BELGIUM - Order of the Crown. Star of Commander. Silver gilt, enamel, tie, case (accident to the closure) Enclosed a Knight's cross of the Order of Leopold II, silver (missing centers), ribbon with rosette, case of Heremans Brussels. Height : 7,5 and 10 cm. 7.5 and 10 cm Gross weight : 23 and 60 g Expert : Gaëtan Brunel. Provenance : Léon Bassée, former owner of the newspaper of Douai, appointed in 1927 chief of the political service and administrator of the Havas Agency which will become the French Office of Information (OFI) then the France-Presse Agency (AFP) in 1944. Léon Bassée followed the official trips of French presidents and ministers abroad. It was on these occasions that he received decorations. In 1929, he collaborated on the last interviews of Clémenceau which were published the day after the latter's death under the title "Le Testament politique du Tigre".