In the Dictionnaire des Girouettes mention is made of a Caffarelli (no Christian name) who was created a Count of the Empire, and Grand Eagle of the Légion d’Honneur by Napoleon.
This did not prevent him from accepting the title of Count of the Empire from Napoleon, who also named him a knight commander in the Légion d’Honneur.
At the festivals of Gion and Hachiman men riding on hobby-horses (koma-gata) or with a wooden horse's head attached to their breasts formed part of the procession.
A Japanese book written two centuries ago informs us that sticks resembling the wands used for offerings at the purification ceremony were part shaven and set up in bundles at the four corners of the Gion shrine on the last day of the year.
The bundles of reeds or rushes which are thrown into the sea at the shrine of Gion at Tsushima in Owari, to avert pestilence, probably represent human figures.
A modern Japanese writer, describing a festival celebrated at Gion in Kioto on the last day of the year, says: "A big bonfire burns within the precincts of the shrine.
It contained a commission making him a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, signed by Charles X.
One was in reference to the nomination of Hugo as an officer of the Légion d'honneur; the other was in connection with his own nomination to the peerage.
Viennet was both a deputy and a peer of France, besides also being a Commander of the Légion d'honneur and a member of the Academy.
She remembered that George had received the Légion d'Honneur on the 14th of July.
The first illicit toast was offered to Raspail, because he had declined the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur.
As would be expected, we had no end of spies among us, and I could mention two in particular who received the Cross of the Légion d'honneur for having filled that honourable office in our ranks.
Further, there is no identity whatever between his position with regard to the decoration of July and his position with regard to the Légion d'Honneur and other orders which are inherited with the kingdom.
They are to be called ‘La Seconde Légion des Francs.
We went first to the temple of Gion Chiosiu, described elaborately in books by other travellers.
From Gion we went to see other temples, and wandered about under the large conifers of all kinds, trying to find out the quarters of the British Legation for some time, until Sir Harry Parkes returned.
He had just come to Paris to receive the Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre, and was being fêted and spoilt by everybody.
One of the most cherished souvenirs I have is a plain brass button with the inscription "Légion Étrangère" printed round it in raised letters.
In that part of the country the population has so greatly increased of late years that there was a scarcity of land for cultivation; and at the end of autumn the villages contest the right of ploughing there by fights of fire-arms.
In the great Corinthian colonnade, one of our party called me to him, and showed me some inscriptions about the public edifices along that line, and at the Temple of the Sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
