![BayerischeStaatsoper on X: "Yes, those axe-swinging guys are for real: They are based on parade uniforms of the French Foreign Legion pioneers #BSOsemiramide https://t.co/v9frZ2qFbm" / X BayerischeStaatsoper on X: "Yes, those axe-swinging guys are for real: They are based on parade uniforms of the French Foreign Legion pioneers #BSOsemiramide https://t.co/v9frZ2qFbm" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5nXJePXMAItP4G.jpg)
BayerischeStaatsoper on X: "Yes, those axe-swinging guys are for real: They are based on parade uniforms of the French Foreign Legion pioneers #BSOsemiramide https://t.co/v9frZ2qFbm" / X
![Pioneers of the Foreign Legion, with beard, ax, and traditional leather apron 451 x 300 : r/MilitaryPorn Pioneers of the Foreign Legion, with beard, ax, and traditional leather apron 451 x 300 : r/MilitaryPorn](https://i.redd.it/imnwm6n2cub81.jpg)
Pioneers of the Foreign Legion, with beard, ax, and traditional leather apron 451 x 300 : r/MilitaryPorn
![Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangère à Puyloubier Master corporal Sapper,3rd REI,parade dressing w/axe and white apron Stock Photo - Alamy Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangère à Puyloubier Master corporal Sapper,3rd REI,parade dressing w/axe and white apron Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/RE267J/institution-des-invalides-de-la-legion-etrangre-puyloubier-master-corporal-sapper3rd-reiparade-dressing-waxe-and-white-apron-RE267J.jpg)
Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangère à Puyloubier Master corporal Sapper,3rd REI,parade dressing w/axe and white apron Stock Photo - Alamy
![Paris. France. July 14, 2012. Pioneers Of The French Foreign Legion During The Parade On The Champs Elysees In Paris. Stock Photo, Picture and Royalty Free Image. Image 77203290. Paris. France. July 14, 2012. Pioneers Of The French Foreign Legion During The Parade On The Champs Elysees In Paris. Stock Photo, Picture and Royalty Free Image. Image 77203290.](https://previews.123rf.com/images/supervector/supervector1705/supervector170500002/77203290-paris-france-july-14-2012-pioneers-of-the-french-foreign-legion-during-the-parade-on-the-champs.jpg)
Paris. France. July 14, 2012. Pioneers Of The French Foreign Legion During The Parade On The Champs Elysees In Paris. Stock Photo, Picture and Royalty Free Image. Image 77203290.
![French Foreign Legion perform during the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris, on July 14, 2019. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM Stock Photo - Alamy French Foreign Legion perform during the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris, on July 14, 2019. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2DDJY9R/french-foreign-legion-perform-during-the-bastille-day-military-parade-down-the-champs-elyses-avenue-in-paris-on-july-14-2019-photo-by-julie-sebadelhaabacapresscom-2DDJY9R.jpg)
French Foreign Legion perform during the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris, on July 14, 2019. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM Stock Photo - Alamy
Unseen Waterloo- The Conflict Revisited - A beard and an axe. French sappers were beasts of men, hand chosen from the ranks of Grenadiers. They carried an axe and wore leather aprons.
![French Foreign Legion Pioneers are a traditional company of the FFL and they wear buffalo leather aprons and axes, as they used to before. Were they butchers before, why were aprons needed, French Foreign Legion Pioneers are a traditional company of the FFL and they wear buffalo leather aprons and axes, as they used to before. Were they butchers before, why were aprons needed,](https://i.redd.it/uheub0p2wvy61.jpg)