The railing from the Legion grave at Camarone can now be found at the village of Puyloubier near Aix-en-Provence.
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Though the song is set in the Sahara, Asso was likely influenced by the Battle of Camarón (1867), during the failed French attempt to prop up the regime of the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico - a major founding myth familiar to anyone who served in the Legion.