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I got this one fron Philippe. It appeared in the NRA Jo urnal and in John Glen’s book ‘Bisley Stories’.

Robert

The event took place on Bastille Day, 14th July 1981. That day,  I was in Robert Chombart’s car parked outside the entrance to ‘the marking way’ behind the Butts at Stickledown,  waiting our turn to mark.

‘To celebrate our National  Day, lets give them a bit of music’,said Robert, putting a cassette of military music to his cassette machine. ‘Lets play the Boudin one’, Isuggested. I must explain  to the British reader that ‘L’air du Bo udin’ (black pudding) is the well-known march of parade of the French Foreign Legion with a slow and slightly swinging characteristic step and dates from the　Napoleonic times.

Robert turned up the volume to the maximum and opened the car doors to let that martial music fill the air. A crowd of at least 10 markers were coming over towards the targets, walking briskly  when, dying with laughter, we saw them slowing down until, in about 20 seconds, all those good fellows had been reduced to a snail’s pace wjthout realizing by the beat of the ‘Boudin’s March’ and were swaying from left to right in the ‘Legionnaires’ fashion.

All of which proves that the British are capable of marching  in step with Napoleonic Army.

Tiens voila du boudin…

Voila du boudin…

Voila du boudin…

Pour les Alsaciens, les Suisses et les Lorrains…etc.