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[Grande chancellerie](https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/fr/les-decorations/les-decorations-francaises/la-legion-dhonneur)", "The entry denotes an honorary grade, not an occupation, its recipient, or the physical decoration.", "A nomination record and a reception record establish different events; reception is not obligatory for foreign recipients. [Reception guidance](https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/fr/preparer-sa-remise-de-decoration)", "A historical knight appointment does not alone establish that knight is the recipient's latest grade." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Order and grade identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "France; Légion d'honneur; chevalier", "why_it_matters": "Prevents confusion with similarly named grades in other orders." }, { "name": "Recipient identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified person linked through an authoritative appointment or recipient record", "why_it_matters": "Prevents attribution to a namesake or to the owner of an insignia." }, { "name": "Appointment authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Appointment instrument, issuing authority, date, and exact recipient entry", "why_it_matters": "Separates a documented appointment from a proposal or unsupported claim." }, { "name": "Procedural milestones", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Separately evidenced proposal, appointment, notification, and reception; unknown or not applicable where justified", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating distinct stages as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Recipient procedural regime", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "French-recipient procedure; foreign-recipient procedure; historical or transitional procedure; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which formalities must be checked." }, { "name": "Basis of recognition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Civil or military merits; exact grounds as recorded; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Records the documented basis without inventing an occupation or qualification." }, { "name": "Dated grade and standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Knight at specified date; subsequent promotion documented; disciplinary change documented; current standing unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports accurate historical and present-tense descriptions." }, { "name": "Associated insignia form", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Knight-grade insignia or authorized representation linked to an applicable period and source", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification without treating possession as proof of entitlement." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an ambiguous chevalier reference to the correct order and grade.", "Verify a recipient's knight appointment against an authoritative record.", "Identify missing evidence needed to distinguish appointment from reception.", "Produce a dated description that accounts for later promotion or documented disciplinary changes.", "Check a proposed designation or insignia representation against the applicable grade and period.", "Route unresolved procedural questions to the Grande chancellerie with the relevant evidence." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the rank, its criteria and history, citing the order's official sources.", "Verify whether a person holds the rank against official publications." ], "must_not": [ "Claim a person holds the rank without official evidence.", "Help make or sell fake insignia or certificates.", "Present revoked awards as still held.", "Reveal private data from nomination files." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing a claim that a named person holds or lost the award." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "False claims of honours deceive the public.", "Revocations can be political and affect reputations." ], "affected_parties": [ "Recipients", "The public" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The order's grand chancellery under the French state.", "master_systems": [ "Official journal of the French Republic" ] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "This grade is encountered in French state honours records, award ceremonies and biographies documenting distinguished civilian or military service.", "It is used to describe a person's formally conferred position within the national order, with appointment records supporting verification." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Code de la Legion d'honneur, de la Medaille militaire et de l'ordre national du Merite, issued by the French Republic, governs the order and its grades." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "An unsupported attribution can misrepresent a person's honours and damage the reliability of public records.", "Confusing the knight grade with another grade can produce incorrect biographical descriptions or ceremonial treatment.", "Treating possession of an insignia as proof of appointment can facilitate false claims of entitlement." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "The grade is an institutional status that cannot be established visually from a person or an insignia alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q10855271: Knight of the Legion of Honour", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10855271", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Chevalier of the Legion of Honour", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_of_the_Legion_of_Honour", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "knight-grade-identity", "name": "Knight grade identity", "description": "Establishes exactly which honour the registry entry denotes.", "rationale": "The English word knight and French chevalier occur in multiple honorary and social systems.", "layers": [ { "id": "order-and-grade", "name": "Order and grade", "description": "Locates chevalier within the specifically named French order.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-order-grade-pair", "name": "Explicit order-grade identification", "description": "Require evidence naming the Legion of Honour and the chevalier grade before matching a recipient claim to this entry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record explicitly identify chevalier de la Légion d'honneur or an unambiguous equivalent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-order-grade-pair-q01" }, { "text": "Could the wording instead refer to chevalier in another order?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-order-grade-pair-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "honorary-status-boundary", "name": "Honorary status boundary", "description": "Separates the grade from people, occupations, titles, and objects.", "findings": [ { "id": "grade-holder-insignia-separation", "name": "Grade, holder, and insignia separation", "description": "Represent the grade as the registered concept, its recipient through a relationship, and any physical insignia through a separate object relationship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the assertion about the knight grade, a person receiving it, or a particular insignia?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grade-holder-insignia-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Has honorary recognition been incorrectly interpreted as employment, professional licensing, or hereditary nobility?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grade-holder-insignia-separation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "appointment-and-recipient-evidence", "name": "Appointment and recipient evidence", "description": "Connects an identifiable person to a documented knight appointment.", "rationale": "Correct grade identification does not establish that a particular person received it.", "layers": [ { "id": "appointment-instrument", "name": "Appointment instrument", "description": "Examines the document that supports appointment and its exact wording.", "findings": [ { "id": "appointment-not-proposal", "name": "Appointment distinguished from proposal", "description": "Record the operative appointment evidence separately from recommendations, announcements, and retellings; official promotion lists provide a research starting point. [Official promotions](https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/fr/les-decorations/les-dernieres-promotions)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which official instrument or authoritative record documents appointment to chevalier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appointment-not-proposal-q01" }, { "text": "What are the instrument date, publication date, and exact grade wording?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appointment-not-proposal-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recipient-disambiguation", "name": "Recipient disambiguation", "description": "Matches the person in the appointment evidence without overreading incomplete indexes.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-search-coverage", "name": "Identity and search coverage", "description": "Use corroborating identifiers and record archive coverage. The Grande chancellerie's public recipient list describes chronological and recipient-group limits, so a missing result is not conclusive. [Recipient list](https://archives.legiondhonneur.fr/rechercher/liste-unique-des-decores-publique)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dates, places, occupations, or other identifiers distinguish this recipient from namesakes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-and-search-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Does the searched collection actually cover this appointment period and recipient group?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-and-search-coverage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reception-and-procedural-regime", "name": "Reception and procedural regime", "description": "Determines which formalities govern the recipient's documented appointment.", "rationale": "Appointment, reception, and foreign-recipient treatment cannot safely be collapsed into one awarded flag.", "layers": [ { "id": "applicable-recipient-procedure", "name": "Applicable recipient procedure", "description": "Identifies the relevant recipient category and historical rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "french-and-foreign-treatment", "name": "French and foreign treatment", "description": "Establish the applicable procedure from evidence rather than residence or name; official guidance states that reception is not obligatory for foreign recipients. [Reception guidance](https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/fr/preparer-sa-remise-de-decoration)", "questions": [ { "text": "Under which recipient regime was this knight appointment made?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "french-and-foreign-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "Do nationality changes or historical circumstances require a different procedural interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "french-and-foreign-treatment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reception-evidence", "name": "Reception evidence", "description": "Records reception independently and identifies unresolved formalities.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-reception-milestone", "name": "Documented reception milestone", "description": "Record the reception date, supporting record, and authorized presenting person when applicable; distinguish missing evidence from a ceremony that was not required.", "questions": [ { "text": "What document establishes whether and when reception took place?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-reception-milestone-q01" }, { "text": "What procedural evidence must be obtained before describing the recipient as formally received?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-reception-milestone-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "standing-and-grade-representation", "name": "Standing and grade representation", "description": "Supports dated status descriptions and appropriate references to the knight distinction.", "rationale": "An original appointment can remain historically true while the recipient's later grade or standing changes.", "layers": [ { "id": "grade-history-and-standing", "name": "Grade history and standing", "description": "Tracks later events without erasing the original appointment.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-status-claims", "name": "Dated status claims", "description": "Check later promotions and documented disciplinary decisions before asserting present standing; official guidance confirms that the distinction can be withdrawn. [Grande chancellerie](https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/fr/les-decorations/les-decorations-francaises/la-legion-dhonneur)", "questions": [ { "text": "At the date being described, was chevalier the latest documented grade?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-status-claims-q01" }, { "text": "Which authoritative later decisions affect how the knight appointment should now be described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-status-claims-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "designation-and-insignia-use", "name": "Designation and insignia use", "description": "Checks language and visual representations against the documented grade.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-grade-representation", "name": "Supported grade representation", "description": "Use wording and insignia identification supported by the grade, period, and recipient evidence; an image or possessed medal alone does not establish personal entitlement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed wording accurately distinguish a historical knight appointment from the recipient's latest documented grade?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-grade-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Which authoritative period-specific guidance supports the proposed insignia identification or wearing claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-grade-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This description is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted.", "With no recorded sense, the entry is interpreted as the rank or honour rather than an individual recipient.", "Exact eligibility requirements, exceptional admission routes and rules for foreign recipients require verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Knight of the Legion of Honour this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The French state's Code de la Légion d'honneur, de la Médaille militaire et de l'ordre national du Mérite governs the order." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Knight of the Legion of Honour this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Recognition of distinguished civilian service or achievement.", "Recognition of distinguished military service.", "Conferral on foreign nationals as well as French nationals.", "Recording a recipient's honour in official notices, biographies and ceremonial contexts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Knight of the Legion of Honour this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Mistaking the honour for an occupation, professional qualification or licence.", "Treating the designation as a hereditary title of nobility.", "Confusing the rank with its holder or the physical insignia.", "Confusing appointment as a knight with appointment to a higher rank in the same order." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Knight of the Legion of Honour this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The French designation is chevalier de la Légion d'honneur; Knight of the Legion of Honour is its English rendering.", "Awards to foreign nationals involve distinctions in membership status and procedure that should be checked before equating them with awards to French citizens." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Knight of the Legion of Honour this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Legion of Honour", "difference": "The Legion of Honour is the entire order; knight is one rank within it." }, { "name": "Officer of the Legion of Honour", "difference": "Officer is the rank immediately above knight in the same order." }, { "name": "Knight of the National Order of Merit", "difference": "This is a rank in a separate French national order." }, { "name": "Recipient of the Legion of Honour", "difference": "A recipient is a person holding an award; the knight rank is the institutional distinction that person may hold." }, { "name": "Insignia of a Knight of the Legion of Honour", "difference": "The insignia is a physical decoration representing the rank, rather than the rank itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Knight of the Legion of Honour this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which registry source establishes whether this entry was intended primarily as a grade concept, an award classification, or a recipient-status concept?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this grade or its recipient relationship, requiring a link rather than a separate publication?", "Which historical rule changes affect appointment, reception, and membership descriptions for chevalier recipients?", "How should naturalization, posthumous appointments, and exceptional appointment procedures alter the ordinary evidence requirements?", "Which authoritative rules govern knight-specific insignia, wearing entitlement, and the effects of disciplinary decisions for each relevant period and recipient regime?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }