# The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine

Date: 1802

## The fact

On 19 May 1802 the Légion d'honneur was founded as [Napoleon](/people/napoleon)'s honour machine. It bound officers. Later republics' uses are not this act. Napoleon's documented role is: He founded a merit honour replacing some old orders. It bound officers to the regime.

## Context

Old orders had been abolished. Sharing the new order with named first cohorts is required. The setting of The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine is the public file around 1802-05-19. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Legion of Honour at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Fondation Napoléon — Légion d'honneur at https://www.napoleon.org/en/ (Fondation Napoléon). Official carrier: Britannica — Legion of Honour (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Fondation Napoléon — Légion d'honneur (https://www.napoleon.org/en/; Fondation Napoléon).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Legion of Honour (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine on 1802-05-19. A public honour order is a cohesion path of medium-low weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine under 1802-05-19 for Napoleon. Established: a sourced public record of The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine under 1802-05-19.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later republics' use as 1802 unique authorship of every later award. Mixed effects of The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The Légion d'honneur is founded in 1802 as a dated honour-and-cohesion machine. Naming Napoleon does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1802-05-19 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Napoleon: https://factrail.ai/people/napoleon

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.napoleon.org/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-legion-1802