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    the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ]), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour...
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  • JSTOR 4311838. "Commandeur Légion D'honneur Siassi" [Commander Legion of Honor Siassi] (PDF). Grande chancellerie de l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur (in French). 16...
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  • the Légion d'Honneur by country List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by decade List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the...
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    France. It houses the Musée de la Légion d'honneur ("Museum of the Legion of Honour") and is the seat of the Légion d'honneur, the highest French order of...
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    the Légion d'honneur. Access is still by hereditary right. It is impossible not to make a link between the Maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur and...
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    The Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie (French for "National museum of the Legion of Honour and of orders of chivalry")...
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    Sophie Marceau (category Legion of Honour refusals)
    2015, it was revealed that she had refused the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur). She was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second...
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    The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère) is an elite corps of the French Army that consists of several specialties: infantry, cavalry, engineers...
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  • The Legion of Honour (French: Légion d'honneur) is the highest decoration in France and is divided into five degrees in ascending order: Chevalier (Knight)...
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  • Pierre Joliot (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
    (English: the National Order of Merit) in 1982 and of the Légion d'honneur (English: Legion of Honor) in 1984. Pierre Joliot held the Chair of Cellular...
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    fourragère in the colors of the Légion d'honneur. Only 34 French Infantry Regiments were decorated with the Légion d'honneur including seven Regiment of North-African...
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    disbanded before the end of the year. The Honorary Russian Legion (French: Légion d’Honneur Russe) of the 1st Moroccan Division continued to maintain a...
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    Le Corbusier (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    the Légion d'honneur. In 1945, he was promoted to Officier of the Légion d'honneur. In 1952, he was promoted to Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur. Finally...
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  • Légion Code, article 16. Les étrangers qui se seront signalés par les services qu’ils ont rendus à la France ou aux causes qu’elle soutient, Légion Code...
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    René Fonck (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for gallantry on the battle field ("faits de guerre") (to be distinguished from the Légion d'Honneur widely attributed...
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    Harold Pinter (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
    honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal...
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    Jean-Louis Georgelin (category Grand Chancellors of the Legion of Honour)
    2016 he served as Great Chancellor of the French national order, the Légion d'honneur. On 17 April 2019, Georgelin was appointed special representative to...
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    Paul-Frédéric Rollet (category Officers of the French Foreign Legion)
    citations already) as well as the double Fourragere, with colors of the Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre. At the end of the war of 1914–1918, he participated...
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    Leslie Caron (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
    la Légion d'Honneur, given by Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin in June 2004 Medaille D'Or De La Ville De Paris in 2012 Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur...
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    which in turn was a three-quarter-scale version of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur (also known as the Hôtel de Salm) in Paris, by Pierre Rousseau (1782)...
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    Bernard Arnault (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    students at the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague. Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur (France, 31 December 2023) Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des...
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    Foreign Legion are: 2e REI (2nd Foreign Legion Infantry) – croix de guerre des TOE 2e REP (2nd Foreign Legion Paratroops) – Légion d'honneur 1er REC (1st...
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  • Indonesian aviation pioneer and recipient of the prestigious French Légion d'honneur (28 February 1984). He is most well known for envisioning Indonesia's...
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    Auguste Escoffier (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    Escoffier was made Knight of the Legion d'Honneur. In 1928, he was presented with the medal of Officer of the Légion d'honneur. Escoffier married Delphine...
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  • also refer to: Philippine Legion of Honor, one of the highest decorations awarded by the Philippines Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, a building in Paris constructed...
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  • state sponsor of terrorism. Yves Rocher was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1992 and a commander in April 2007. He was also a member of the...
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  • Asha Pande (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    Asha Pande was a professor and the first Indian woman to receive the Légion d'honneur She was the founder-director of Rajasthan University's Master in European...
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    Kristin Scott Thomas (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth...
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  • and is nominated for the Légion d'honneur, angering Dreyfus and ruining his intentions and chances to win the Légion d'honneur. After following Xania to...
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    Marlene Dietrich (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
    whoswho.de. Retrieved 5 January 2013. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Officier de la Légion d'Honneur Bach 1992, p. 462. "NY Times: Black Fox: The Rise...
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