Ordre de l’Union (Order of the Union)
February 6, 1808 – October 18, 1811
photo Bruno Couwenberg
From now on, the head of the king is missing and the front of the cross is actually the back of the previous order. The ribbon changes to pale blue. The lion emerging from the flows becomes the centre of the front; on the back, one finds the ten arrows of the Batavian provinces; five on each side of a sceptre and kept together by a ribbon. The whole is circled by a symbol of eternity: a snake biting its own tail.
Translation of : Les Ordres Français et les Récompenses Nationales; C. BOURDIER 1977