The Legion of Honor Museum in Paris, France
Medals and ceremonial objects here. This museum is free -- even for an audioguide, you only have to leave them your valid piece of identity as security. The museum is unusually well documented, is fairly accessible for the disabled, and is not much of a place which would interest small children, I think, as a lot of the objects are in displays little ones might not be able to see. Nor care much about.
This museum is directly across from the Orsay Museum in Paris. The workers here were unusually knowledgeable, polite and helpful and pleasant to deal with. This is right on the River Seine and though a highly touristy area, there are many shops and restaurants around here which aim to please. Many things are closed on Sundays in Paris but shops and places were still somewhat open here. I don't like military things but am always up for a museum visit. We had planned on seeing another show but the lines were too long, so we had a plan B prepared and went here instead.
If you are into the Order of the Knights of Malta, this place is your must-see. Even if you just like gems and paintings, you'll like it here. The building itself is pretty and pleasant. And it was warm! (It's very cold outside here right now.)
If you want to go to the famous Orsay Museum and pay, fine. I like that museum a lot, but the lines can be daunting and the crowds distracting. Right across the street, you have this free museum. Why not? I also think some of the best souvenir shops in Paris are right by here. I've dined in this nabe and it was pretty good -- I've even had breakfast here! You know, a lot of people crowd into Notre Dame, not realizing the oldest church in Paris is right across the river, it's empty and gorgeous, and it has a beautiful little park! People get attracted to main sites and miss the possibly better stuff right nearby.
I saw some sandwiches on display for sale by here with some good looking pastries, the prices were okay, and it was all set out like artwork! It was just too cold to do a clip of it. This area is a tad out of the way but since it is right on the Seine, you cannot go far wrong over here -- you can walk around here and stuff your eyeballs. There is also wonderful architecture and plenty of atmosphere. This is one little part of Paris which is highly touristy but which I have always found pleasant anyway. Many touristy areas here are absolutely dreadful and to be avoided. I am available as a private guide.
The symbolism on these objects was really interesting. I saw sacrificed lambs, doves, roses, running legs and other strange things. I repeat, this museum has unusually good documentation. It is in French of course but the staff made it clear to me when they heard me speaking English to my husband that they have documentation available in a variety of languages here. This place is not huge and doesn't overwhelm you except I found myself disoriented after looking at this strange stuff. Very!
It is okay to take photos and clips in here, just don't be a nuisance.
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LEGION OF HONOR MUSEUM
LEGION OF HONROR ///Offert à la ville de San Francisco par Alma de BRETTEVILLE SPRECKELS la pétillante femme du magnat de l'industrie du sucre, le California Palace of the Legion of Honor fut érigé en 1924 sur l'initiative d'Alma, qui souhaitait reproduire le pavillon de la France à l'exposition internationale Panama-Pacific de 1915 lui même inspiré du Palais de la Légion d'Honneur de Paris. Ce musée fut dédié aux 3600 Américains morts au cours de la 1e guerre mondiale. On y trouve notamment un remarquable corpus d'œuvres Européennes traversant 4000 ans, ainsi que le plus riche ensemble de sculptures d'Auguste RODIN (1840 - 1917) en dehors du musée Rodin à Paris. Au fil des années, le musée s'est en outre enrichi de remarquables tableaux et sculptures pré-modernes.. ///////// The Legion of Honor offered to the city of San-Francisco by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, the bubbly wife of a head of the sugar industry, the Legion of Honor was erected in 1924 on the initiative of Alma who wanted to reproduce the Pavilion of France to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 itself inspired by the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Paris. The Museum was dedicated to the 3600 Americans died in the first World War. You can see such an outstanding selection of Europeans works through 4000 years and the richest collection of sculptures by August Rodin (1840 - 1917) also inspired by the Rodin Museum in Paris. Over the years, the Museum has also enriched remarkable paintings and pre-modern sculptures. s/ James Meriochaud 11 Nov. 2014
France's legion of honour: Who makes the cut and how?
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French Legion of Honor Medal to Ray Swindler
Preceding the Corvallis MT Memorial Day Parade May 25, 2015, World War II veteran Ray Swindler received the French Legion of Honor medal from Honorary Consul of France to Montana Laurence Markarian. The ceremony was in front of the parade announcer's stand on the Corvallis Main Street.
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Grand Cross of Legion of Honor, France
Chiang Kai Shek's award.
Room filled with Auguste Rodin sculptures at the Palace of Legion of Honors
Donated by Alma & Adolph Spreckels in the San Francisco museum that she founded.
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Places to see in ( San Francisco - USA ) Legion of Honor
The Legion of Honor is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The name is used both for the museum collection and for the building in which it is housed. Max Hollein currently serves as its Director and CEO. The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels. The building is a full-scale replica, by George Applegarth and H. Guillaume, of the French Pavilion at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, which in turn was a three-quarter-scale version of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur also known as the Hôtel de Salm in Paris, by Pierre Rousseau (1782). At the close of the exposition, which was located just a few miles away, the French government granted Spreckels permission to construct a permanent replica of the French Pavilion, but World War I delayed the groundbreaking until 1921.
The museum building occupies an elevated site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city, with views over the Golden Gate Bridge. Most of the surrounding Lincoln Park Golf Course is on the site of a potter's field called the Golden Gate Cemetery that the City had bought in 1867. The cemetery was closed in 1908 and the bodies were relocated to Colma. During seismic retrofitting in the 1990s, however, coffins and skeletal remains were unearthed.
Between March 1992 and November 1995—its seventy-first anniversary—the Legion underwent a major renovation that included seismic strengthening, building systems upgrades, restoration of historic architectural features, and an underground expansion that added 35,000 square feet. Visitor services and program facilities increased, without altering the historic façade or adversely affecting the environmental integrity of the site. The architects chosen to accomplish this challenging feat were Edward Larrabee Barnes and Mark Cavagnero.
The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first improved road for automobiles across America. The terminus marker and an interpretive plaque are located in the southwest corner of the plaza and fountain, just to the left of the Palace. Dominating the classical plaza is Pax Jerusalemme, a modern sculpture by Mark di Suvero.
The Legion of Honor displays a collection spanning more than 6,000 years of ancient and European art and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a neoclassical building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum contains a representative collection of European art, the largest portion of which is French. Its most distinguished collection is of sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
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Rodin at the California Palace of The Legion of Honor
Auguste Rodin sculptures as exhibited in the Spreckels Gallery at California's Palace of The Legion of Honor. The Legion of Honor houses one of the world's most important collections of Auguste Rodin's works, including The Kiss, and The Thinker. The collection covers all periods of Rodin's career and number more than 80 pieces.
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GENERAL GRUENTHER RECEIVES LEGION OF HONOUR
General Gruenther, Supreme Commander in Europe, was recently honoured when President Coty presented him with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
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Legion of Honor For Stopping Train Attack in French
High decoration to Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler for stopping the train attack in French.
President Francois Hollande on Monday will bestow France's highest decoration, the Legion of Honor, on three Americans and a Briton who subdued a heavily armed gunman aboard a high-speed train on Friday.
The ceremony set for Monday morning in Paris also will include a French citizen who first discovered the gunman near a restroom as the train sped toward Paris. The event is expected to cap two days of near non-stop reporting on an intervention that French officials and anti-terror experts say in all likelihood averted a bloodbath.
Speaking for the first time Sunday, one of the three Americans who overpowered a heavily armed gunman on a high-speed train traveling between Amsterdam and Paris said he thought of his survival, as well as that of everyone else on train, when he tackled the gunman.
Spencer Stone, who was injured in the attack, and fellow Americans Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler spoke to the press from the U.S. Embassy in Paris, describing the rough and tumble takedown of the suspect Friday.
“I feel our training mostly kicked in after the assailant was subdued, frankly, Skarlatos said. When it came to medical care and things like that, and providing security and making sure there wasn’t another shooter. But in the beginning, it was mostly gut instinct.”
Stone said he awoke from a nap to see a man struggling with an assault rifle. It looked like it was jammed and not working, he recounted.
After charging the gunman, a 26-year-old radical Islamist identified by officials as Ayoub El-Khazzani, the three Americans fought with the man until Stone was able to choke him unconscious.
Nobody died in the attack. Skarlatos suggested Khazzani had little experience handling weapons.
“He clearly had no firearms training whatsoever, and yes, if he knew what he was doing — or even just got lucky and did the right thing — he would have been able to operrate through all eight of those magazines and we would have all been in trouble and probably wouldn’t be here today, along with a lot of other people, Skarlatos said.
Stone said he thought about survival, to survive and for everyone on the train to make it.
All three men said the event seemed unreal.
Stone said what happened Friday hasn't really sunk in yet. It feels very unreal, feels like a dream.
French investigators continue to question Khazzani, who is believed to have links to radical Islam and may have travelled to Syria. On Sunday, his lawyer told French TV the assailant is shocked to be linked to terrorism. She says he claims to have found the weapons hidden away and hoped to use them to rob passengers.
French President Francois Hollande thanked U.S. President Barack Obama by telephone Saturday for the exemplary actions of U.S. servicemen Skarletos and Stone, saying they stopped what would have been an extremely serious attack.
Hollande said he plans to meet personally in the coming days with all of those involved in overcoming the would-be attacker.
Skarletos, Stone and American student Sadler were joined by Briton Chris Norman in subduing the Moroccan-born gunman, who seriously wounded at least one passenger before he was swarmed.
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Oct 21, 2012 France_Russian official presents collection of awards to Paris museum
The head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Ivanov, during a visit to Paris, donated a collection of samples of Russian awards to the Museum of the Legion of Honor. The presentation ceremony took place on Friday.
The collection includes 16 orders and dozens of medals.
Among the samples there was the Order for Merit to the Fatherland 1st class, one of the highest state awards of Russia. Former French President Jacques Chirac is one of only a few foreign citizens who received this award.
The Great Day of Annihilation
Architect Oscar Niemeyer receives Legion of Honour
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FILE: Brasilia, Brazil - Recent
1. Brasilia's state plaza designed by Oscar Niemeyer
2. Pan of Brasilia
3. Medium night shot of Planalto Palace
FILE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 24 September, 2007
4. Close up of model drawing of new structure designed by Niemeyer
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Oscar Niemeyer, Architect:
My main concern was to create architecture that was different, that was surprising. I wanted it to be different by my standards. If you look at most of the important art pieces, they are exciting and surprising and provoke those types of reactions for the observer.
FILE: Brasilia, Brazil - Recent
6. Pan of Itamaraty Palace
FILE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 2006
7. Wide night shot of Sambadrome arch during carnival
FILE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - July 2005
8. Pan of Modern Art Museum during Fashion Week
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Oscar Niemeyer, Architect:
The most important things is that an architect must design what he likes, not what others would like him to do. That is my way.
FILE: Niteroi, Brazil - February 2006
10. Pan of Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi
11.Tilt up of Oscar Niemeyer's office building on Copacabana Beach
12. Medium of architect Oscar Niemeyer receiving French Ambassador Antoine Pouillieute in his office
13. Medium of Legion of Honour medal on cushion
14. Close up of medal
15. Close up of Niemeyer
16. Pouillieute presenting Niemeyer with medal
17. Cutaway of architecture models in Niemeyer's office
18. Pouillieute and Niemeyer toasting with champagne
19. Medium of Niemeyer walking towards chair
20. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Oscar Niemeyer, Architect:
I am very pleased to be receiving this honour from France, a people from whom I have received so many favours, so much.
21. Medium of Niemeyer with Pouillieute and Pouillieute's wife
22. SOUNDBITE: (French) Antoine Pouillieute, French Ambassador to Brazil:
It is a personal homage by President Nicholas Sarkozy to present him with this honour on his one hundredth birthday. He has been a genius to the creative world.
FILE: New York, US - Recent
23. Wide of United Nations building
24. Tilt up of UN building
25. Zoom out from UN building
26. Mid of plaque of architects who designed UN building
27. Tilt down plaque to Niemeyer's name
28. Various of UN building
STORYLINE:
The French government honoured the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, with the L�gion d'Honneur medal, France's most prestigious award.
The honour was presented to Niemeyer at his Copacabana office by the French ambassador to Brazil, Antoine Pouillieute.
Niemeyer, who celebrates his one-hundredth birthday on Saturday, lived in exile in France in 1964 after he was forced out of Brazil due to his affiliations with the communist party.
After the decoration, Niemeyer told reporters he was pleased to receive the honour from people from whom I have received so many favours, so much.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907, Niemeyer graduated from Brazil's National School of Fine Arts in 1934 and joined a team that worked with Swiss-born Bauhaus giant Le Corbusier on a new Ministry of Education and Health building.
In 1939, Niemeyer teamed up with Lucio Costa to design the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, for which he was named an honorary citizen of New York by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
However, Brasilia was the place where Niemeyer designed his most influential and well-known buildings.
From the ethereal curves of the government palace to the Alvorada presidential residence, to the white cup-and-dome of the two houses of Congress, and the chapel of concave beams that resembles a chalice, his stamp is everywhere in the city.
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French Hertiage Society interns & James Tissot Exhibition in San Francisco and Paris
Paul Perrin, Curator of Paintings at the Musée d'Orsay, and French Heritage Society interns speak about the upcoming James Tissot Exhibition at the San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum of Fine Arts from October 12th, 2019 - February 9th, 2020 and then at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris from March 24th - July 19th, 2020.
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French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny presents Legion of Honor to US Major General Arthur R. Wilson in World War II
US Army Major General Arthur R. Wilson, Commanding General, Continental Advance Section, and French General of the Army (Général d'armée)Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, seen from rear as they both salute during playing of National Anthem by a French military band at ceremony in World War 2. The Generals review French troops drawn up in formation, presenting arms. Several French officers and an American officer are seen standing against a wall during the proceedings. The marching band passes in review, followed by the troops, as General de Tassigny, along with General Wilson and another American officer, salute. Scene shifts to General Wilson, at attention in front of assembled troops. General de Tassigny proceeds to decorate him with the Legion of Honor and another medal. The troops march away at conclusion of the ceremony. Location: France. Date: 1945.
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French Legion Ceremony - Tri-State Warbird Museum
The French Legion of Honor is an order of distinction first established by Napoleon Bonaparte in May of 1802. It is the highest decoration bestowed in France and is divided into five categories: Chevalier (Knight), Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand Officier (Grand Officer) and Grand Croix (Grand Cross).
Military Ceremony Vendome Column, Paris, France, June 26, 2010.
Military Ceremony Vendome Column, Paris, France June 26, 2010.
Posted in remembrance of Major Philip Kearny (1815-1862) the first American to be awarded the Legion of Honor for military service.
Museum der Fremdenlegion Museum of the French Foreign Legion
Das Museum befindet sich im Hauptquartier der französischen Fremdenlegion im südfranzösischen Aubagne (bei Marseille).
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Legion of Honor Medal awarded to Pop, Pvt. Angelo Monaco, a couple of years ago. One more to add to the many medals awarded to him for his bravery in WW2, Omaha Beach included.