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:
“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The anarchy, assassination, and sacrilege by which the Kingdom of France has been disgraced, desolated, and polluted for some years past cannot but have excited the strongest emotions of horror in every virtuous Briton. But within these days our hearts have been pierced by the recital of proceedings in that country more brutal than any recorded in the annals of the world.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“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)