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French Foreign Legion in Syria (1995) 206: One evening Verlozzi returned looking even more pleased with himself than usual, and on being asked the cause of it announced that he had ‘got off’ with a colonel’s wife . French Foreign Legion in Syria (1995) 50: there were the usual ‘red lamp’ establishments where romance
could be purchased for a couple of francs [ibid.] 203: [T]he legionnaires were enthusiastic patrons of the red lamp, and a good deal of the barrack-room talk was taken up with frank discussions on the comparative charms of various girls . French Foreign Legion in Syria (1995) 43: The man who could not ride well had a very thin time. He was cursed and damned, and called every variety of pig and dog [Ibid.] 105: ‘I had a very thin time when I first went there—I was ostracized because I was a “nigger”’. French Foreign Legion in Syria (1995) 206: I lay gripping my rifle. At any rate, I would finish off a few more of the enemies of France before I handed in my ticket .