In 2010, Bisset was awarded the Légion d ' honneur insignia, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy calling her " a movie icon.

Image: Chevalier-legion-dhonneur-LouisXVIII-1814. jpg | Louis XVIII era ( 1814 ) Knight insignia: the front features Henry IV's profile and the rear, the arms of the French Kingdom ( three fleurs de lis ).

Image: Army-FRA-OF-06. svg | Rank insignia of French Army a général de brigade and French Air Force général de brigade aérienne

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

The French air force bequeathed four C-47s with French aircrews to the RLAF ; three were repainted in RLAF insignia.

Imperial coat of arms of marshal of the First French Empire prince Józef Poniatowski with Légion d ' honneur, Order of the White Eagle ( Poland ) | Order of the White Eagle, Virtuti Militari insignia.

It was an off-duty affectation of the Zouaves to wear their fezzes at different angles according to the regiment ; French officers of North African units during the 1930s often wore the same fez as their men, with rank insignia attached.

With the French Revolution, Riesener was retained by the Directory, and sent in 1794 to Versailles to remove the " insignia of feudality " from furniture he had recently made: royal cyphers and fleurs-de-lys were replaced with innocuous panels.

The decoration may be purchased from civilian military insignia vendors ( e. g. French Mint ) or by request from the French Embassy to the United States.

At the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, CAT supplied the French garrison by parachuting troops and supplies with covert USAF C-119 inscribed with French Air Force insignia.

Exceptionally for a French armoured cavalry regiment, it uses gold ( and not the usual silver ) insignia.

In its classes and insignia, the Order was modelled on the French Légion d ' honneur and the other French colonial orders.

Chasseurs do not say rouge ( red ) but bleu-cerise ( cherry blue ), except when speaking of the color of the lips of a beloved, the red in the Legion of Honour's insignia ( including its fourragère which is called la rouge ), and the red of the French flag.

In recognition of his work in educational lines, the French Government conferred upon him the insignia of an Officer of Public Instruction ( 1888 ).

The walls of the Memorial Chamber are divided into 17 niches, each containing a marble slab under a gothic blind arch topped with a gablet and finial, and decorated with various badges and insignia, including those of, on the mouldings: Canada's 178 pre-1914 militia regiments ; in the pierced quatrefoil panels: cavalry, and non-infantry field units ; in the diaper background: pre-Confederation French and British regiments and colonial forces ; on the gablet crockets: reinforced battalions ; on the gablet springers: all branches of the Canadian Corps ; on the arch quatrefoil and cusps: fighting battalions ; on the arch spandrels: medals and war decorations of the allied countries ; on the shield: coats of arms appropriate to the relevant historical context ; and on the low relief panel: historical scenes of Canadians during World War I.

In regards to the Battle of Pravia, the decree states that Alonso Pita da Veiga recaptured the standard " ... of His Most Serene Infante Don Fernando, who is now King of Hungary, Our most dear and loved son and brother, which bore the insignia of Our Duchy of Burgundy, which the French had taken when the standard-bearer was killed ”.

The uniforms and insignia of the Gendarmerie Maritime are very similar to those of the French Navy, but the ranks used are those of the rest of the Gendarmerie ( which are the same as the traditional ranks of the French Cavalry ).

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

Any reputable French interne can supply you with a dozen similar instances, and I'll presently recount a case out of my own personal experience, but, for the moment, let's resume our catalogue.

She wanted to go around the world, but she settled for a French holiday.

These are the wines the French themselves use for everyday drinking, for even in France virtually no one drinks the Grands Crus on a meal-to-meal basis.

In 1720 some Chickasaws massacred the French traders among them, and did not make peace for four years.

Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.

The Chickasaws finally were the occasion for the most disastrous wars during the French control of Louisiana.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

But by week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration ( see foreign news ), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist -- rather than a pro-Western -- government might be best for Laos.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.

* 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.

The group raced to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville, thus isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and some divisions of the French Army in northern France.

The German Army could muster only 120, 000 vehicles compared to the 300, 000 of the French Army.

Half of the German divisions available in 1940 were combat ready, often being more poorly equipped than the British and French Armies, as well as the German Army of 1914.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

Carbine model 1793, used by the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars.

The French Army maintained substantial cavalry forces in Algeria and Morocco from 1830 until the Second World War.

During the 1930s the French Army experimented with integrating mounted and mechanised cavalry units into larger formations.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

The French Army used existing mounted squadrons of Spahis to a limited extent for patrol work during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ) and the Swiss Army maintained a mounted dragoon regiment for combat purposes until 1973.

The French Army still has regiments with the historic designations of Cuirassiers, Hussars, Chasseurs, Dragoons and Spahis.

* Chasseurs d ' Afrique ( French Army )

* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997

The EBG combat engineering vehicle, based on the AMX 30 tank, is used by the engineers of the French Army for a variety of missions.