René Doumic [SEP] place of death
René Doumic
René Doumic (7 March 1860, in Paris – 2 December 1937), French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the Collège Stanislas de Paris.
Life.
Doumic attended the Lycée Condorcet and the École Normale, both in Paris.
He was a contributor to "Le Moniteur Universel", the "Journal des Débats" and the "Revue bleue", but was best known as the independent
Patria Nostra" (The Legion is our Fatherland) are the crucible identity of the Foreign Legion. It is not known exactly when and how was born and adopted the motto "Legio Patria Nostra". It is possible that it could be approached to the concept of the Legion as a ""go to place"" which surfaced following 1871, when the Legion welcomed a great deal of those from Alsace and Lorraine, whom became stateless due to the annexation of their regions by Germany. On this subject, René Doumic