Exhibition to discover the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour

Name: Exhibition to discover the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour
Start: 2022-09-17T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Grande chancellerie de la Légion d'honneur - Hôtel de Salm

An exhibition full of images to discover a little-known state institution, the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

David Bordes

An exhibition full of images to discover the great chancery of the Legion of Honour and its three public service activities: the management of national orders, the educational houses of the Legion of Honour (public educational institutions) and the museum.

About the location

Grande chancellerie de la Légion d'honneur - Hôtel de Salm

64 rue de Lille 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Built at the request of the Prince of Salm-Kyrbourg, between 1782 and 1787, the Hotel de Salm was bought in 1804, in the name of the Legion of Honour, by the first Grand Chancellor, the Count of Lacépède, to install the administration of the order newly created by the First Consul. Restored by the architect Antoine Peyre, the hotel was then enlarged and modernized over time with in particular the creation in 1870 of the building that still houses the central administration of the great chancery. Set on fire during the commune (23 May 1871) at the same time as the Tuileries Palace, the Town Hall and other institutions, the palace was immediately rebuilt at the initiative of General Vinoy, then Grand Chancellor, through a subscription to members of the Legion of Honour and Military Medalists. In 1925, the wing of the stables was transformed into a museum by the then Grand Chancellor, General Dubail, giving the palace its final appearance.