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This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of France. Some like the Legion of Honour are awarded to both the armed forces and civilians. Others are decorations of a pure civilian or military character. 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.

National orders[]

Legion of Honour	Order of Liberation	National Order of Merit

Order of Academic Palms	Order of Arts and Letters	Order of Agricultural Merit	Order of Maritime Merit
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Civilian distinctions[]

Insignia for wounded civilians	Honour medal of the National Police	Honour medal for firefighters	Honour medal for courage and devotion	Medal of the French Family	Honour medal of railroads

Honour medal for work	Regional, departmental and municipal honour medal	Honour medal for youth, sports and associative engagements	Honour medal for civilian personnel of the defense ministry - ARMY	Honour medal for civilian personnel of the defense ministry - NAVY	Honour medal for civilian personnel of the defense ministry - AIR FORCE

Military decorations[]

Military Medal	War Cross (1914–1918)	War Cross (1939–1945)	War Cross for foreign operational theaters	Cross for Military Valour	Medal of the Gendarmerie nationale
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Resistance Medal	Escapees' Medal	Volunteer combatant's cross 1914–1918	Volunteer combatant's cross	Cross of the resistance volunteer combatant	Combatant's Cross

Aeronautical Medal	Overseas Medal	Medal for voluntary military service	National Defence Medal	Insignia for the Military Wounded	Military Health Service honour medal
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Commemorative medals[]

19th century[]

Saint Helena Medal	Commemorative medal of the 1859 Italian Campaign	Commemorative medal of the 1860 China Expedition	Commemorative medal of the Mexico Expedition (1862)	Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War

First Madagascar campaign medal 1883	Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal 1883–1885	Dahomey Expedition commemorative medal 1892	Second Madagascar campaign medal 1894–1895	Colonial Medal

1900–1914[]

1901 China expedition commemorative medal	Morocco commemorative medal (1909)

1st World War (1914–1918)[]

1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal	1914–1918 Commemorative war medal	Dardanelles campaign medal	Orient campaign medal

Medal of French Gratitude	Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War	Medal for victims of the invasion

Between the two wars (1918–1939)[]

Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal

Second World War (1939–1945)[]

1939–1945 Commemorative war medal	1943–1944 Italian campaign medal	Medal of a liberated France

Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France	Deportation for acts of resistance medal	Internment for acts of resistance medal	Political deportation medal	Political internment medal	Defaulter's medal

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After 1945[]

United Nations operations in Korea commemorative medal	Indochina Campaign commemorative medal	Middle East operations commemorative medal (1956)	North Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal	North Africa medal (1997)	French commemorative medal

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon medal	Medal of the Nation's Gratitude (2002)
Médaille de la FINUL (recto)

Abolished or dormant Orders[]

Ministerial Orders[]

Order of Combatant Merit	Order of Military Merit	Order of Civil Merit	Order of Social Merit	Order of Working Merit

Order of Touristic Merit	Order of the National Economy	Order of Commercial & Industrial Merit	Order of Artisanal Merit	Order of Public Health

Order of Postal Merit	Order of Sporting Merit

Colonial Orders[]

Indochinese Order of Merit	Saharan Order of Merit	Order of the Black Star	Order of the Star of Anjouan	Order of Nichan el Anouar

Order of the Dragon of Annam	Royal Order of Cambodia	Order of Tahiti Nui

See also[]

Ribbons of the French military and civil awards

Orders, decorations and medals of France

National Orders

Ministry Orders

Military medals

Other military distinctions

Commemorative medals

19th century	Saint Helena Medal Commemorative medal of the 1859 Italian Campaign Commemorative medal of the 1860 China Expedition Commemorative medal of the Mexico Expedition Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal Commemorative medal of the Dahomey Expedition Madagascar commemorative medal Colonial Medal

1900–1914	1901 China expedition commemorative medal Morocco commemorative medal (1909)

First World War 1914–1918	Médaille Interalliée 1914–1918 Médaille commémorative de la bataille de Verdun Médaille de la Marne Médaille commémorative de la bataille de la Somme Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918 Médaille de la Reconnaissance française

Interwar Period 1918–1939	Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal Dardanelles campaign medal Orient campaign medal Médaille de la Fidélité Française Médaille des victimes de l'invasion Medal for civilian prisoners, hostages and prisoners of the 1914-1918 Great War

Second World War 1939–1945	Médaille commémorative de la bataille de la Somme Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France 1943-1944 Italian Campaign medal Medal for deportation and internment for acts of resistance Deportation and political internment medal Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1939–1945 Medal of a liberated France $Medaille (Insigne) du Refractaire ribbon$ Defaulter's medal

Since 1945	United Nations operations in Korea commemorative medal Indochina Campaign commemorative medal Middle East operations commemorative medal (1956) Médaille commémorative des opérations de sécurité et de maintien de l'ordre en Afrique du Nord North Africa medal United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon medal French commemorative medal

Extinguished Orders

Ministry Orders	Ordre du Mérite combattant Ordre du Mérite militaire

Colonial Orders	Ordre du Mérite Indochinois Ordre du Mérite saharien Ordre de l'Étoile Noire Ordre de l'Étoile d'Anjouan Ordre du Nichan el Anouar Ordre du Dragon d'Annam Ordre royal du Cambodge

Orders, decorations, and medals by country

Highest by country: civilian awards
military decorations
- wound decorations
- prisoner of war decorations
scouting awards

Africa

Algeria Angola Botswana Burundi Cameroon Democratic Republic of the Congo Eswatini Ethiopia Egypt The Gambia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Malawi Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Orders, decorations, and medals of the Republic of the Congo) Rwanda Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic¹ Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Somaliland¹ South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Former	Bophuthatswana¹ Ciskei¹ Rhodesia¹ South West Africa Transkei¹ Venda¹ Zanzibar

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Barbados Bolivia Brazil Canada Provinces Chile Colombia Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Grenada Guyana Jamaica Mexico Military Nicaragua Paraguay Peru Trinidad and Tobago United States Civil Military Police Uruguay Venezuela

Former	Mexican Empire

Asia

Bangladesh (Military) Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong Macau India Civil Military Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Self-Defense Force Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Laos Malaysia States Maldives Mongolia Myanmar North Korea Oman Pakistan Civil Military Palestine¹ Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Civil Military Police Taiwan¹ Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

Former	British Raj Imperial Orders Kaisar-i-Hind Medal Korean Empire Manchukuo South Vietnam South Yemen

Europe

European Union Abkhazia¹ Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Civil Military Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Military States Greece Holy See Hungary Ireland Military Italy Kosovo¹ Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Cyprus¹ Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain South Ossetia¹ Sovereign Military Order of Malta Sweden Switzerland Transnistria¹ Turkey Ukraine Military United Kingdom Military

Former	Artsakh¹ Austria-Hungary Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgarian People's Republic Czechoslovakia Germany Empire German states Nazi East Independent State of Croatia Kingdom of Italy Italian states Kingdom of Hungary Hungarian People's Republic Polish People's Republic Kingdom of Romania Socialist Republic of Romania Yugoslavia Kingdom SFR FR Soviet Union Republics

Oceania

Australia Kiribati Fiji New Zealand Niue Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu

Former	Hawaii

¹Partially recognised country

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