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

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Beau Geste is an adventure novel by P. C. Wren , which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. While written in 1924 ...

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.

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.