Under French law, unless there was a national crisis, the French Foreign Legion was not permitted to appear on French soil.
As a result, France's most battle-hardened force had always carried out missions overseas. In the 1960s, when countries in the CFA franc zone began declaring independence one after another, these foreign mercenaries played a crucial role in suppressing armed rebellions, though few outsiders knew what had truly happened at the time.
The Foreign Legion had a rule: its foreign mercenaries could refuse to fight against their countries of origin. Compared with soldiers from mainland France, when faced with a situation requiring force against most people in France, only the Foreign Legion was useful—and willing to get its hands dirty.
Would some politician, like Louis XVI, forbid Swiss mercenaries from firing on civilians?
Or, if civilians were shot, would it trigger even larger riots and international condemnation?
The average monthly income of police officers in France was below the average in France. Perhaps the cost of a single coat worn by some big shot was worth an entire month's salary for them.
No matter how capable a security company was, it could not open fire in Paris, France, like the police or military in France could. Without warning shots, enraged crowds carrying Molotov cocktails would set cars ablaze.
Oh, these filthy dregs of society—why did they love wrecking things so much? They could not stand seeing other people's success, yet refused to work hard themselves and envied those living well.
After entering a state of emergency, the president first needed to authorize curfews and roadblocks. These were not the kind of roadblocks where a taxpayer in the prime of his life, diligent and law-abiding, asked, "Why do I have to wait here so those blathering ministers can get to work