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- Legion of Honour, premier order of the French republic, created by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul, on May 19, 1802, as a general military and civil order of merit conferred without regard to birth or religion provided that anyone admitted swears to uphold liberty and equality.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Raj Reddy. Legion of Honour, premier order of the French republic, created by Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul, on May 19, 1802, as a general military and civil order of merit conferred without regard to birth or religion provided that anyone admitted swears to uphold liberty and equality.
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Share it. © Fondation Napoléon. After the abolition by the Revolution of the ancient orders of chivalry in the name of égalité, the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour), instituted on 29 Floréal, An X (19 May, 1802), was created as an honour of a completely different type.
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ] ), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ( Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur ), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil.
The Legion of Honor was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and was France’s highest military decoration and one of the most prestigious honors that a Napoleonic soldier could receive. Soldiers were awarded the Legion of Honor for a wide range of exceptional acts of valor, leadership, and service to the nation.
The 29 articles of the bill creating the order support this contention: – article 1: the 'Legion of Honour' is created as the enactment of article 87 of the constitution regarding rewards for military and civilian excellence, – article 2: the Legion is composed of a Grand Conseil and fifteen cohorts, – article 3: national property, to the ...
Some 48,000 men became part of the Legion, only 1200 of them civilians, but all were stipulated as being equals by Bonaparte. By 1806 there were 13,000 surviving legionnaires, in 1807 foreign troops were made eligible and by 1814 the Legion had to cater for 25,000 living members.
The museum offers a complete panorama of the orders created under the Empire: the Légion d'Honneur, of course, with its development over the period 1804 to 1815; the order of the Couronne de fer (the Iron Crown), founded by Napoleon as the King of Italy in 1805; the order of Réunion, created in 1811 in order to replace the orders that the ...
