Emmanuel Macron decorated Thierry Ardisson as a knight of the Legion of Honor. Novelist Christine Angot said she was humiliated several times on the set of “Everybody talks about it” Several other artists, such as actresses Judith Godrèche and Sara Forestier, also spoke out against this decoration.
“In a system where respectability is indexed to wealth, strength, power, those who hold them can only receive admiration, smiles, medals,” wrote Forestier on Instagram. The announcement of the upcoming award to Michel Sardou of the National Order of Merit by Emmanuel Macron also made certain feminist activists jump, said Sandrine Rousseau Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of the Women's Foundation. The President of the Republic said he was honoring “50 years of television and creations” and “a character of total freedom, a provocateur and erudite (...) a form of untimely anarchist who loves France”