
The Institution in 10 key numbers
The Grand Chancery of the Legion of Honor accounts for:
- 400 employees, including 112 teachers
- 10,000 nomination dossiers reviewed each year
- 200 years of archives
- 2.2 million dossiers of honorees
- 24 million € annual budget
- 3 sites in the Paris region, two of them listed as historical monuments
- 1,000 pupils in two secondary schools
- 100% success rate for the baccalauréat (national high school diploma) and brevet (junior high certificate)
- 5,000 objects exhibited in the museum
- 400 orders and decorations of 122 countries exhibited in the Museum