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This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of France. Some, like the Legion of Honour, are awarded to both the armed forces and civilians. Others are decorations of a pure civilian or military character. Only four of the 19 Ministerial orders have survived the reform of the French system of decorations in 1963.
Order of Arts and Letters) (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) 1957; Order of the Saharian Merit (Ordre du Mérite saharien) 1958; The French Republic knew following a decree of 1 September 1950 two "Orders of Overseas France" (Ordres de la France d'Outre-mer) : Order of the Black Star 1889; Order of the Star of Anjouan 1874
Médaille de la France libérée (1944) Médaille commémorative des opérations de l'ONU en Corée (1952) Médaille commémorative de la campagne d'Indochine (1953) Middle East operations commemorative medal (1956) Médaille commémorative des opérations de securité et de maintien de l'ordre en Afrique du Nord (1958)
The total number of awards is close to 1 million [6] (estimated at 900,000 in 2021, [5] including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients [7]), with some 92,000 recipients alive today. [8] Only until 2008 was gender parity achieved amongst the yearly list of recipients, with the total number of women recipients since the award's establishment being ...
Pages in category "Orders, decorations, and medals of France" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A book of these letters, called Victor Chapman's Letters from France, with a memoir by John Jay Chapman was published in 1917 after his death. In his memory, the composer Charles Martin Loeffler, a friend of Chapman's father, composed his quartet Music for Four Stringed Instruments. [6]
Military Health Service honour medal; Médaille de la Gendarmerie nationale; Escapees' Medal; Medal for Voluntary Military Service; Médaille du Cercle National des Armées de Terre, Air et Mer; Médaille militaire; Médaillon Des Deux Épées; Medal of a liberated France; Orders, decorations, and medals of France; Order of Military Merit ...
The Combatant's Cross (French: "Croix du combattant") is a French decoration that recognizes, as its name implies, those who fought in combat for France. The Poilus (French combat soldiers) of World War I worked toward recognition by the government, of a special status to those who had participated in the bitter fighting of 1914–1918 (as ...