of the Legion of Honour it may not be generally known that members are paid a stipend by the State. There are lat present 30,303 persons entitled to this payment: 35 grand crosses, 172 grand officers, 812 commanders, 3,964 officers, and 25,322 chevaliers. The grand crosses are entitled to £120 a year; the grand officers £80; commanders £40; officers "land chevaliers £10, bat the payments made only to military members of the ion. It would be gross breach of etiquette for a civilian égic to apply for his stipend unless he were in actual need of the money. As it is, the Legion of Honour costs the couutry over nine million franes a year.
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