Honneur Collection

Colonel Rollet, French Foreign Legion, France, WW1
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Frederic Rollet (1875-1941), General in the French Foreign Legion, Regiment de Marche. Seen here during the First World War, probably at Verdun, northern France

Opera / Paris / 1905 / Inside
The main staircase of the Paris Opera House called l escalier d Honneur. Date: circa 1900

BONNAIRE DEGRADED
One of Napoleon's officers, Jean-Gerard Bonnaire is stripped of his Legion d'honneur in place Vendome, Paris, and condemned to prison where he dies two months later Date: 8 June 1816

BALL, SAINT PETERSBURG
Tsar Alexander III and the Tsarina watch the Quadrille dHonneur - HIS honour - at a ball at the French Embassy, St Petersburg Date: 1893

FRENCH CAVALRYMAN HIT
GARDES DHONNEUR 3rd regiment (It is surely very unusual for a costume illustration to show the soldier in the process of being hit !) Date: 1854

FRENCH IN DAHOMEY
The French tricouleur is borne proudly into the smoking city of Abomey, Dahomey - Honneur aux braves soldats ! Vive la France ! Date: 1892

Reginald Alexander John Warneford, RNAS pilot
Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Alexander John Warneford (1892-1915), RNAS pilot who was awarded the VC and the Legion d Honneur. Date: circa 1915

Abbas II Hilmi. Viceroy of Egypt, 1892
ABBAS II HILMI (1874-1944). Viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914). The Marquis de Reverseux gives to the new Khedive (Viceroy) the Grand Cordon of the Legion d Honneur in Cairo

Rosa Bonheur - French Artist
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (18221899) - French animaliere, realist artist, and sculptor. Date: 1882

Amedee Courbet - French Naval Admiral
Anatole-Amedee-Prosper Courbet (18271885) - French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign (18836) and the Sino-French War (1884-5). Date: 1880

Un peuple est sans honneur, et merite ses chaines Quand il baisse le front sons le sceptre des reines. Print shows a nude woman pulling back the curtain to a tent to reveal a female figure or mermaid

Brie Shepherd Dog at 1863 Paris dog show
The Brie (Briard) Shepherd Dog, named Charmante, belonging to M Janet, winner of the prix d honneur at the 1863 Paris dog show. Date: 1863

Brie Shepherd Dogs at 1865 Paris dog show
Brie (Briard) Shepherd Dogs, including puppies, belonging to M Teyssier des Farges, winner of the prix d honneur at the 1865 Paris dog show. Date: 1865

Events / Africa / Dahomey
The French tricouleur is borne proudly into the smoking city of Abomey, Dahomey - Honneur aux braves soldats ! Vive la France ! Date: 1892

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