page_title: Honour medal for courage and devotion
section_title: Noteworthy recipients (partial list)
hierarchical_section_title: Honour medal for courage and devotion / Noteworthy recipients (partial list)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Insigne de la Brigade des Sapeurs pompiers de Paris.
context_page_description: The Honour medal for courage and devotion is a French decoration than can be bestowed to individuals and whole units. It is awarded for acts of courage during a rescue. The Honour medal for courage and devotion was created on 2 March 1820 by King Louis XVIII. It has gone through several designs during its long history. The award was given its present name by a decree of 16 November 1901.
context_section_description: Gendarmerie general Denis Favier
  Paris firefighter Joseph Maigrot
  Rescue helicopter pilot Jean Boulet
  General Jean Bouffet
  Rescue helicopter pilot René Romet
  Navy commander, doctor Éric Dumont
  Police commissioner Robert Blémant
  Paris firefighter lieutenant-colonel Frédéric Curie
  Gendarmerie colonel Olivier Kim
  Firefighter colonel Antoine Battesti
  Military rabbi Paul Haguenauer
  Navy commander Philippe Kieffer
  Police detective Roger Borniche
  Writer and historian Olivier-Raoul-Hugues Chebrou de Lespinats
  Police commissioner Christophe Gavat
  Oscar II, King of Sweden
  Mamoudou Gassama, who climbed the outside of an apartment building to rescue a toddler hanging from a balcony
caption: Insignia of the Paris Fire Brigade, a recipient unit of the Honour medal for courage and devotion
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