Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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FRANCE<br />
Legion <strong>of</strong> Honour medal – Third type<br />
Insigne de la Légion d’honneur<br />
du troisième type<br />
1808–12<br />
gold, enamel, silk<br />
Fondation Napoléon, Paris<br />
Donation Lapeyre inv. 901<br />
FRANCE<br />
Legion <strong>of</strong> Honour medal (Gold Eagle)<br />
– Fourth type<br />
Aigle d’or, quatrième type<br />
1815–30<br />
gold, enamel, silk<br />
Musée national de la Légion d’honneur, Paris<br />
Purchased, 1989 inv. 08495<br />
Passed into law on 29 Floréal, Year X<br />
(19 May 1802), the Legion <strong>of</strong> Honour was<br />
part <strong>of</strong> Napoleon’s vision for a newly ordered<br />
France that included his reorganisation <strong>of</strong><br />
judicial and civic administration.<br />
During the First Empire four separate types<br />
<strong>of</strong> Legion <strong>of</strong> Honour insignia were issued,<br />
distinguished by the absence or presence<br />
<strong>of</strong> an Imperial crown, variants in the<br />
construction <strong>of</strong> this crown and the addition<br />
or omission <strong>of</strong> balls on the points <strong>of</strong> the stars.<br />
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