sentences:  At the end of 1914, General Boëlle, Commandant in Chief of the French 4th Army Corps, tried to convince the French administration to create a formal military award.Maurice Barrès, the noted writer and parliamentarian for Paris, gave Boëlle support in his efforts.On 23 December 1914, the French parliamentarian Georges Bonnefous proposed a legislative bill to create the "Croix de la Valeur Militaire" ("Cross of Military Valour") signed by 66 other parliamentarians.