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Answer for the clue "PC Wren's French Foreign Legion novel ", 10 letters:
beau geste

Word definitions for beau geste in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gracious (but usually meaningless) gesture

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A gracious gesture, noble in form but often futile or meaningless in substance.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Beau Geste (1926) is a silent film , based on the novel Beau Geste by P. C. Wren . This version starred Ronald Colman as the title character.

Usage examples of beau geste.

Chirfa was nearly a hundred and fifty kilometres north of Seguedine and consisted of a Tuareg camp and one deserted Foreign Legion fortress which might have stood in for Fort Zinderneuf in Beau Geste but for one thing - there was an anchor carved above the main gate.