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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 ...
This article serves as an index – as complete as possible – of all the honorific orders or similar decorations awarded by France, classified by Monarchies chapter and Republics chapter, and, under each chapter, recipients' countries and the detailed list of recipients.
France has scored a belated surprise Olympic victory against Great Britain – 124 years later than expected – after a 1900 Paris Olympics cycling silver medal was taken away from Team GB and ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics ended less than six months ago, but some of the medals handed out had an even shorter shelf life. The French mint, known as the Monnaie de Paris, will be replacing a number ...
Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal; Military Health Service honour medal; Médaille de la Famille française; Médaille de la Gendarmerie nationale; Medal of French Gratitude; Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914–1918 Great War; Medal for Victims of the Invasion; Medal of a liberated France; Medal of the Nation's ...