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    The Order of Saint Michael (French: Ordre de Saint-Michel) is a French dynastic order of chivalry, founded by King Louis XI of France on 1 August 1469...
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  • Governor of Rotary International and received a knighthood, the Ordre National du Mérite. Duviard was a brother-in-law of Carlo Bourlet (1866–1913), who...
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    de Gaulle. A number of so-called "ministerial orders" were consolidated into the Ordre national du Mérite. De Gaulle, however, was fond of the Ordre des...
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    Yvon Morandat (category Grand Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    Bouches-du-Rhône. He became a companion of the Order of Liberation in July 1945. He also received the Croix de Guerre, Légion d'Honneur, Ordre national du Mérite...
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    Knight – 1919) Grand Master of the Ordre de la Libération Grand-Croix of the Ordre national du Mérite – 1963 Croix de guerre 1915 Combatant's Cross Medal...
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    entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the French military academy. Each class has a name; his was Metz et Strasbourg after towns in Alsace and...
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    Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (French: Ordre du Lion d'Or de la Maison de Nassau, Dutch: Huisorde van de Gouden Leeuw van Nassau) is a chivalric order...
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    Honour (France) Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (France) Medal Pour le Mérite (Germany) A prolific author...
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    on October 30, 2018. On June 26, 1961, Georges Bazin registered the Ordre du Mérite Monchatois with the prefecture, initially to "reward people who have...
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    Marcel Bigeard (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
    Senegal (Grand officier du Mérite Sénégalais) Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Togo (Grand officier du Ordre national du Mérite togolais) Grand Officer...
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    Victor Emmanuel II (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class))
    Bayern (1873), "Königliche Orden" p. 8 Ferdinand Veldekens (1858). Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer. lelong. p. 214. Jørgen Pedersen...
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    Gérard Jugnot (category Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    Jugnot with more than a million entries in France. "Décret du 13 juillet 2004 portant promotion et nomination". JORF. 2004 (162): 12697. 14 July 2004. PREX0407466D...
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    Jean-Paul Belmondo (category Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    d'un enfant gâté. Belmondo was made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre National du Mérite, promoted to Officier (Officer) in 1986 and promoted to Commandeur...
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    Klemens von Metternich (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    Gustaf (1913). Die Ritter des Ordens pour le mérite 1812–1913 [The Knights of the Order of the Pour le Mérite] (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried...
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  • List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    OCLC 1296574133. Retrieved 30 May 2024. "Jean Chapdelaine (1914 – 2005)". Ordre National Du Québec (in French). Retrieved 22 March 2022. Dolbec, Michael (13 March...
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    caractéristiques de la querelle entre l’Université de Louvain et le Saint-Office sur le Jansénisme louvaniste du XVIIe siècle", in: Controverse et polémiques...
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    Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite (26 May 1814). Great-grandson: Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Ernst Heinrich von Forcade de Biaix (* 7 October 1787, Brieg...
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    such as the Légion d'Honneur, the Ordre National du Mérite, the Ordre des Palmes académiques and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and the Order...
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    (1862), Histoire du consulat et de l'empire, faisant suite à l'Histoire de la révolution française (in French), vol. 20, Paris: Lheureux et Cie. Torfs, Michaël...
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    Benbrahim-El Andaloussi du ouissam du mérite national de l'ordre de Commandeur". AERONAUTIQUE .MA : Portail Marocain de l'aéronautique et du Spatial (in French)...
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    July 2017. Dufau de Maluquer, Armand de & Jaurgain, Jean de: Armorial de Béarn, 1696-1701 : extrait du recueil officiel dressé par ordre de Louis XIV [sous...
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    November 1705, by the Margrave Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Bayreuth as the Ordre de la Sincérité. This soon fell into disuse but was revived in 1712 in Brandenburg-Bayreuth...
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  • List of titles and honours of Juan Carlos I (category Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    ISBN 978-951-37-7005-1. Hervé Pinoteau (1983). État de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit en 1830 et la survivance des ordres du roi. Autour des dynasties françaises (in French)...
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  • Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
    légitime de Boinet et de Brisais, commissaire des guerres en non-activité, Chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de Léopold d'Autriche et du Mérite Militaire de Hesse...
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    Julia Kristeva (category Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    the latter being distinct from the discipline of semiotics founded by Ferdinand de Saussure. As explained by Augustine Perumalil, Kristeva's "semiotic is...
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    Saxe-Ernestine House Order (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Saxe-Ernestine House Order". Retrieved 11 June 2010. Almanach royal de Belgique: Classé Et Mis En Ordre Par H. Tarlier /p. 140 Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum...
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    Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    Commander of the Order of the Cross of Marie; a Grand Cross of the Pour le Mérite, the German Eagle, the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, the Order of George I...
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