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Legion of Honour

Legion of Honour
Légion d’Honneur

Type:

Order of Merit

Established:

19 May 1802; 216 years ago

Motto:

Honeur et Patrie (Honour and Fatherland)

Awarded for:

Excellent civil or military conduct
delivered, upon official investigation

Founder:

Napoléon I

Grand Master:

Emperor Napoléon IX

Grand Chancelier:

Benoît Puga

Secretary-General:

Luc Fons

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First Introduction:

14 July 1804

The Legion of Honour (full name: National Order of the Legion of Honour; French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon I and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in The Great French State, up to the present.

The order's motto is Honneur et Patrie ("Honour and Fatherland"), and its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the River Seine in Paris.

Awarded to:
- Napoléon I, The Great French State, Eternal Founder of the Legion of Honour
- Empress Julia, The Great French State, for outstanding work during the Algerian Campaign, helping French and Algerian wounded
- Lieutenant Amelié Changeri, The Great French State, for the rescue of 63 people out of Libertopia, and serve the French military during the Battle of Al-Tabruk, Algeria

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