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		The first documented case is that of Marie-Angélique Duchemin (1772-1859), who fought in the Revolutionary Wars, received a military disability pension in 1798, the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1822, and the Legion of Honor in 1852.
		Traditionally, French women on whom the Légion d'Honneur or other order is conferred use the title "chevalier." However, a recipient of the Ordre National du Mérite recently requested from the order's Chancery the permission to call herself "chevalière" and the request was granted (AFP dispatch, Jan 28, 2000).
		Her daughter received the same honour in 1872, and granddaughter in 1910.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/wom-kn.htm (1455 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Belgium
		In the meanwhile, the priests who had not made the declaration continued to exercise their priestly functions in the Belgian provinces, and the tribunal of La Dyle acquitted those who were brought before it.
		Named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Bishop de Broglie declined on the plea of being unable in conscience to take the oath to maintain the territorial integrity of the Empire which thenceforth would comprise the States of the Church.
		The same secrecy was preserved in the deliberations of the Congress as in the Lodges, from which it originated, and the only knowledge its proceedings was to be gained from the programme which it published.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02395a.htm (12864 words)

	History
		Knights appointed up to the end of the 19th century included (in 1853) Admiral Alphonse Hamelin, who commanded the Black Sea squadron during the Crimean War, became Minister for the Navy and was Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour when he died in 1860.
		A man of letters, he founded the Association of Parliamentary Journalists and was the director of the Revue Internationale, dying in 1914.
		He was a great Francophile and a Commander of the Legion of Honour.
	www.st-lazarus.net /pariso/history.html (4793 words)

	ARC :: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) :: Page 1 of 2
		He was working at the same time on the decorations of the Pavillon de Flore, of which the pediment alone was seen at the Salon, though the bas-relief below is an even better example of his style.
		After producing a statue of the prince imperial, Carpeaux was made chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1866.
		Carpeaux, though exhausted by illness, continued designing indefatigably, till he died at the Château de Bécon [PIC], near Courbevoie, on the 12th of October 1875, after being promoted to the higher grade of the Legion of Honour.
	www.artrenewal.org /asp/database/art.asp?aid=629 (716 words)

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		On reviving he reported his experience whilst ‘dead’ in such a way as to provide fodder for those who thought the famous atheist had recanted and found God.
		By this time he had become something of a philosophical Grand Old Man, with volumes published in his honour, and a full-length critical study by John Foster in the prestigious Routledge “arguments of the philosophers” series.
		He spent most of the remaining couple of years responding to articles that were to appear in the Ayer volume in the Library of Living Philosophers series, edited by L.E. Hahn.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/ayer (6791 words)

	Coachbult.com - Weymann American
		During the War, he worked for the French airplane manufacturer Nieuport as a test pilot.
		Now a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and recipient of the Croix de Guerre, he stayed in his adopted homeland after the Armistice.
		Weymann’s background in aviation led him to develop a flexible automobile body based on aircraft design principles and by 1921 he had built his first motor vehicle body prototype in his small Carrosserie Weymann at No. 20 Rue Troyon in Paris.
	www.coachbuilt.com /bui/w/weymann/weymann.htm (5623 words)

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