Images of Museum of the Legion of Honor
Museum of the Legion of Honor and its collection
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The Museum of the Legion of Honor (Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie) is a museum of orders of merit and orders of chivalry, housed in the Hôtel de Salm, built in 1782 by architect Pierre Rousseau for Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg, in Paris. The collection of the museum includes the history of France's honours, medals, decorations, and chivalric orders from the time of King Louis XI to the present. A small section in the Museum of the Legion of Honor in paris is dedicated to foreign orders.
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