Legion of Honour
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The National Order of the Legion of Honour, formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained by all later French governments and regimes.
Current version of the Grand Cross of the order given by President René Coty to Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees
First Légion d'Honneur investiture, 15 July 1804, at Saint-Louis des Invalides by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1812)
A depiction of Napoleon making some of the first awards of the Legion of Honour, at a camp near Boulogne on 16 August 1804
![As Emperor, Napoleon always wore the Cross and Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour.[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Napoleon_Paul_Delaroche.jpg/500px-Napoleon_Paul_Delaroche.jpg)
As Emperor, Napoleon always wore the Cross and Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour.[citation needed]
Emperor of the French
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Emperor of the French was the title of the monarch and supreme ruler of the First and the Second French Empires.
"The Four Napoleons", 1858 propaganda image depicting Napoleon I, Napoleon II, Napoleon III, and Louis-Napoléon
Image: Jacques Louis David The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries Google Art Project