Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ]), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes.
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Colette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novels and life of one of the most remarkable writers of the last century, whose Claudine series was first published under her husband's name.
27 January 2022
Featuring: Diana Holmes, Michèle Roberts, Belinda Jack
Culture19th-century French novelists, 19th-century French women writersBisexual memoiristsFrench bisexual women, French bisexual writers20th-century French women writersGrand Officers of the Legion of HonourFrench LGBTQ novelistsBisexual journalistsBurials at Père Lachaise Cemetery20th-century French novelists19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ peopleBisexual women writersBisexual novelistsFrench women novelistsPierre-Simon Laplace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician who tackled questions on the stability of the Solar System and planet rotation and devised the basis for metrication
8 April 2021
Featuring: Marcus du Sautoy, Timothy Gowers, Colva Roney-Dougal
HistoryFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench physicistsLinear algebraistsFellows of the Royal SocietyGrand Officers of the Legion of HonourMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench agnosticsFrench fluid dynamicists, French mathematicians, French probability theoristsMembers of the Académie Française18th-century French mathematiciansMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMembers of the French Academy of SciencesFrench deistsDeterminists