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68 towns has been decorated with the L?gion d?honneur L?gion d?honneur French Towns Chalon-sur-Sa?ne 22/5/1815 Tournus 22/5/1815 Saint-Jean-de-Losne 22/5/1815 Roanne 7/5/1864 Ch?teaudun 3/10/1877 Belfort 19/4/1896 Ramberville 19/4/1896 Saint-Quentin 6/6/1897 Dijon 18/5/1899 Paris 9/10/1900 Bazeilles 9/10/1900 Lille 9/10/1900 Valenciennes 9/10/1900 Landrecies 19/10/1900 Saint-Dizier 16/9/1905 P?ronne 3/10/1913 Verduin 12/9/1916 Bitche 14/6/1919 Reims 4/7/1919 Dunkerque 9/8/1919 Strasbourg 14/8/1919 Phalsbourg 14/8/1919 Arras 30/8/1919 Lens 30/8/1919 Cambrai 13/9/1919 Douai 13/9/1919 Longwy 20/9/1919 Bapaume 10/10/1919 Nancy 11/10/1919 Metz 27/10/1919 B?thune 5/12/1919 Soissons 15/1/1920 Thionville 15/1/1920 Noyon 11/7/1920 Ch?teau-Thierry 17/7/1920 Montdidier 22/9/1924 Nomeny 28/9/1928 Badonviller 20/4/1929 Gerbeville 23/7/1930 Pont-?-Mousson 21/8/1930 Longuyon 21/8/1930 Audun-le-Roman 21/8/1930 Albert 15/4/1932 Boulogne-sur-Mer 10/7/1947 Calais 10/7/1947 Brest 9/2/1948 Abbeville 2/6/1948 Amiens 2/6/1948 Caen 2/6/1948 Saint-L? 2/6/1948 Saint-Malo 8/7/1948 Falaise 21/8/1948 Evreux 27/8/1948 Argentan 28/2/1949 Ascq 28/2/1949 Etobon 28/2/1949 Le Havre 28/2/1949 Lorient 28/2/1949 Lyon 28/2/1949 Oradour-sur-Glan 28/2/1949 Rouen 28/2/1949 Saint-Di? 28/2/1949 Saint-Nazaire 28/2/1949 Beavais 1957 L?gion d?honneur to No French towns Li?ge (Belgium) 7/8/1914 Belgrado (Serbia) 28/12/1920 Luxembourg 1957 Stalingrad (Russia) 1984

The Companion of the Liberation Communities NANTES by decree, 11 November 1941. GRENOBLE by decree, 4 May 1944. PARIS by decree, 24 March 1945. VASSIEUX-EN-VERCORS by decree, 4 August 1945. ILE DE SEIN by decree, 1 January 1946. Click here for more info (official website of the Order of Liberation)

The Town of Li?ge (Belgium) Who stopped the first german attack in august 1914 Croix de Guerre italienne, Croix de Guerre belge 1940 avec palme, Croix de la L?gion d'Honneur M?daille militaire pour la bravoure, en or, du Royaume des Serbes see here olso the photo of the offical cerimony for the L?gion d'honneur, given to the town in 1914 after the first WW with king Albert and Queen Elisabeth, President Pointcar? and Mar?chal Foch of France

The seller redrawed his object , this morning it was at 600 euro, probably someone did him an offer and he ended his auction, it is a pitty, i had liked to know witch price it would go

on the website of Galerie Histoire & Curiosit? you can see a beautifull model of London wit the second model of ribbon

Dear Chris the model brazaville is a little smaller than the model of london, and has only stripes on the sword in one direction. The decoration is olso havyer like you can see on the picture above. These models where mode localy in Congo Brazaville, don't verget it was wartime, and if some one had to be decorated, the medal had to be there, it was not always simple to get one of London. more information about the model London and the ribbon see on website of the order of liberation

On eBay France is at the moment in auction a first model (Called model of London) of the Order of liberation with the first model of ribbon, Click Here to see But the Price is raising very quicly, at noon it started at 30 euro, now it is already at 300 euro the photos are from the auction on ebay.fr

Dear Paul Thank you for the information, if I'am well informd the Meiji periode is from 1868 until 1912. so this object can be date in this periode. Do you have an idea what the symbols are from the periode 1912 until 1945 Thanks Guy

and the inscription in the box (inside) from previous juwel and plate

and the next one

Can somebody help me with the folow inscriptions (periode, date) Thanks

Nice paper

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Luxery medal 5th Republic

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Luxery model 4th republic made by Arthus Bertrand (marked AB & Cie)

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Luxery model 3 repuplic made by Adrian Chobillon (marked AC)

I dont know the maker, the letters in de mark are "R J" I didnt findt this initiales back on the website Cataloge d'orf?vres, de peintres-verriers, d'architectes Guy

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