Emmanuel Célestin Suhard – 15 September 1938. Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy – 28 December 1938. Édouard Daladier – 1 June 1939. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark – 14 March 1940. George II of Greece – 11 April 1940. Prince Rainier of Monaco – 5 June 1941. Charles de Gaulle – 5 October 1944. Ghislaine, Princess consort of Monaco – 31 October 1946. Pope John XXIII – 10 July 1947. Marie-Pierre Kœnig – 4 September 1947. George VI – 13 November 1947. Paul of Greece – 29 November 1947. Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg – 20 January 1949. Granted by Rainier III, Prince of Monaco Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – 15 February 1951. Robert Schuman – 21 January 1952. Alcide De Gasperi – 20 January 1954. Giuseppe Pella – 20 January 1954. René Coty – 2 December 1954. Albert II of Belgium – 13 October 1957. Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg – 19 April 1958. Moens de Fernig Georges – 22 November 1958. Jullien André – 28 January 1959. Gobert d'Aspremont Lynden – 24 June 1959. Michel Debré – 12 October 1959. Jacques Chaban-Delmas – 12 October 1959. Giovanni Gronchi – 4 November 1959. Cesare Merzagora – 4 November 1959. Giovanni Leone – 4 November 1959. Antonio Segni – 4 November 1959. Gaetano Azzariti – 4 November 1959. Eugène Tisserant – 27 January 1960. Éamon de Valera – 10 June 1961. Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona – 11 May 1962. Maurice Feltin – 26 January 1963. Américo Tomás – 17 April 1964. António de Oliveira Salazar – 17 April 1964. Marc Jacquet – 18 November 1965. Giovanni Colombo – 6 November 1966. Anastasio Somoza Debayle – 23 October 1968. Pierre Blanchy – 18 November 1971. Princess Caroline of Monaco—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 7.226 of 18 November 1981. Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, Head of the Royal Italian Family—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 15702 of 1 March 2003. Mireya Moscoso, President of Panama—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 15902 of 25 July 2003 (Grand Officer on 26 November 2002). Baroness Elisabeth-Anne de Massy—Sovereign Ordonnance Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 16063 of 21 November 2003. Abel Pacheco de la Espriella, President of Costa Rica—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 16064 of 21 November 2003. Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 16518 of 26 November 2004. Granted by Albert II, Prince of Monaco Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of Italy—Sovereign Ordonnance n° 331 of 13 December 2005. Janez Drnovšek, President