Live auction - fme_508773 - MUSÉE DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR Plaque commémorative de la légion d’honneur, 1802

MUSÉE DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR

(1802-today)

The Museum of the Legion of Honor and the Orders of Chivalry is a French national museum of art and history devoted to the orders of chivalry and merit, decorations and medals, both French and foreign, created following the implementation place of the Legion of Honor on May 19, 1802. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, in the Hôtel de Salm. This private mansion was built in the last decades of the 18th century according to the plans of Pierre Rousseau, on the initiative of Frédéric III of Salm-Kyrbourg. It became the property of the National Order of the Legion of Honor in 1804, before being remodeled at the end of 1812 under the aegis of the architect Antoine-François Peyre. Since that date, it has housed the seat of the Legion of Honor, then the collections.