The 2024 promotion of the Legion of Honor rewards eleven individuals who intervened in the course of the Arras assault | EUROtoday

Eleven individuals who intervened in the course of the assault in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) on October 13, 2023, had been knighted within the promotion of the Legion of Honor from 1^er January, printed Sunday December 31, at Official newspaper. Among them are six cops and 5 workers from the Gambetta highschool in entrance of which professor Dominique Bernard was stabbed to loss of life by a radicalized former pupil. Immediately after this assault, the trainer was posthumously elevated to the rank of knight by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

In whole, the brand new civilian promotion of the Legion of Honor, the very best of French nationwide distinctions, rewards “on par” 352 folks working “in the service of the general interest”, specifies the Grand Chancellery in a press launch. Illustrious or unknown to most of the people, these individuals are divided into completely different ranks (knights, officers, commanders, and many others.).

Two be part of the celebrated circle of grand crosses, the very best dignity of the Legion of Honor held by solely 68 different folks: the CEO of the world’s primary luxurious firm LVMH, Bernard Arnault, and the hematologist Dominique Meyer, member of the Academy of Sciences.

Two Nobel Prize winners in physics rewarded

Still within the sciences, two winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Frenchman Pierre Agostini and the Franco-Swedish Anne L’Huillier, are promoted to commanders, as are the astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and the kid psychiatrist Marcel Rufo.

In the financial world, Jean-Michel Darrois, enterprise lawyer, Colette Lewiner, director of EDF and the CGG oil companies group, in addition to David de Rothschild, honorary president of the R & CO financial institution, all three had been promoted. nice officer.

The ministers and parliamentarians in workplace can’t be named, however the former centrist minister Jean-Louis Borloo is promoted to officer, and the previous Castex authorities minister Elisabeth Moreno, president of Femmes@Numérique, turns into knight. The French ambassador to Iran, Nicolas Roche, former chief of workers to Jean-Yves Le Drian when he was minister of international affairs, was additionally knighted.

In the sporting area, Michel Vion, secretary common of the International Ski Federation, is an officer, whereas David Lappartient, president of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), Marion Bartoli, sports activities marketing consultant, Patrick Haddad, president of Red Star Football Club and audiovisual producer, Marc Keller, president of the Racing Club de Strasbourg, in addition to Frédéric Michalak, rugby coach at Racing 92, be part of the knights. For the humanities, the composer Vladimir Cosma was notably promoted to officer.

The so-called promotion of 1^er January and that of July 14 are the 2 annual civilian promotions of the Legion of Honor, which now has some 79,000 members.

Two army promotions are additionally printed, one in June-July for the lively military, the opposite in October-November for reserve troopers and veterans. In 2023, 1,858 folks had been acknowledged.