Napoleon presenting female officer Marie Schellinck with the Legion d'Honneur, 1808 (1894). Artist: Lionel Noel Royer

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Napoleon presenting female officer Marie Schellinck with the Legion d'Honneur, 1808 (1894). Schellinck was the first woman to be awarded the Legion d'Honneur. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 10th September 1894.

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