The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic
rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed
champion, General Hubert Lyautey. An aura of mystery, romance, and
danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps
of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically
grueling training in harsh climates, the legion fought in French
wars from Mexico to Madagascar, Southeast Asia to North Africa. To
this day, despite its reputation for being assigned the riskiest
missions in the roughest terrain, the mystique of the legion
continues to attract men from every corner of the world. In At the
Edge of the World, historian Jean-Vincent Blanchard follows the
legion's rise to fame during the nineteenth century--focusing on
its campaigns in Indochina and especially in Africa--when the corps
played a central role in expanding and protecting the French
Empire. As France struggled to be a power capable of rivaling the
British, the figure of the legionnaire--deadly, self-sacrificing,
uncompromisingly efficient--came to represent the might and morale
that would secure a greater, stronger nation. Drawing from rare,
archival memoirs and testimonies of legionnaires from the period
and tracing the fascinating career of Hubert Lyautey, France's
first resident-general in Morocco and a hero to many a legionnaire,
At the Edge of the World chronicles the Foreign Legion at the
height of its renown, when the corps and its archetypically
handsome, moody, and marginalized recruits became both the symbols
of a triumphant colonialism and the stuff of legend.
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