The Grand Chancery provides three public services: it administers the national awards, directs the Maison d'education(schools) and the Museum of the Legion of Honor.
Organization
The Grand Chancery is headed by a Secretary-General, who is appointed by the President of the Republic, and under the authority of the Grand Chancellor.
Its administrative services account for nearly 400 employees (including 110 teachers), contract agents and civil servants seconded mainly from the Ministry of Justice for the management of the orders and decorations and from the Ministry of Education for the schools. The variety of tasks requires a wide range of expertise in the legal, pedagogical, educational, cultural, heritage-related, administrative and technical fields.
Ses activités
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The Grand Chancery is the supervisory institution for the administration of national decorations. Its award office is involved in the different stages of the procedure
- Reviewing nomination and promotion dossiers sent every year by the ministries for the Legion of Honor, the Military Medal and the National Order of Merit
- Preparing and implementing the decisions of the Council of the Order
- Publishing the list of honorees in the Journal Official
- Receiving chancery fees
- Overseeing induction ceremonies
- Mailing certificates
- Follow up and updating of honoree lists
For these duties, the Grand Chancery is the contact of the Presidency of the Republic, the ministries, embassies, prefectures and foreign governments.
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- Personalized support for the needs of future honorees and their requests for various types of information.
- Maintaining information on members.
- The Grand Chancery manages 200 years of archives with a database of 2.2 million dossiers, available to descendants of honorees and historical researchers.
- Reviewing applications to the Maison d'education of the Legion of Honor
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- Reviewing requests to create insignia or change the conditions for conferring existing decorations
- Initiating any disciplinary proceedings that may be required against honorees
- Receiving requests for wearing foreign decorations
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- Managing the Institution’s human resources and recruiting students for the schools
- Administrative and financial management.
- Supervising teaching and education in the schools
- Developing the museum’s cultural policy
- Developing the cultural policy and managing the museum
- Maintaining and enhancing the architectural patrimony