Editing Republican Guard (Laeral) (section)

==Legacy==
The exploits of the Republican Guard, particularly lionized during Bloody Summer and Great War propaganda, have become a fertile source of inspiration for television, film, comics, and other media. Jerome Cordier's 1956 novel ''Ma Vie dans le Garde Républicain'' (My Life in the Republican Guard) spurred a surge of follow-up novels and films, of which 1964's ''L'Homme de Garde'' (The Guardsman) is the most well-known and acclaimed. Fictional Laeralian intelligence agent [[Pierre Vidal]], the star of a series of books and films, is canonically a former Guardsman.

In 1971, the Laeralian news journal ''Revue Place de Capucins'' reported that numerous veterans of the Republican Guard's Second Regiment had illegally retained their weapons after leaving the military, implicating two Republican Guard veterans in the 1971 murder of police officer Yannick Fabre and suspected drug-dealers Xavier Le Roux and Yvan Etienne in Marcieux, Sarene. Culprits Jean-Camille Hsu and Fai Hsiang-lin, both former tankers who had served together during the [[Great War]] and members of the [[Rén Self-Defense League]], were sentenced to life in prison; their case was dramatized in film and television. 

Veterans of disbanded Republican Guard units became a significant flow of recruits for the [[Rén Self-Defense League]], more so than the Littoral Assault Regiment of marines which was disbanded at the same time. 

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