The Order of the Gallic Francisque (French: L’ordre de la Francisque gallique) is an order and medal which was awarded by the Vichy Regime, the Nazi-aligned...

(both former members of La Cagoule), François Mitterrand received the Order of the Francisque (the honorific distinction of the Vichy Regime). Debate...

of the Legion of Honour Medal of the Order of the Francisque Badge of the Brigadier General Badge of the French Foreign Legion  Baden: Grand Cross of...

been regarded as the birth of cinema. Either the techniques or the business models of earlier filmmakers proved to be less viable than the breakthrough presentations...

first-past-the-post election system and the formation of a two-party system. While analysing the political system of France, he coined the term semi-presidential...

activist – he was, among other things, a member of the Parti Populaire Français. Following the fall of the Vichy regime, he escaped to Portugal's Estado...

pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued...

the cathedral of Vichy. Huntziger is buried in Passy Cemetery, Paris. His widow was the first recipient of the Vichy regime's Order of the Francisque...

Agricultural Merit: 28 July 1906 Officer of the Order of Maritime Merit: 19 January 1931 Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour: 21 December 1937;Grand Officer:...

politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign...

the Hospitals (1919) Professor at the Collège de France (1936) Order of the Francisque Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Croix de guerre 1914-1918 Interallied...

and author. He practised law at the Court of Appeals of Paris and the New York State Bar Association. He was the author of several books about World War...

During the war, he took numerous theatrical tours, notably a tour to the US under the direction of Lucien Guitry. He became a member of the Firmin Gémier...

who became the State Secretary of the Navy (secrétaire d'État à la Marine) of the Vichy government from April to November 1942. Entered the École navale...

Kingdom: Companion of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George  Sweden: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword (1939)...

but lost his seat during the first legislative elections of the Fifth Republic. Tixier-Vignancour was a candidate during the 1965 French presidential...

Vichy France, the presidential standard was adorned with the Order of the Francisque. Charles de Gaulle used a cross of Lorraine on the presidential standard...

to the Conseil National of the Vichy regime. He was also awarded the Order of the Francisque. During the occupation, Antoine Pinay remained mayor of Saint-Chamond...

of the "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was imprisoned in Itter Castle during the latter...

French politician. He began his career as a physician. He was the Secretary (or Minister) of Family and Health from 18 April 1942 to 20 August 1944. "Raymond...

terms of content. Jeantet was also one of two nominees, the other being Simon Arbellot, who put forward Mitterrand's name for the Ordre de la francisque medal...

Cross of the Order of Glory (Tunisia) Grand Cordon of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Anjouan Grand Cross of the Étoile...

Bousquet was set to arrest those responsible, and the Milice asked Berlin to have Bousquet removed. After ordering releases and destroying his archives, Bousquet...

He joined the company at what later was the Théatre de Paris, only to shortly after at the Conservatoire, becoming a pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française...

and was decorated as a Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour. In 1919 he was elected deputy of the Charente-Inférieure département....

supporter of the Révolution nationale, he served as co-Cabinet Secretary to Marshal Philippe Pétain from 1941 to 1942. He was deported to the Dachau concentration...

received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Gaspard. In 1938, he became the first Goncourt laureate to be appointed a member of the Académie Goncourt, the jury...

a member of the National Council (parliament) of Vichy France. He was also decorated with the Order of the Francisque. While involved in the Vichy Government...

critic of Nazi Germany, he would go on to serve as a minister in the collaborationist Vichy regime. The son of Aimé Barthélemy, a left-wing mayor of Toulouse...

acquitted on 20 February 1955 by the Paris Military Tribunal. Commander of the Legion of Honour (1933) Order of the Francisque "Louis Alype dit Pierre-Alype"...