{"id":109565,"date":"2017-12-09T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:25","slug":"french-foreign-legion-established-1831-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/french-foreign-legion-established-1831-3\/","title":{"rendered":"French Foreign Legion established, 1831"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\">In  July 1830, King Charles X of France signed into law a series of decrees  known as the July Ordinances in order to re-establish an absolute  monarchy to curtail an increasingly radical elected government. The  ordinances suspended the freedom of the press, dissolved the elected  legislature and disenfranchised the commercial bourgeoisie. Within three  days a popular insurrection had removed Charles from the throne.  Eventually Louis-Phillipe, the duc d&#8217;Orl\u00e9ans, took the throne as a  constitutional monarch having established his egalitarian credentials  during the earlier French Revolution. Under the new constitution, only  French nationals could serve in the army. Nevertheless, there were many  foreigners still in France: those attracted by the promise of the  earlier revolutions and former foreign soldier&#8217;s in Napoleon&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Grande Arm\u00e9e<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>On  10th March 1831, King Louis-Phillipe established the French Foreign  Legion to enable these foreigners to fight to achieve France&#8217;s colonial  ambitions in Algeria, which had proved to be an unpopular posting with  French soldiers. The Legion remained outside the regular French army,  thus circumventing the constitutional ban on foreign soldiers, although  French citizens &#8211; especially those considered to be disruptive  influences &#8211; were also encouraged to join.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later the  Foreign Legion took part in their first actions on European soil in  support of Isabella II in the First Carlist War. Over the following  decades they also served in Italy and Mexico. During the Franco-Prussian  War (1870-71), the authorities waived the rule that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">l\u00e9gionnaires<\/span> could not serve within Metropolitan France because of shortages of  experienced soldiers. As well as serving in various colonial campaigns, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">l\u00e9gionnaires<\/span> fought in both world wars and continue to see action today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 1830, King Charles X of France signed into law a series of decrees known as the July Ordinances in order to re-establish an absolute monarchy to curtail an increasingly radical elected government. The ordinances suspended the freedom of the press, dissolved the elected legislature and disenfranchised the commercial bourgeoisie. Within three days a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}