Orders, decorations, and medals of France
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. The others were replaced by the Ordre national du Mérite.
National orders
Legion of Honour | Order of Liberation | National Order of Merit |
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Order of Academic Palms | Order of Arts and Letters | Order of Agricultural Merit | Order of Maritime Merit |
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Civilian decorations
Insignia for wounded civilians | Honour medal of the National Police | Honour medal for firefighters | Honour medal for courage and devotion | Medal of the French Family | Honour medal of railroads |
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Honour medal for work | Regional, departmental and municipal honour medal | Honour medal for youth, sports and associative engagements | Honour medal for civilian personnel of the defense ministry | Honour medal of Foreign Affairs | Honour medal of Aeronautics |
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Military decorations
Military Medal | War Cross (1914–1918) | War Cross (1939–1945) | War Cross for foreign operational theaters | Cross for Military Valour | Medal of the Gendarmerie nationale |
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Resistance Medal | Escapees' Medal | Volunteer combatant's cross 1914–1918 | Volunteer combatant's cross | Cross of the resistance volunteer combatant | Combatant's Cross |
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Aeronautical Medal | Overseas Medal | Medal for voluntary military service | National Defence Medal | Medal for the War Wounded | Military Health Service honour medal |
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Commemorative medals
19th century
First Madagascar campaign medal 1883 | Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal 1883–1885 | Dahomey Expedition commemorative medal 1892 | Second Madagascar campaign medal 1894–1895 | Colonial Medal |
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1900–1914
1901 China expedition commemorative medal | Morocco commemorative medal (1909) |
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1st World War (1914–1918)
1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal | 1914–1918 Commemorative war medal | Dardanelles campaign medal | Orient campaign medal |
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Medal of French Gratitude | Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War | Medal for victims of the invasion |
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Between the two wars (1918–1939)
Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal |
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Second World War (1939–1945)
1939–1945 Commemorative war medal | 1943–1944 Italian campaign medal | Medal of a liberated France |
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Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France | Deported for acts of resistance medal | Interned for acts of resistance medal | Political deportee's medal | Political internee's medal | Defaulter's medal |
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After 1945
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon medal | Medal of the Nation's Gratitude | Medal for the Military Protection of the Territory |
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Abolished or dormant Orders
Ministerial Orders
Order of Combatant Merit | Order of Military Merit | Order of Civil Merit | Order of Social Merit | Order of Working Merit |
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Order of Touristic Merit | Order of the National Economy | Order of Commercial & Industrial Merit | Order of Artisanal Merit | Order of Public Health |
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Order of Postal Merit | Order of Sporting Merit |
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Colonial Orders
Indochinese Order of Merit | Saharan Order of Merit | Order of the Black Star | Order of the Star of Anjouan | Order of Nichan el Anouar |
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Order of the Dragon of Annam | Royal Order of Cambodia | Order of Tahiti Nui |
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See also
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