...enabled to make a boast of its vigilance. All the merit of the affair was attributed to Gisquet, who was promoted to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour. And when that worthy, after he was dismissed for his venality and scandalous immorality, wrote his...

...the Champs Elysée, Novemlx-r 25th, 1*51, M. de Charrière, the well known surgical instrument maker, was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour; and a piano-forte maker, labouring under the affliction of blindness, received the decoration of the...

...enabled to make a boast of its vigilance. All the merit of tho affair was attributed to Gisquet, who was promoted to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour. And when that worthy, after he was dismissed for his venality and scandalous immorality, wrote his...

...produced no fewer than sixty-three marine paintings — chiefly battlepieces, many of large size. He was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1841. His style was always somewhat affected, and it is considered that his success caused him to...

...admitted to the exhibition of 1855. M. Diday obtained a second-class medal in 1840, a first-class in 18U, and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1842. DIEZ, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN, Ph.D., the Nestor of Latin philology, was born in 1794, at Giessen,...

...place of Baron de Datnoiseau, Jan. 18, 1841 ; a member of the Bureau of Longitudes, March 26, 1862 ; and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of...to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour. M. Fave was Professor of Oeodesy at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1848 to 1854, and in the latter year...

...elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1864, in place of M. Guérard. and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1843. and was advanced to the grade of Officer in 1866. M. Egger is the author of "Latini Sermonis. Vetustioris...

...France and Spain poured honours upon him with a lavish and liberal hand. On the 20th of December he was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour, the Marseilles Chamber of Commerce sent him a most flattering address, the French residents at Barcelona...

...elected a member of the Acade'mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1854, in place of M. Guerard, and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1845, was advanced to the grade of Officer in 1866, and to that of Commander in 1879. M. Egger is the...

...in 1870 amounted to 25,000 francs. He received medals for his works in 1833, 1848, 1855, and 1867, and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1846, becoming an officer of the order in 1867. As a mark of their esteem for ' le père Corot,' his...