Ross Steele
Ross Steele AM is an Australian author, academic and Francophile.
He has published thirty- seven books in French and English on the subjects including French culture, language and the teaching of French language.
He has received a number of awards including Member of the Order of Australia( awarded 2006), Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur( awarded 1996) and Officier in the Ordre National de la Légion d’ Honneur in 2008.
Vimanmek Mansion
The Vimanmek Mansion is a former royal villa in Bangkok, Thailand.
It is in the Dusit Palace complex in Dusit District.
is has been dismantled to allow for foundation repairs and will be rebuilt upon their completion.
Palais de la Bourse
Palais de la Bourse may refer to the Palais de la Bourse in:
Palais de Chaillot
The Palais de Chaillot is a building at the top of the in the Trocadéro area in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
For the Exposition Internationale of 1937, the old 1878 Palais du Trocadéro was partly demolished and partly rebuilt to create the" Palais de Chaillot".
It was designed in classicizing" moderne" style by architects Louis- Hippolyte Boileau, Jacques Carlu and Léon Azéma.
The Palais consists of two separate wings shaped to form a wide arc, which are those of the former building with new taller portions built in front.
The pair of larger central pavilions are also those of the former palais, encapsulated in new construction.
The large central hall and towers of the old palais were demolished, leaving only the basement, with a wide esplanade created on top, establishing an open view from the place du Trocadéro to the Eiffel Tower and beyond.
The buildings are decorated with quotations by Paul Valéry, and sculptural groups at the attic level by Raymond Delamarre, Carlo Sarrabezolles and Alfred Bottiau.
The eight gilded figures on the terrace of the Rights of Man are attributed to the sculptors Alexandre Descatoire, Marcel Gimond, Jean Paris dit Pryas, Paul Cornet, Lucien Brasseur, Robert Couturier, Paul Niclausse, and Félix- Alexandre Desruelles.
The buildings now house a number of museums:
It was on the front terrace of the palace that Adolf Hitler was pictured during his short tour of the city in 1940, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
This became an iconic image of the Second World War.
In 1948, the Palais de Chaillot hosted the third United Nations General Assembly, and, in 1951, the sixth General Assembly.
It is in the Palais de Chaillot that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.
This event is now commemorated by a stone, and the esplanade is known as the" esplanade des droits de l'hommeesplanade of human rights").
The Palais de Chaillot was also the initial headquarters of NATO, while the" Palais de l' OTAN"( now Université Paris Dauphine) was being built.
Musée de la Légion d'honneur
The Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie( French for" National museum of the Legion of Honour and of orders of chivalry") is a French national museum of orders of merit and orders of chivalry.
It is located in the Palais de la Légion d' Honneur beside the Musée d' Orsay at 2, rue de la Légion- d' Honneur, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.
It is open daily except Monday and Tuesday; admission is free.
The nearest métro and RER stations are Musée d' Orsay, Solférino, and Assemblée Nationale.
Palais de la Légion d'Honneur
The Palais de la Légion d'honneur( French for" Palace of the Legion of Honour") is a historic building on the Left Bank of the River Seine in Paris, France.
It houses the Musée de la Légion d'honneur(" Museum of the Legion of Honour") and is the seat of the Légion d'honneur, the highest French order of merit.
The building is also known as the Hôtel de Salm.
It is located at 64 rue de Lille, next to the old Orsay railway station( now the Musée d' Orsay) in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
Palais de Rumine
The Palais de Rumine is a late 19th- century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
The Musée national des Arts d' Afrique et d'Océanie( National Museum of Arts of Africa and Oceania) was a museum formerly located in the Palais de la Porte Dorée on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes at 293, avenue Daumesnil in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The museum began as the colonial exhibition of 1931, was renamed in 1935 the Musée de la France d’ Outre-mer, then in 1960 the Musée des Arts africains et océaniens, and finally in 1990 the Musée national des Arts d' Afrique et d'Océanie.
In 2003 the museum's collection was merged into the Musée du quai Branly, and in its place the Palais de la Porte Dorée now houses the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration.
Its tropical aquarium remains in the cellar of the Palais de la Porte Dorée and is open to the public.
Palais de la Cité
The Palais de la Cité, located on the Île de la Cité in the Seine River in the centre of Paris, was the residence of the Kings of France from the sixth century until the 14th century.
From the 14th century until the French Revolution, it was the headquarters of the French treasury, judicial system and the Parlement of Paris, an assembly of nobles.
During the Revolution it served as a courthouse and prison, where Marie Antoinette and other prisoners were held and tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
The palace was built and rebuilt over the course of six centuries; the site is now largely occupied by the buildings of the 19th- century Palais de Justice, but a few important vestiges remain: the medieval lower hall of the Conciergerie, four towers along the Seine, and, most important, the Sainte- Chapelle, the former chapel of the Palace, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture.
Both parts of the Conciergerie and Saint- Chapelle are classified as national historical monuments and can be visited, though most of the Palais de Justice is closed to the public.
Dédé Saint Prix
In 2012, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.

Question: Are both Vimanmek Mansion and Palais De La Légion D'Honneur located in the same country?
Answer: no