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	California Palace of the Legion of Honor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California.
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor (often abbreviated to simply Legion of Honor by locals) is a fine-art museum in San Francisco, California.
		The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of Legion of Honor is the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental highway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Palace_of_the_Legion_of_Honor (442 words)

	Embassy of France in the US - Legion of Honor
		The Legion of Honor is awarded, as we have said, for all kinds of achievement.
		Foremost among collective honors are those for service under the flag, symbol of the patrie and the very embodiment of the regiment; it seems only just that the regimental flag should bear the insignia of the Legion of Honor earned through the heroism and feats of arms of the soldiers who are its defenders.
		Paris was awarded the Legion of Honor on October 9, 1900 by decree of President Loubet.
	www.ambafrance-us.org /atoz/legion_awar.asp (343 words)

	Legion of Honor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legion of Honor, one of the highest decorations awarded by the Philippines
		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor fine art museum in San Francisco, whose building is based upon the Paris Palais de la Légion d'honneur
		In the Halo universe A medal called the Legion of Honor is the UNSCs highest award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legion_of_Honour_(disambiguation) (185 words)

	Embassy of France in the US - Legion of Honor
		The home of the Legion of Honor is still the Salm Palace, facing the Quai d'Orsay, which is widely admired by visitors to Paris.
		Built just before the Revolution by the architect Pierre Rousseau for the German Prince Salm-Kyrbourg, the handsome edifice was purchased in the name of the Legion of Honor on May 4, 1804 by Grand Chancellor Lacépède.
		Entrance to the palace is through a monumental arch on the rue de Lille and a colonnaded court of honor and formal garden.
	www.info-france-usa.org /atoz/legion_pala.asp (249 words)

	Legion of Honor Building Replica in San Francisco
		A replica of the original Legion of Honor building (Palais de la Legion d'Honneur) in Paris serves as an art museum in San Francisco.
		This pavilion, in a sense, was the model of the present Legion of Honor building in San Francisco.
		To seismically strengthen the museum, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, during its seventy-first anniversary, underwent a major renovation between March 1992 and November 11, 1995
	www.napoleon-series.org /research/miscellaneous/c_legion.html (712 words)

	California Palace of the Legion of Honor
		Built to commemorate the 3,600 Californian soldiers who died in World War I, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a beautiful Beaux-arts building housing a fine-art collection in San Francisco, California.
		From April of 1992 to November of 1995 the California Palace of the Legion of Honor underwent an extensive renovation intended to not only restore the building’s original interior appearance, but also to expand and improve its facilities, both structurally and architecturally, to meet the demands of the 21st century.
		Memorabilia related to California Palace of the Legion of Honor is at auction on eBay.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2578.html (566 words)

	CA Palace of the Legion of Honor
		at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
		The Florence Gould Theater opened at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1924.
		The ceiling of the 333-seat jewel-box theater boasts an elaborate mural, The Apotheosis of the California Soldier, painted in 1924 by Spanish artist and decorator Julio Villa y Prades.
	www.omniconcerts.com /venueslegion.html (228 words)

	The Legion's Back
		While it's officially the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, some drop the "California." Others call it the "Legion of Honor." Locals generally call it 'the Legion." Under any name it's a Francophile's treasure that, with its contents, almost makes up for the manners of Paris taxi drivers.
		The Legion, a wonderful representation of the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris, built to "honor the dead while serving the living" with the statue in the center of its columnar courtyard, opened up on Armistice Day, November 11, 1924.
		Happily, on my last visit to the Legion before the restoration I watched a tall, blond lady with expressive hands explaining the fine points of a 17th Century painting of John the Baptist to a typically multicultural audience of school children.
	www.finetravel.com /unitedstates/california/thelegion.htm (961 words)

	Palace of The Legion of Honor- San Francisco, CA - VirtualTourist.com
		The Palace of the Legion of Honor has a majestic setting and that is what brought me to this admitted impressive looking museum.
		Palace of The Legion of Honor: View from the Palace of Legion of Honor
		Palace of The Legion of Honor: Palace of the Legion of Honour
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/California/San_Francisco-755471/Things_To_Do-San_Francisco-Palace_of_The_Legion_of_Honor-BR-1.html (1033 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Legion of Honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LEGION OF HONOR [Legion of Honor] see decorations, civil and military.
		LA VIE EN ROUGE.(Pauline Trigere is honored with the Legion of Honor)(Brief Article)
		Army Nurse Corps Col. Julia Boland Paparella (Ret.), MSEd, MSLS, RN, associate professor emerita of the College of Nursing, Villanova University, was awarded the Legion of Honor by the government of France for her participation in the liberation of France during the D-Day invasion of June 1944.(Faculty Notes)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-l1egionh1o.asp (286 words)

	Palace of the Legion of Honor. Interactive Tour around.
		• Located in the Lincoln Park it was designed after the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris and built between 1920-1924 as a museum by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels.
		Approaching the Palace, you san pass it on the left side.
		Any use, copying of images, or their parts, or any other content including but not limited to any text in the html files without permission is prohibited.
	www.virtuar.com /ysf2/ap-Legion.htm (367 words)

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		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco is an exact replica and sister institution of the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris which Napoleon used to honor French soldiers.
		Dedicated on November 11, 1924, Adolph and Alma Spreckles gave the California Palace of the Legion of Honor to the people of San Francisco in honor of the Californians who died in the First World War.
		The Book of Gold was on display in the vestibule of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor until 1941 when it was then put in the museum archives for safekeeping.
	www.legionofhonor.org /legion/about/subpage.asp?subpagekey=510&relatedsubpagekey=12 (401 words)

	San Francisco - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - Museum - AOL CityGuide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Palace of the Legion of Honor was founded in 1924 by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her sugar-magnate husband, Adolph.
		The Palace of the Legion of Honor has the most spectacular site of any museum in the world.
		Palace of the Legion of Honor is magnificent.
	cityguide.aol.com /sanfrancisco/entertainment/venue.adp?sbid=62283 (403 words)

	Transit.511.org - Popular Destinations
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a fine arts museum a representative collection of mainly European art.
		The Legion is most noted for its breathtaking setting in Lincoln Park with views over the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Legion of Honor Dr. at El Camino del Mar Drive Entrance at 34th Av.
	www.transitinfo.org /Destinations/detail.asp?did=93 (80 words)

	DAYBREAK - Night at the Legion a Celebration of Creativity
		A limited number of tickets for members of the UCSF campus are still available for the event, which will include wine, food and docent-led tours of permanent collections at the museum, which recently reopened after a $34 million renovation.
		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is located at 34th Avenue and Clement Street in Lincoln Park.
		Tickets for UCSF Night at the Legion are $10 for students, $15 staff and $20 for faculty.
	www.ucsf.edu /daybreak/1997/09/918_legi.htm (547 words)

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		The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, founded in 1972 with the merger of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the H. de Young Memorial Museum, offer Northern Californians an overview of artistic achievement spanning ancient times to the present.
		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, a three-quarter-scale adaptation of the 18th century Palais de la Légion d’Honneur in Paris, opened in 1924.
		European art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century is featured at the Legion of Honor, which also houses Ancient art and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts.
	www.rmn.fr /frame/frame-gb/02musees/sanfrancisco-gb.html (711 words)

	Polish "Splendor' in town / Legion of Honor show includes rare da Vinci
		She's the star of the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland," which opened Saturday at the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
		The Czartoryski estates were seized by the Russians during the unsuccessful Polish uprising of 1830-31, but not before Madame Czartoryska smuggled out the art and had it hidden in Sieniawa.
		Tuesday-Sunday through May 18 at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, 34th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/09/PK52416.DTL (1026 words)

	BORROWED GLORY / SFMOMA and the Palace of the Legion of Honor show off the stellar Anderson collection
		The Andersons have enriched the Legion show further with the loan of a dozen pieces bought since 1996, including Jasper Johns' 1987 mixed-media series ``The Seasons'' and Roy Lichtenstein's 1996 lithograph ``Landscape With Poet,'' a pop art translation of a Chinese scroll painting that radiates his distinctive comic intelligence.
		The drawings at SFMOMA put pressure on the works across town in ``An American Encounter.'' For the question that shadows the Legion show is whether a given graphic work is a market-propelled spin-off of an artist's primary output or something with the feel of internal artistic necessity.
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/05/DD104201.DTL (1033 words)

	San Francisco-California Palace of the Legion of Honor
		The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, recently renovated and expanded, is one of the most dramatic museums in the country.
		Set on a headland where the Pacific Ocean spills into the San Francisco Bay, the Legion is a replica of the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur in Paris where Napoleon first established his new civil and military order.
		It was given to the people of San Francisco by Mr.
	www.cityinsights.com /sfpalace.htm (102 words)

	Filming Locations for Vertigo
		Madeleine is obsessed by the portrait of Carlotta: Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln park, San Francisco
		Situated between China and Ocean Beaches on San Franciscoís northwesterly tip, itís the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Legion of Honor Drive in
		A twin of the Legion díHonneur in Paris, the gallery houses a rather more impressive collection of paintings than Carlotta Valdesí kitschy portrait, including works by Rembrandt, Titian, Monet, Renoir and Degas along with one of the worldís finest collections of Rodin sculptures.
	www.movie-locations.com /intromovies/vertigo.html (489 words)

	Arnold Genthe / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California / 1927
		Arnold Genthe / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California / 1927
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
		This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico36281-85845.html (291 words)

	Gottfried Helnwein \| NEWS \| News Update \| GOTFRIED HELNWEIN: THE CHILD - ONE MAN SHOW, FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The presentation at the Legion of Honor of The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein marks the first one-man museum showing in the United States of the work of Internationally-known Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein (b.
		In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor, deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation.
		A new exhibit called "The Child," through Nov. 28 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, presents images of distressed, wounded or threatened children, a topic that has fascinated Helnwein for years.
	www.helnwein.com /news/update/artikel_634.html (2362 words)

	Land's End near Palace of the Legion of Honor. Interactive Tour
		Land's End near Palace of the Legion of Honor.
		• You are at El Camino del Mar. Palace of the Legion of Honor is not very far behind.
		The Palace is behind the golf course on the left.
	www.virtuar.com /ysf2/ap-Land-end.htm (148 words)

	Legion of Honor, San Francisco - Reviews of Legion of Honor - IgoUgo
		Museums and Galleries 1 Legion of Honor Drive (Lincoln Park), San Francisco, 94129, +1 415 750 3600 Amenities
		It is spectacularly located at the top of a hill, inside a park/golf course with views of the Pacific Ocean and downtown San Francisco.
		Maybe we were simply not in the mood for art and culture, but on the whole, the most impressive part of the visit was the view of San Francisco while strolling down the hill, back to the car.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=40959 (779 words)

	California Palace of the Legion of Honor \| Museum/Attraction Review \| San Francisco \| Frommers.com
		California Palace of the Legion of Honor
		Designed as a memorial to California's World War I casualties, this neoclassical structure is an exact replica of the Legion of Honor Palace in Paris, right down to the inscription HONNEUR ET PATRIE above the portal.
		The Legion of Honor reopened in late 1995, after a 2-year, $35-million renovation and seismic upgrading.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/sanfrancisco/A25173.html (277 words)

	Tale of Two Museums: SF's Legion of Honor and de Young
		The Legion of Honor is a beautiful facility, but the space that they use for special shows is relatively small for such a popular artist.
		As we were leaving the Legion of Honor, we realized that our paid admission also allowed us entry to the de Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum, both in Golden Gate Park.
		Please visit the Legion of Honor or the de Young Museum web site for more information.
	www.artagogo.com /reviews/famsf/famsf.htm (1171 words)

	Scenic San Francisco -pictures of Twin Peaks,Alamo Square, Lincoln Park, Beaches photos
		China and Baker Beaches and The Palace of the Legion of Honor
		Lands End is also where you will find the Lincoln Park Golf Course and The Palace of The Legion of Honor Museum which was was founded by Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her husband, sugar baron Adolph B. Spreckels, in the early 1920s and has recently undergone a major renovation and expansion.
		Visit the California Palace of The Legion of Honor Museum with San Francisco CityPass.
	www.inetours.com /Pages/SFNbrhds/Scenic_SF.html (579 words)

	Memory and Media
		First stop: Palace of the Legion of Honor, at "lands end" near the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Constructed on a remote site known as Land's End--one of the most beautiful settings imaginable for any museum--the California Palace of the Legion of Honor was completed in 1924, and on Armistice Day of that year its doors opened to the public.
		In keeping with the wishes of the donors, to "honor the dead while serving the living," it was accepted by the city of San Francisco as a museum of fine arts dedicated to the memory of the 3,600 California men who had lost their lives on the battlefields of
	www.stanford.edu /class/english12sc/htmls/field_trip.html (1235 words)

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