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The Société Honoraire de Français (French National Honor Society) is an organization whose intent is to recognize high school students in the United States who have maintained excellent grades in at least three semesters of French language courses; this is done by induction into the organization.
Order of the Merit of Indochina (French:Ordre du Mérite Indochinois"). France had also not enough in the fatherland with the Legion of Honor. The various ministries therefore proposed that they themselves managed and issued orders to: National Order of Agricultural Merit (French: "l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole") 1883; Order of Maritime Merit ...
French painter Knight (1908) [25] Sonia Delaunay: 1885 – 1979 French artist Officer (1975) [citation needed] Alain Delon: 1935 – Present French actor (1960s-1970s) and businessman. Knight (21 February 1991) Officer (25 March 2005) [26] Eugène Deloncle: 1890 – 1944 French fascist leader and former naval engineer. Recognised for his ...
The Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) is an order of knighthood of France for academics and cultural and educational figures. The early Palmes académiques was instituted on 17 March 1808 and was only awarded to teachers or professors.
Founded as a departmental honor society for French at the University of California, Berkeley in 1906, Pi Delta Phi is the oldest collegiate academic honor society for a modern foreign language in the United States. After many years as a local organization, Pi Delta Phi reorganized and declared itself the National French Honor Society in 1920.
Number [a] Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference 1: Alpha of Virginia: December 5, 1776 –1780, 1851–1860, 1893: College of William & Mary ...
The order was established to replace the number of ministerial orders previously awarded by numerous ministries, and to create an award for French citizens as well as foreign nationals for distinguished civil or military achievements, though of a lesser level than that required for the award of the Legion of Honour.
Only four of the 19 Ministerial orders have survived the reform of the French system of decorations in 1963. The others were replaced by the Ordre national du Mérite. The Grand Chancery of the Legion of Honour classifies the national system of honours of France into two categories: those honours awarded on behalf of the President of the ...