Talk:Légion d'honneur

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Ok, according to the article, France awarded Legion membership to all those who fought on French soil during the first World War. Does this include former German soldiers, who were France's enemies?The Holy Hand Grenade Attack Llama#42 19:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] It is Legion of Honour, it is a translation of a french word!

The rules are:

Exceptions. The word glamour comes from Scots, not Latin or French, and is usually spelled glamour (rarely glamor) in the U.S. and glamour always elsewhere else; saviour is a common variant of savior in the U.S.; the name of the herb savory is thus spelled everywhere (although the probably related adjective savo(u)ry does have a u in Britain.)

Robert Prummel 00:19, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


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The Legion of Honour is the most interesting of the European Orders because of frequent changes of its appearance due to different regimes which conferred it. Where is that part of the article?

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          • I tried to work this out, copyright problems are a barrier...

Robert Prummel 01:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Order Quota

The article cites a maximum quota of members. Does anyone know what happens when all of the positions have been awarded? Does yet another Order succeed it? I don't know how frequently these are handed out, but it doesn't look like it will be too long before those numbers are reached. --BDD 19:21, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

People tend to be fairly old before being granted senior honours, so it's possible that the numbers will remain fairly constant.

[edit] "de jure"

When it says "dismissed 'de jure'" does this mean by action of law? Or must there be some sort of action or proceeding separate from the conviction? --Daniel C. Boyer 19:44, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination and Eligability ?

This article doesn't say anything about the nature of nominations ? Is this simply the gift of the President of France (like the Royal Victorian Order) or is there some sort of advisory council like in the Order of Canada ? Dowew 15:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign recipients

I though that foreigners could only became Chevalier's in the Legion of Honor. This must be incorrect since Lucien Bouchard was made a Commander (my personal feelings for Bouchard aside) I wonder why this was allowed. Dowew 22:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

        • Foreigners can be awarded the insignia of all 5 classes!

Robert Prummel 01:56, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boulogne

The handling in Boulogne (picture) was the second and not the first one. The first one took place on July 15, 1804 in the chapel of Les Invalides. See [1]

        • Then i will correct it!

Robert Prummel 01:57, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

  • Support rename to Légion d'honneur, not least as "Legion of Honor" might suggest all who've received the Medal of Honor or similarly-named decorations. Regards, David Kernow 00:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I support Légion d'honneur! Maybe the best solution is to send all those who try and find Legion of Honour and legion of Honor to a page where they can decide between the Legion of Honor ( Order of the republic of the Phillipenes); Legion of honor ( Legion of Honour or Légion d'honneur in France) and end up on the propper sites. Robert Prummel 01:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • comment - BTW There are an awful lot of redirects to fix here see Legion of Honor (disambiguation) what links here Jooler 10:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support with redirects from Legion of Honor and Legion of Honour. The Philippine one can be on the disamb page that is already linked to on the top. -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 10:39, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support - This article also needs a little TLC. --AlexDW 12:12, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neutral Spelling

Since this seems to be the subject of many edits and reverts, in the interest of neutrality, I've replaced all instances of "Legion of Hono(u)r" with the French "Légion d'honneur," and all other instances of hono(u)r with an appropriate synonym such as decoration or distinction, except in the translation of the Legion's motto. Since the shortened form ("Legion") is dialect-neutral, I've left it the way it is. I've also made various grammatical edits. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.195.134.10 (talk • contribs).

Thanks, 72.195.134.10; I'd been meaning to suggest what you've done. I've gone one step further and renamed all instances of "Legion" to "Légion" where the former is used as shorthand for "Légion d'honneur". Best wishes, David Kernow 02:14, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, David. I just realized that I forgot to sign that last comment, and was going to fix it! Oh well.

--72.195.134.10 02:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC) Joe (aka 72.195.134.10 ;-) )

Based on Wikipedia:Naming conventions that says "article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize," this should be changed to Legion of Honor. Such changes have and are being made to other foreign-language articles such as this one [2] from Académie des Sciences to French Academy of Sciences. C. C. Perez 11:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

But there is also an article "Legion of Honor", referring to something of the Philippines. Extremely sexy 15:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit No. 66466235

Sorry I was a bit ambiguous with the edit summary The Legion does act like a "Order of Chivalry". But that needs a cite, since French official literature call it plainly an "Order" or "the national order of merit". Please disregard "French official literature" and read "what I've seen on the Order". In particular the Legion of Honour's official history page (in French), in the paragraph about the 1960s.

Mr Bluefin 03:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

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