Légion d'honneur

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order of merit state decoration

The Légion d'honneur is France’s highest order of merit, awarded for outstanding military or civil achievements.

Aliases (15)

Legion of Honour ×46
French Legion of Honour ×10
Légion d’honneur ×5
Order of the Legion of Honour ×4
ordre national de la Légion d'honneur ×4
Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur ×3
French Légion d’honneur ×1
French National Order of the Legion of Honour ×1
Honneur et Patrie (through the Légion d'honneur affiliation) ×1
Legion of Honor ×1
Légion d’honneur (refused) ×1
Légion française des honneurs ×1
National Order of the Legion of Honour ×1
Order of the Légion d'honneur ×1
Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	order of merit → state decoration →
administeredBy	Grand Chancery of the Legion of Honour →
alsoKnownAs	French Legion of Honour → Légion française des honneurs → Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur →
associatedBuilding	Palais de la Légion d'honneur →
awardedFor	eminent services to the French nation → exceptional civil achievements → exceptional military achievements →
awardingBody	French government →
awardingFrequency	continuous since establishment →
country	France →
currentGrandMaster	President of the French Republic →
eligibility	French citizens → foreign nationals →
establishedBy	Napoleon Bonaparte →
firstAwarded	1804 →
founder	Napoleon Bonaparte →
grade	Chevalier → Commandeur → Grand Officier → Grand-croix → Officier →
hasCivilDivision	true →
hasFiveClassStructure	true →
hasMilitaryDivision	true →
hasPostNominalLetters	no official post-nominal letters in French usage →
hasPrecedenceOver	Ordre national du Mérite →
headOfOrder	President of France →
headTitle	Grand maître de la Légion d'honneur →
highestRankIn	French system of orders, decorations and medals →
inception	1802 →
inceptionDate	19 May 1802 →
insigniaMaterial	enamelled metal →
insigniaType	five-armed star badge →
legalBasis	Law of 19 May 1802 →
locationOfChancery	Paris →
motto	Honneur et Patrie →
nativeLanguage	French →
nativeName	Légion d'honneur →
purpose	recognition of outstanding civil merit → recognition of outstanding military merit →
religiousAffiliation	secular →
ribbonColor	solid red →
status	currently awarded →
symbolizes	recognition by the French nation →
type	national order →

Referenced by (118)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Akio Morita ("Legion of Honour") → Akira Kurosawa ("Legion of Honour") → Alain Mimoun ("Légion d’honneur") → Albert Ball ("Legion of Honour") → Alessandro Volta ("Legion of Honour") → Alexander Graham Bell ("Legion of Honour") → Alexander Graham Bell ("Legion of Honour") → Alexander Papagos ("Legion of Honour") → Alexandros Papagos ("Legion of Honour") → Alexis Carrel → Alicia Alonso ("National Order of the Legion of Honour") → André Maginot → Arsène Wenger → Arthur Currie ("Legion of Honour") → Audie Murphy ("French Legion of Honour") → Ben Bradlee ("French Legion of Honour") → Billy Bishop ("Legion of Honour") → Brooke Astor ("Legion of Honour") → Carolus-Duran ("Legion of Honour") → Charles Rumney Samson ("Legion of Honour") → Charlotte Perriand ("Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur") → David Rockefeller ("Legion of Honour") → David Sarnoff ("French Legion of Honour") → Douglas Bader ("Legion of Honour") → Douglas Dillon ("Legion of Honour") → Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("Legion of Honour") → Edith Wharton ("French Legion of Honour") → Edwin Moses ("Légion d’honneur") → Ela Bhatt ("Legion of Honour") → Elie Wiesel ("Legion of Honour") → Gabriel García Márquez ("French Legion of Honour") → Gae Aulenti ("Legion of Honour") → Gene Kelly ("Legion of Honour") → Georges Braque ("Order of the Legion of Honour") → Hastings Ismay ("Legion of Honour") → Henri Giraud → Henry Rawlinson ("Legion of Honour") → Jacques Piccard ("Legion of Honour") → Jacques-Yves Cousteau ("Legion of Honour") → Jean Vanier ("Legion of Honour") → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("Order of the Legion of Honour") → John A. Lejeune ("French Legion of Honour") → Jonathan M. Wainwright ("Legion of Honour") → Joseph Stiglitz → Josephine Baker → Kazuo Inamori ("French Legion of Honour") → Kees van Dongen ("Legion of Honour") → Lata Mangeshkar ("Legion of Honour") → Leclerc → Lord Gort ("Legion of Honour") → Louis Pouzin → Marie-Pierre Kœnig → Maurice Ravel ("Légion d’honneur (refused)") → Mikhail Piotrovsky ("Order of the Legion of Honour") → Olivia de Havilland → Omar Bradley ("Legion of Honour") → Pierre Monteux → Raj Reddy ("Legion of Honour") → Reginald Warneford → Renzo Piano → René Lalique ("Legion of Honour") → Samuel Morse ("Legion of Honour") → Satyajit Ray ("Legion of Honour") → Sekai Holland ("French National Order of the Legion of Honour") → Sophus Lie → Tino Rossi ("Legion of Honour") → Umberto Eco → William A. Moffett ("Legion of Honour") → William Birdwood ("Legion of Honour") → Władysław Sikorski ("Legion of Honour") → Yann LeCun ("Legion of Honour") → Yann LeCun → Yaşar Kemal ("Legion of Honour") →	awardReceived
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur → Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur → Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur ("Order of the Légion d'honneur") → Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur → Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur → Officier de la Légion d'honneur → grand collier de la Légion d'honneur →	partOf
Légion d'honneur ("Légion française des honneurs") → Légion d'honneur ("Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") → Légion d'honneur ("French Legion of Honour") →	alsoKnownAs
Honneur et Patrie → Honneur et Patrie ("Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") → Imperial arms of the French Empire under Napoleon I →	associatedWith
Solomon R. Guggenheim ("Legion of Honour") → Suzanne Farrell ("French Légion d’honneur") → Ève Curie ("Legion of Honour") →	notableAward
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur → Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur → Officier de la Légion d'honneur →	order
Compagnon de la Libération → Ordre national du Mérite ("Légion d’honneur") →	higherAward
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres → grand collier de la Légion d'honneur ("ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") →	relatedTo
Légion d'honneur schools →	affiliatedWith
French Code of the Légion d'honneur and Military Medal →	appliesTo
Grand maître de la Légion d'honneur ("ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") →	autoritéSur
Eugène Boudin ("Legion of Honour") →	award
Eunice Kennedy Shriver ("Legion of Honor") →	award received
Grand maître de la Légion d'honneur ("ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") →	crééAvec
Eugène de Beauharnais ("Legion of Honour") →	decoratedWith
Legion of Merit ("French Legion of Honour") →	designInfluence
Grand maître de la Légion d'honneur ("ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") →	faitPartieDe
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ("Legion of Honour") →	foreignHonour
G.O.L.H. ("Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur") →	gradeBelongsToOrder
William Cohen ("French Legion of Honour") →	hasHonor
Légion d'honneur schools ("Honneur et Patrie (through the Légion d'honneur affiliation)") →	hasMotto
Médaille militaire ("Légion d’honneur") →	higherRank
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur →	highestRankIn
Gabriel González Videla ("Order of the Legion of Honour") →	honor
French national orders →	includes
Légion d'honneur →	nativeName
G.O.L.H. →	refersToOrder
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France ("Légion d’honneur") →	relatedOrder
Grand Chancery of the Légion d'honneur →	responsibleFor
Hôtel de Salm →	usedBy