This is the third time that he has complied with the exercise.
After having already decorated Édouard Philippe in 2017 then Jean Castex in 2021, Emmanuel Macron presented this Thursday the insignia of Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit to Elisabeth Borne.
This, in accordance with the republican tradition which wants any prime minister to be rewarded with this honorary distinction after six months at Matignon.
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You are a woman of confidence, not a woman of confidences, and your reserve is also the signature of your elegance - which complicates my task as a biographer
", thus amused the President of the Republic from the first words of his speech, which he delivered behind closed doors at the ceremony organized at the end of the morning at the Élysée.
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When you lift a part of this modesty with which you wrap your childhood, you suddenly see emotion and seriousness arise
", he then launched, addressing this "
pupil of the Nation, (.. .) daughter of a stateless refugee hunted by the French state
” during…
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