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It will be there hopely end of this year, the Royal Army Museum will do an exhibition about the Belgian National Orders and specialy about the 175 aniversery of the Order of Leopold. By that occasion normaly the book of our dear Pat will be Publiched, but first there will be a remake of the book of Ren? Cornet, about the l?gislation of the belgian orders, adapted by Pat, with beautifull pictures made by BC. So some day it will be there But my book about the french Imperial orders would be first (no more command on that, ... only that it will be beautifull)

Dear Erik We will in february on that beautifull order I like it very mutch. But I still like the french name of the order Guy

The Order of the Dutch Lion was cald in dutch "Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw" in the south part of the kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830) (Now Belgium) was it cald "Ordre du Lion de Belgique" by the French speaking part. So you can have confussion. But the orders has been created as an Order of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 as a knight order for civilian Merit, earlier that year King Willem I created the "Militaire Willems Orde" (MWO) who was an order for Military merit. After the independance of the sout part of the kingdom in 1830 (Belgium) The kingdom of the Netherlands (the North part) will hold his order system of the 2 orders created by king Willem I, who stayed as king of the Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1830. See her a beautifull drawing of the order of the Belgian Lion out the book of A. Wahlen from 1844.

Nice discution The link from the envelope is the ribbon that belonged to king Albert I Of Belgium, who recieved the Order of the crown from the Chah of Persia in 1926 by the state visite of the Chah of Persia to Belgium http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/colle...e_de_perse.html here the link with the other envelopes http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/colle...bert/index.html I think the link to the french non-official order is the correct one for the ribbon from the first post. This order exist olso in different classes knight, officer, compmander, etc...

I thinck it is the order of the Crown of Persia (Iran) look even at this one http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/colle...ges/Image7.html

Dear Igor take a look at http://users.skynet.be/Belgian.militaria/russia.htm My best regards

Dear Christoph I did a resarch ont hte website of the R?union des Mus?es Nationaux http://www.rmn.fr/ and found the next infotmation http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchT.as...R=500&New=T Je n'ai pas plus de renseignements Guy

Here the plate of decorations in the Chateau de Compi?gne of Napol?on III with his italian d?coration I do not knw why they put the revers of the medals on the buste Guy

Dear Chrisophe, Ont hte Buste they are showing the back of the medal, the same for the french medal d'Italie Guy

The thirth one is the Italaian medal of Military Valor and NOT Saint Helena.

Dear friends I visited the Museum of the L?gion of Honnor in Paris it is FANTASTIC You have to visit it, take a whole afternoon for it and if your compagnon would like to see something else than medals you can send here to visit the Museum d'Orsay (museum of fine art) the enterance is in front of the enterance of the Museum of the L?gion d'honneur

Dear friends The Museum of the Order of the Legion of Honnor in Paris has a new look and will be open agian for the public the 22 Nov 2006 13: Hr More information on http://www.legiondhonneur.fr The museum has been opend last friday official by the president of the French Republic, Mr. J. Chirac her you can see Some pictures

I would even say the military one is made by Heremans and the civilian is made by Wolfers

"The shells and decorations fall randomly on the Juste and the unjust one" O'Grady

It is from the order of Adolf of Nassau from Luxembourg see website medals of the World

Sorry Jacky, I dont have a bigger photo of the medals of verdun, if you want a bigger photo you can asked it at the town of Verdun, here their website http://www.ville-verdun.fr/

Erik, do you olso have the arms of coats ot the town of amsterdam with the medal or a picture of this type of medal ? Guy

Diksmuide (Diksmude) Belgium - flanders was the only belgian town who recieved the great Italian War cross in august 1922as ?citta heroica? by the duce of Aosta, send by Mussolini.

Veurne (Furne) in Belgium (Flanders) ols recieved the Croix de Guerre (France) from the French president Poincar? in 1920

Verdun has been decorated with 26 medals and is the most decorated town of France Croix de la L?gion d?Honneur (avec le droit de la faire figurer sur ses armoiries), Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 avec palme (? la fin de la guerre, la ville est d?cor?e d?une seconde palme), Croix de Saint-Georges (Russie), Military Cross (Grande Bretagne et Irlande), M?daille d?Or de la Valeur Militaire (Italie), Croix de L?opold 1er (Belgique), M?daille d?Or de la Bravoure Militaire (Serbie), M?daille d?Or Obilitch (Mont?n?gro), Grand Cordon de l?Ordre de la Tour et de l?Ep?e (Portugal), Grand Cordon du Tigre Tachet? (Chine), Croix de la Libert? de Premi?re Classe (Estonie), Croix de Guerre de Premi?re Classe(Gr?ce), M?daille de la Vertu Militaire(Roumanie), Croix de Guerre Polonaise(Pologne), M?daille Comm?morative en Or(Etats-Unis d?Am?rique), Ordre de Kin Khan (Annam), Croix de Guerre (Tch?coslovaquie ), Croix de la Couronne de Ch?ne et M?daille des Volontaires Luxembourgeois (Luxembourg), M?daille d?Or de l?Ordre Royal (Cambodge), M?daille du M?rite Militaire Ch?rifien (Maroc), Ordre du Nichan-Iftikhar (Tunisie), Croix de l?Ordre Militaire du Lacplesis (Lettonie), Ordre Royal des Millions d?El?phants et du Parasol Blanc (Laos), Croix de Saint-Charles (Monaco). En1948, la Ville de Verdun se vit d?cerner une citation qui lui valut la Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 avec ?toile d?Argent pour s??tre ? montr?e toujours digne de son glorieux pass? ? et avoir men?, ? par tous les moyens, avec t?nacit?, la lutte contre l?occupant ?.

The Town of Lille (France) Has olso been decorated bij the order of the tower and the Sword of Portugal

Commeoration medals given to towns 1914-1918 Soissons m?daille de l?Aisne Varennes-en-Argonne m?daille de l?Argonne Ramberville m?daille d?Arras Ch?teau-Thi?rry m?daille de l?Artois Meaux m?daille de la Marne Saint-Michel m?daille Saint-Michel P?ronne m?daille de la Somme Nieuport (Belgium) m?daille des Trois Cit?s and m?daille de l?Yser Dixmude(Belgium) m?daille des Trois Cit?s and m?daille de l?Yser Ypres (Belgium) m?daille des Trois Cit?s and m?daille de l?Yser Li?ge (Belgium) m?daille de liege Verdun m?daille de Verdun 1939-1945 Dunkerque m?daille de Dunkerque Gembloux (Belgium) m?daille de Gembloux, m?daille des Flandres et Dunkerque Amiens m?daille de la Somme Metz m?daille de la liberation de Metz Nancy m?daille de la liberation de Nancy

Medal ?de la reconnaissance Fran?aise? French towns Nemasse Thonon Evian Ceret Cerb?re Hochfelden Click here to see the medal

Towns decorated by la Croix de guerre (France) Duinkerque 1914-1918 1939-1945 Ypres (Belgium) 1914-1918 Toulon 1939-1945 Abbeville 1939-1945 Saumur 1939-1945 Paris 1939-1945 Strasbourg 1939-1945 Caen 1939-1945 Lille 1914-1918 1939-1945 Vassieux-en-Vercors 1939-1945 Lorient 1939-1945 Reims 1939-1945 Tarbes 1939-1945 Verduin 1914-1918 1939-1945 Click here to see croix de guerre 1914-1918 Click here to see croix de guerre 1939-1945

18 towns has been decorated by the M?daille de la R?sistance (France) Bethincourt 15/10/1945 Brest 31/3/1947 Caen 24/4/1946 Caniac du Causse 24/4/1946 La Chapelle-en-Vercors 15/10/1945 Lyon 20/11/1946 Marsoulas 31/3/1947 Meximieux 22/9/1945 Montceau-les-Mines 24/4/1946 Nantua 16/1/1947 Territoire de la nouvelle-Caledonie 24/4/1946 Oyonnax 16/1/1947 Plogasnou 31/3/1947 Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte 15/10/1945 Ile de sein 1/1/1946 Tavaux 31/3/1947 Terrou 23/9/1945 Thones 15/10/1945 Click here to see the medal