Two years later, he received the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, and in 1991, was awarded the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.

* French Legion of Honor ( Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur ) on 24 February 1986 for his UNICEF work.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

For his wartime work on radio the French government gave him the Legion of Honor in 1919.

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

During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy ( Berlin ), American Academy, Mark Twain ( U. S. A ) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.

" Modern French orders of knighthood include women, for example the Légion d ' Honneur ( Legion of Honor ) since the mid-19th c., but they are usually called chevaliers.

The first documented case is that of Marie-Angélique Duchemin ( 1772 – 1859 ), who fought in the Revolutionary Wars, received a military disability pension in 1798, the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1822, and the Legion of Honor in 1852.

The Legion of Merit ( Commander degree ) is one of only two United States military decorations to be issued as a neck order ( the other being the Medal of Honor ) and the only United States decoration which may be issued in award degrees ( much like an order of chivalry or certain Orders of Merit ).

The degrees and the design of the decoration were clearly influenced by the French Legion of Honor ( Légion 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.

Zola was brought to trial for criminal libel on 7 February 1898 and was convicted on 23 February and removed from the Legion of Honor.

He received the French Legion of Honor medal for his work.

Le Havre was honoured with the Legion of Honor award on 18 July 1949.

King Boris III was posthumously awarded the Jewish National Fund's Medal of the Legion of Honor, the first non-Jew to receive one of the Jewish community's highest honors.

Image: Georges Seurat 043. jpg | The Eiffel Tower 1889, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

By 1925, Tsuguharu Foujita had received the Belgian Order of Leopold and the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor.

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.

Bienvenüe eventually accumulated many honors for his engineering accomplishments, including the Grand Prix Berger of the Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1909 ) and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor ( 1929 ).

It begins in the village of Crow's Bridge, where a small detachment of the Legion has remained behind to guard a bridge at the request of the locals.

Salodurum was also home to a guard detachment of the XXII Legion, whose high command was stationed in Mainz in Germany.

The Legion had an active color guard that marched from the High School to a small cemetery northeast of the baseball diamond.

In 1948 the Cody chapter of the American Legion offered a reward for the " return " of the body, so the Denver chapter mounted a guard over the grave until a deeper shaft could be blasted into the rock.

The following day, Wellington's King's German Legion ( KGL ) heavy dragoons performed the astounding feat of " breaking a square " and overrunning a portion of the French rear guard in the Battle of Garcia Hernandez.

In 1952, the guard was renamed the Legion of the Republican Guard of Paris and took part in the Indochina War, which earned it the Croix de Guerre.

The Great Hacker War was a purported 1990 – 1991 conflict between the Masters of Deception ( MOD ) and an unsanctioned splinter faction of the older guard hacker group Legion of Doom ( LOD ), and some smaller subsidiary groups.

To this end, Jabotinsky advocated for mass Jewish immigration from Europe and the creation of a second Jewish Legion to guard a nascent Jewish state at inception.

The remains of the soldier were exhumed on the morning of May 16, 2000, and the coffin was flown in a Canadian Forces aircraft to Ottawa on May 25, accompanied by a guard of honour, a chaplain, Royal Canadian Legion veterans, and representatives of Canadian youth.

Some, including Canadian veterans of the Royal Canadian Legion, thought the site of the tomb deserved a military or police guard of honour as a symbol of respect and to protect it from vandalism and desecration.

* Gryphon Legion: These horsemen are the Tzarina's personal guard when she goes to war.

It begins in the village of Crow's Bridge, where a small detachment of the Legion has remained behind to guard a bridge at the request of the locals.

It usually appears on parades, wearing a Legion cap and accompanied by a Legionary, alongside the Legion's color guard on parades and ceremonies.

Their show with the guard doing an Irish jig and a circus section was not well-received, and the corps fell to eighth at CYO Nationals and, with most of the top corps opting for VFW VFW Nationals, they finished in second behind the Argonne Rebels at the Legion Nationals in the Houston Astrodome.

Cornwallis left a small company of German jägers and a few men from the Legion to give the appearance of a rear guard picket, and gave them specific orders to resist the American advance as much as possible.

Image: Legion001. jpg | The Jewish Legion cap badge: menorah and word קדימה Kadima ( forward )

File: CroatianTrefoil. svg | Croatian trefoil, used by the Axis-sympathetic Croatian Air Force Legion in World War II, formed from a defaced Balkenkreuz

The military press censor at SHAEF made a mistake and allowed the Cowan cable to go out starting with " Allied air bosses have made the long awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombing of great German population centres | date = September / October 1996 | url = http :// www. legionmagazine. com / en / index. php / 1996 / 09 / the-bomber-command-offensive / | title = The Bomber Command Offensive | publisher = originally published in the Legion Magazine

Heger Tor, formerly called Waterloo Tor, a memorial to George III of the United Kingdom | Elector Georg's King's German Legion | ' German ' Legion in Osnabrück.

Tombstone of Calidia ( gens ) | Titus Calidius Severus, centurion of the Legio XV Apollinaris | Fifteenth Legion, depicting a horse, centurion's helmet and armour, found in Carnuntum

Image: blissfield_township_american_legion_post. JPG | American Legion post 325, with F-105 on display, Adrian St.

image: deerfield_village_american_legion_post. JPG | American Legion post with M101 howitzer on display, W. River St.

The Legion " five years later " by Keith Giffen and Al Gordon ( comics ) | Al Gordon.

Image: Legion Honneur CKS plaque p1090335. jpg | Chiang Kai-shek's Légion d ' honneur plaque.

Image: Legion Honneur CKS p1090334. jpg | Chiang Kai-shek's Légion d ' honneur.

Image: Legion of Honor-Knight. JPG | Charles Lindbergh's Legion of Honour

Al-Husseini meeting with Muslim volunteers, including the Azerbaijani Legion | Legion of Azerbaijan, at the opening of the Islamic Central Institute in Berlin on 18 December 1942, during the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha.

Image: Insigne général de brigade. png | Rank insignia of French Foreign Legion général de brigade, who commands the entire French Foreign Legion.