Q5. With respect to Legion of Honour, consider the following statements
1. It is an award initiated by Germany Govt.
2. This was given to Soumitra Chatterjee of India recently.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
1. The Legion of Honour, full name, National Order of the Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.
2. The order’s motto is “Honneur et Patrie” (“Honour and Fatherland”) and its seat is the Palais de la Légion d’Honneur next to the Musée d’Orsay, on the left bank of the River Seine in Paris.
3. Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee receives the Legion of Honour.