Traditions
's Day naval troops:
- It is celebrated to mark the anniversary of the battles of Bazeilles. This village was abandoned and taken over four times on orders, 31 August and 1 September 1870.
, And the Name of God, long live the colonial
- The Marines and the patron saint Bigor have God himself. This war cry ends the private ceremonies that are part of the lives of regiments. Its origin is a thanksgiving of the Reverend Father Charles de Foucauld, missionary, seeing happen to his aid the colonial units a day when he was in trouble with a local tribe.
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“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
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