New year, new promotion.
The Legion of Honor was awarded this Saturday, January 1 to no less than 547 recipients, divided between 453 knights, 72 officers, 16 commanders, five grand officers and a grand cross.
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If last year was resolutely placed under the sign of the Covid, this new promotion is proving to be more traditional, with decorated people from seven major fields of activity: the public sector;
the economic field;
health and social;
teaching and research;
culture and communication;
elected officials and assimilated;
and athletes, religious leaders and representatives of memorial activities.
Founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802
Among the new knights of the Legion of Honor, we find in particular the French ambassador in Afghanistan David Martinon, the former minister and president of Korelya Capital Fleur Pellerin, the author Gaëlle Josse, the president of the criminal chamber of the Cour de Cassation Christophe Soulard, or the executive director of the WHO academy and former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn.
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Former ministers Gérard Collomb and François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon, were made officers of the Legion of Honor.
The President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, has become a Commander of the Legion of Honor, along with the economist Jean-Hervé Lorenzi.
The pediatrician Claude Griscelli was made a grand officer, as was the 100-year-old former Minister of European Affairs André Chandernagor.
Mgr Luc Crépy, bishop of Versailles, the deportee-resistant Yvette Lévy, and Isabelle Demongeot, former professional tennis player, were also decorated.
Sixty police officers were also distinguished, some of whom intervened in the operation to evacuate Afghanistan.
Founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, the Legion of Honor is the highest of French national distinctions.
It now has 92,000 members, rewarded for their eminent merits in the service of the nation.