 Though duly considered a part of the Piaf Canon and continually included in newly printed collections of her songs, it never achieved the popularity of "Mon légionnaire".Ironically, the Foreign Legion itself did not conspicuously take up the song (as Asso may have hoped).Rather, the Legionnaires adopted as their own a different Edith Piaf song - "Non, je ne regrette rien" (I regret nothing) - whose words in themselves have nothing to do with the Legion but came to express their defiance when accused of atrocities and involvement in a failed coup d'etat during the Algerian War (see May 1958 crisis and Algiers putsch).