Category Archives: Art & Illustration

7th Day of Christmas: 7 Legion Pin-ups

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Jack Wagner

Here are seven Foreign Legion pin-up girls created by Legion artist extraordinaire Evguenii Ponomarev.  If the illustration style looks familiar it’s because the highly prolific artist has been a regular painter of military and particularly Foreign Legion subjects for over … Continue reading →

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10th Day of Christmas: 10 Pulp Illustrations

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Jack Wagner

Here are 10 pulp illustrations featuring the Foreign Legion.  They are mostly from the men’s adventure magazines of the 1950’s and 60’s and most became cover art for various titles.  The bonus picture above was from Adventure Magazine but I … Continue reading →

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Foreign Legion Coloring Pages

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Jack Wagner

I’m sure everyone has seen those adult coloring books at your department store checkout lanes or book kiosks.  I’m not talking about “adult” type of books with boobs but those coloring books designed for adults (or older children) to work … Continue reading →

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Some Benigni

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Jack Wagner

I found these color uniform prints recently at the Pritzker Military Museum and Library.  The artist is Pierre Benigni whose work on the Foreign Legion usually appears as black and white illustrations.  Many of his drawings appeared on the covers … Continue reading →

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Foreign Legion Recruitment Posters

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Jack Wagner

Here are some images depicting about 21 Foreign Legion posters.  Not all of them are official recruitment posters but most of the known ones used by the Legion are included.  I found out that each poster had a print run … Continue reading →

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French Saharan Adventures (Le Petit Journal 6)

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Jack Wagner

Here are some more color covers; this time from Le Petit Journal illustré which was the weekly illustrated supplement to the daily newspaper Le Petit Journal.  These depict various scenes from the French colonial experience in the Sahara.  Some of these, … Continue reading →

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French Colonial Adventures (La Petit Parisian 3)

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Jack Wagner

Here are some more pictures from the journal La Petit Parisian that depict various scenes from the French colonial outposts in Africa and Indochina.  Most of these are from 1889 to 1912 and were found on Galica.  I played around … Continue reading →

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Vendetta in the Desert

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Jack Wagner

I was not sure if this story should be posted under fiction or fact.  It is a bit far fetched and was written by the imaginative Geoffrey Bocca (who also wrote a nonfiction work on the Foreign Legion titled La … Continue reading →

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Some Satire

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Jack Wagner

— La France sera fière de vous, caporal…votre nom? — Chè nè gombrends bas. — France will be proud of you, corporal … your name? — I do not understand (with thick accent). The French have a long tradition of satire.  … Continue reading →

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Hi-Res Uniform Prints Part 4

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Jack Wagner

Here is an additional set of uniform prints from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.  These were all painted by French artist and illustrator Maurice Toussaint (September 1882 – December 1974).  Toussaint gained a solid reputation for his expertise in military … Continue reading →

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