Abbadie was a knight of the Legion of Honour and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985, but refused to receive it.

* 2002: Commander of the Legion of Honour

Rossini was a foreign associate of the institute, grand officer of the Legion of Honour and recipient of innumerable orders.

* Commander of the Legion of Honour

With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, Josip Broz Tito received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.

* Legion of Honour, French

The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds a significant collection of memorabilia relating to Robert Menzies, including a range of medals and civil awards received by Sir Robert such as his Jubilee and Coronation medals, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour and US Legion of Merit.

Other mementos of Holmes's cases are a gold sovereign from Irene Adler (" A Scandal in Bohemia ") and an autographed letter of thanks from the French President and a Legion of Honour for tracking down an assassin named Huret (" The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ").

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

* May 19 – Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French Légion d ' honneur ( Legion of Honour ).

* Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

Brazda, who settled in France after the war, was later awarded the Legion of Honour.

Haussmann had been made senator in 1857, member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1867, and grand cross of the Legion of Honour in 1862.

On July 31, 1914, coincidentally the same day that the noted antimilitarist Jean Jaurès was assassinated, Raymond Poincaré signed a decree making Zaharoff a commander of the Legion of Honour.

Resolving these issues delayed the first night until 3 March 1875 on which morning, by chance, Bizet's appointment as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour was announced.

Jean Reiter, Bizet's elder son, had a successful career as press director of Le Temps, became an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and died in 1939 at the age of 77.

A week later, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and subsequently assigned to command an artillery unit at Vincennes.

: Officer of the Legion of Honour

She was inducted as an officer of France's Legion of Honour in 2007.

With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.

It suffered much from the ravages of the Thirty Years ' War, but the episcopal palace, then destroyed, was subsequently rebuilt, and in 1852 was converted by Louis Napoleon into a place of residence for widows of knights of the Legion of Honour.

* Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1900

* 1900: gold medal, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour ( France )

In France she was decorated with the Legion of Honour by the Empress Eugenie and was promoted to officer of the order.

France maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment ( DLEM ) on Mayotte.

The purpose of the Foreign Legion was to remove disruptive elements from society and put them to use fighting the enemies of France.

Created to fight " outside mainland France ", the Foreign Legion was stationed in Algeria, where it took part in the pacification and development of the colony, by notably drying the marshes in the region of Algiers.

The survivors returned to France, many reenlisting in the new Foreign Legion along with many of their former Carlist enemies.

According to French law, the Foreign Legion was not to be used within Metropolitan France except in the case of a national invasion, and was consequently not a part of Napoleon III ’ s Imperial Army that capitulated at Sedan.

On 11 October 1870 two provisional battalions disembarked at Toulon, the first time the Foreign Legion had been deployed in France itself.

But after being downsized to 8, 000 men and stripped of all heavy weaponry, the Foreign Legion was spared, packed up and re-headquartered in metropolitan France.

The effect was to retain the Foreign Legion as a professional force which could be used for military interventions outside France and not involve the politically unpopular use of French conscripts.

* 1960 – In France, Kelly was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

Only a few weeks before his death, the government of France awarded him its highest honor, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d ' Honneur.

He was later awarded several other prizes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, an Honorary PhD from the Berklee College of Music in 1971, and the Legion of Honor by France in 1973, the highest civilian honors in each country.

* GC of the Legion d ' Honneur of France ( 29 April 1898 )

They tried to overrun two French military outpost and gain support for local Muslim tribes loyal to France, but instead they were harassed and eventually defeated by Legion units led by Colonel Albert Brothier after several days of fighting.

During 1988 and 1989, Davis was fêted for her career achievements, receiving the Kennedy Center Honor, the Legion of Honor from France, the Campione d ' Italia from Italy and the Film Society of Lincoln Center Lifetime Achievement Award.

During the Shaba invasions, France sided firmly with Mobutu: during the first Shaba invasion, France airlifted 1, 500 Moroccan troops to Zaire, and the rebels were repulsed ; a year later, during the second Shaba invasion, France itself would send French Foreign Legion paratroopers ( 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment ) to aid Mobutu ( along with Belgium ).

His war decorations from other nations, including the War Crosses of Norway, France, Greece and the Netherlands, the US Legion of Merit and the French Médaille Militaire, are testament to the international recognition of his contribution to the war against Hitler.

Madame E. Guérin attended the 1920 convention where the Legion supported Michael's proposal and was herself inspired to sell poppies in her native France to raise money for the war's orphans.

* Grand Commandeur of the Legion of Honour ( France )-194?

The government of France made him a Commandeur de la Legion d ' Honneur.

France gave him political asylum because of the French Foreign Legion obligations.