Orders, decorations, and medals of France

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
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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
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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
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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
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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 1862 Mexico Expedition	Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War
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First Madagascar campaign medal 1883	Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal 1883–1885	Dahomey Expedition commemorative medal 1892	Second Madagascar campaign medal 1894–1895	Colonial Medal
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1900–1914

1901 China expedition commemorative medal	Morocco commemorative medal (1909)
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1st World War (1914–1918)

1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal	1914–1918 Commemorative war medal	Dardanelles campaign medal	Orient campaign medal
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Medal of French Gratitude	Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War	Medal for victims of the invasion
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Between the two wars (1918–1939)

Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal
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Second World War (1939–1945)

1939–1945 Commemorative war medal	1943–1944 Italian campaign medal	Medal of a liberated France
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Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France	Deported for acts of resistance medal	Interned for acts of resistance medal	Political deportee's medal	Political internee's 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	North Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal	North Africa medal	French commemorative medal
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United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon medal	Medal of the Nation's Gratitude
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
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Order of Touristic Merit	Order of the National Economy	Order of Commercial & Industrial Merit	Order of Artisanal Merit	Order of Public Health
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Order of Postal Merit	Order of Sporting Merit
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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
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Order of the Dragon of Annam	Royal Order of Cambodia	Order of Tahiti Nui
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See also

• Ribbons of the French military and civil awards