Talk:Le Boudin

Why/how to expand

1) Le Boudin is an emplematic piece, and deserves as much attention as the "Shores of Tripoli" or Garryowen as a famous and important military march. 2) I have seen several websites that have the French text and an English translation. I shall look them up directly. 3) The Leigon has a very fascinating history, and to expand on it, its origins, etc, can only increase the depth of the French History project, as well as being an important force during WWI and WWII (although arguably, during WWII, the Leigon is more important for its contributions to post-war conditions in France, then the war itself.

Cheers V. Joe 17:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually "tire au cul" means lazy not crappy rifleman

202.82.183.10 02:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
You are right. "Tireur au Cul" ou "Tire au Cul" is a slang word that designates a lazy soldier. Literary, it means "shoot in your ass", meaning that a lazy soldier is slow and therefore always at the rear and risks to shoot in your back. (sorry for my poor english - a french contributor)

"tireur au cul" is certainly the familiar version for "tireur au flanc". Paris By Night 01:32, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Based on the equivalent page on French Wikipedia, I have tried to improve on the translation of the song, to make it sound more like military slang… https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Boudin_(marche_de_la_L%C3%A9gion ˜˜˜˜

The following is meant to follow the (military) spirit, the verse, and the syllables more closely:

Chorus:

Hey, here is some wurst, here is some wurst, here is some wurst

For the Alsatian, Swiss, and Lorrain troops,

For the Belgians, ain't no more,

For the Belgians, ain't no more,

Those yella SOBs.

For the Belgians, ain't no more,

For the Belgians, ain't no more,

Those yella SOBs.

1st verse:

We are crafty,

We are rogues,

We ain't no average men.

We often sink into a funk,

We are Legionnaires.

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I changed it again (!) (I have to stop, or I will never quit)

here's a meal o' wurst …

They're a bunch o' SOBs

Plus: why doesn't the four tilde signature seem to work (?!?!) ˜˜˜˜

Date of the song

When did this become the song of the Legion? If I had to make an educated guesstimate I would say sometime between 1870-1918/9, due to the references to the Alsace and Lorraine, which were not part of France during that period.99.240.142.65 (talk) 03:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Sonnerie

what does "1.^e sonnerie" and "2.^e sonnerie" in the french article mean? Is there a special sound or ring at that point? -- Cherubino 21:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I am also puzzled by this. The French for "sonnet" is "sonnet"; a sonnet is a poem of 14 lines. "Sonnerie" is a ringing or, more recently, a ringtone. And a couplet (as the name implies) comprises two (rhyming) lines. These are quatrains and quintains.

Hengistmate (talk) 12:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Ban on Belgian Enlistment?

Leoplold II did not ban Belgians from enlisting in the FFL. He forbade Belgian subjects already in the Legion from fighting for France in the Franco-Prussian War, lest it be seen as a breach of Belgium's neutrality and provide Prussia and the German States with an opportunity to embroil Belgium in the War. And the monarch is not King or Queen of Belgium but King or Queen of the Belgians.

Hengistmate (talk) 11:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Reversions July 2012.

Have reverted the edit for the following reason: In the line Au Tonkin, la Légion immortelle À Tuyen-Quang illustra notre drapeau the word "illustra" is past historic, and the subject of the verb is "la Légion". Therefore the meaning of the line (with the word order amended to make it clearer) is, "At the battle of Tuyen-Quang in Tonkin, the Legion did honour to our flag." The alternative translation offered does not make sense. Also, recordings of the song show that it follows the pattern chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus, not that suggested by the edit. Hengistmate (talk) 13:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

this song isnt correctly trancelated in englisch, le boudin isnt a sausage to eat but its a blanket in a roll, it makes part of the rugzak.

so there where not enough of those sousages (blankets) and the belgians had to share one blanket with two soldiers, so they were laying tommy against the back of the other, thats what thy ment with 'ce sont des tireurs aux cul' means they shoot in the bottom, due to there way of sleeping under one blanket.

so please , the translation istnt correct, and even not polite to the belgians.

my ex father in law was a legionere, and told me this story. long time ago.

greetings from belgium ;-)

alain — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.181.7.215 (talk) 19:25, 8 November 2012 (UTC)