![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
![Tom Antonov on X: "They wear the leather apron and the axe in memory of the old regiments in charge of carrying out the sapping operations during sieges. The wearing of a Tom Antonov on X: "They wear the leather apron and the axe in memory of the old regiments in charge of carrying out the sapping operations during sieges. The wearing of a](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6AkSmXXIAIDpj5.jpg)
Tom Antonov on X: "They wear the leather apron and the axe in memory of the old regiments in charge of carrying out the sapping operations during sieges. The wearing of a
Why, when on parade, does a group of French Foreign Legionaires precede the main body of troups equipped with axes and wearing what appears to be an apron? - Quora
![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
![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://preview.redd.it/uheub0p2wvy61.jpg?auto=webp&s=ff3c08e49e5f245ff074920f14def0bb0db7eddf)