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Legion of Honor
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Legion of Honor Légion d'Honneur the highest French decoration for military or civilian service, established by the Emperor Napoleon I on May 19, 1802. The Légion d'Honneur is awarded only for gallantry in action or for twenty years of distinguished service in peacetime.
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Abbé Pierre
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...for which he was awarded the Legion of Honor; during the war, he adopted the...defense of the poor, returning his Legion of Honor to focus attention on their plight...France. He was later awarded the Legion of Honor for his human rights work.
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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...army officer and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, born in New York. The son of...Service Medal . He helped found the American Legion to honor veterans and as a way to unite American...him a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor .
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chevalier
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...a chivalrous man. ∎ a member of certain orders of knighthood or of modern French orders such as the Legion of Honor. ∎ ( Chevalier ) Brit., hist. the title of James and Charles Stuart, pretenders to the British throne...
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Maurice Allais
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...where he developed his economic theories of how large, state-owned monopolies function. He was named an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1977, and in 1988 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his earlier work on resource allocation...
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