France
- See also :Ribbons of the French military and civil awards
- Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (since 1802)
- Ordre de la Libération (1940–1946)
- Médaille militaire (since 1852)
- Ordre national du Mérite (since 1963)
- Croix de Guerre
- Croix de guerre 1914-1918
- Croix de guerre 1939-1945
- Croix de guerre des Théatres d'Opérations Exterieures
- Croix de la Valeur Militaire
- Médaille de la Gendarmerie nationale
- Médaille de la Résistance
- Médaille des évadés
- Croix du combattant
- Croix du combattant volontaire
- Croix du combattant volontaire 1914-1918
- Croix du combattant volontaire 1939-1945
- Croix du combattant volontaire de la Résistance
- Ordre du mérite agricole
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Famous quotes containing the word france:
“In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.”
—Jules Mazarin (1602–1661)
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The bugle-call to arms again sounded in my war-trained ear, the bayonets gleamed, the sabres clashed, and the Prussian helmets and the eagles of France stood face to face on the borders of the Rhine.... I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)