![Foreign legionnaires marching in Algeria. Postcard dating from 1905.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/legion-titel-300x225.jpg)
The Foreign Legion
The Foreign Legion was established in 1831. Since then the French elite troop has lured thousands of Swiss, including figures from the arenas of culture and politics.
![A Swiss regiment in action. Painting by Karl Jauslin, 1887.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schweizerregiment-272x300.jpg)
![Uniform of the Foreign Legionnaires, 1852.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/uniform-1852-272x300.jpg)
![Letter relating to a court judgment against a Foreign Legionnaire, 1950.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/urteil-222x300.jpg)
![Foreign legionnaires attack, Bir Hakeim, 1942.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/legionare-300x297.jpg)
![Portrait of Federal Councillor Ulrich Ochsenbein in uniform, around 1850.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ochsenbein-219x300.jpg)
![Friedrich Glauser in the psychiatric clinic in Münsingen (Canton of Bern), 1931.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/glauser-211x300.jpg)
TV documentary about the French Foreign Legion. YouTube
The Foreign Legion was established in 1831. Since then the French elite troop has lured thousands of Swiss, including figures from the arenas of culture and politics.