotes
[ [1] The Foreign Legion and the French army in general make a distinction between first-class privates and second-class privates. The first-class private has the grade of a lance-corporal.
[ [2] This curious expression of the Foreign Legion is, of course, an imitation of the Moorish "fantasia."