Questions-Answers
  PROPOSITIONS
 
  1) What are the conditions for proposal?
 
 
2) What are the conditions for proposal?
 
 
3) How are proposals made and by whom?
 
4) I would like point someone out – who should I contact?
 
  5) Can I personally recommend someone?
 
 
6) I sent an application. Where can I get information on it?
 
 
7) Can I learn if I am on the list of new recipients before publication in the “Journal Officiel”?
 
 
8) How many nominations are there each year?
 
 
9) How many years must I wait before being promoted to another class?
 
 
10) Is it possible to be decorated posthumously?
 
  RECEPTION
 
 
11) I have just been nominated, or promoted, to a national order. What happens?
 
 
12) Where must I pay the Chancellory fees?
 
 
13) I don’t know anyone who could give me my decoration. What should I do?
 
14) Who buys the decoration and where?
 
 
15) Is it necessary to have proof in order to buy a decoration?
 
 
16) Can the decoration be worn (the Legion of Honour or the Order of Merit) before officially receiving it?
 
 
17) Is there a time limit to be given the decoration for either one of the orders?
 
  18) How must I have my decoration given to me (both national orders)?
 
  19) I have been decorated with the Military Medal. What should I do?
 
   
  HOW TO WEAR DECORATIONS
 
 
20) What are the French decorations that may be worn?
 
 
21) I am the holder of a French decoration. How should I wear it?
 
 
22) I am the holder of several French decorations. In what order must they be worn?
 
23) I have just been made knight of a ministerial order (Palmes Académiques; Mérite agricole; Mérite maritime; Arts et Lettres). What is the proper procedure for receiving the insignia?
 
 
24) I was decorated with the Order of Social Merit in 1961. May I still wear this decoration?
 
 
25) Can I wear the National Order of Merit instead of the “Mérite social”?
 
 
26) May I wear foreign decorations?
 
 
27) How are the foreign decorations to be worn?
 
 
28) I am the head of an association. Can I create a decoration?