A very eclectic vintage. The actresses Jeanne Balibar and Marina Hands, the singer Gilbert Montagné and the Nobel prize winner Gérard Mourou appear in the New Year promotion of the National Order of the Legion of Honor published Wednesday in the Official Journal, which distinguishes 483 other “illustrious or unknown ”.
The civil promotion of the Legion of Honor on January 1 brings together 487 people "divided between 395 knights, 73 officers, 13 commanders, 4 grand officers and 2 grand'cross," said the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honor in a communicated.
Gilbert Montagné is one of the lucky ones
In this promotion, two Resistants, Pierre Simonet and Edgard Tupët-Thomé, both companions of the Liberation, are raised to the dignity of grand'croix, the highest dignity. The sociologist Claudine Herzlich and the Egyptologist Christiane Ziegler are elevated to the dignity of great officer just like the Albanian writers Ismaïl Kadaré and Franco-Bulgarian Julia Kristeva.
In the field of culture, the actresses Jeanne Balibar, Marina Hands and Chantal Lauby are appointed knight just like Jean-François Chougnet, president of Mucem. Singer Gilbert Montagné is promoted to officer.
IPCC researcher honored
The promotion also includes Stéphane Israël, president of Arianespace appointed knight and Gérard Mourou, Nobel Prize in physics, promoted to officer. In the ecological and climatological field, Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, researcher, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Sophie Paturle-Guesnerot, Managing Director of Demeter Partners, are appointed knight.
In the field of sport, Arsène Wenger, director of world football development at FIFA is promoted to officer and Bernard Serin, president of FC Metz, appointed knight.
The economic world well served
Among the personalities of the economic world, Serge Weinberg, founder of Weinberg Capital and president of Sanofi reaches the rank of commander. Are notably named knight Bertrand Camus, managing director of the Suez group, Karima Silvent, HR director of the Axa group, Virginie Basselot, chef-cook. Jean-François Cirelli, former director of GDF-SUEZ, then of Engie, and current president of the French branch of the most important asset manager in the world, BlackRock, is appointed officer on the Prime Minister's contingent.
In the field of high tech, Yann Le Cun, one of the French stars of Silicon Valley, director of the artificial intelligence laboratory of Facebook, professor of computer science and neurosciences at New York University, is appointed knight. Former ministers and former parliamentarians are also part of this promotion including the former minister and mayor of Boulogne Jean-Pierre Fourcade, promoted to officer, and Jean Glavany, appointed knight.
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