The French MSF nurse who survived Ebola, the writer Patrick Modiano, economists Thomas Piketty and Jean Tirole and actress Mimie Mathy listed in promoting the Legion of Honor from January 1, published in the Journal Official.
This civil development has 691 decorated, including 571 men, 95 officers, 19 commanders, big five officers and one large cross resistant and historian of World War II Jean-Louis Cremieux .
The MSF volunteer, 29, received the award “in exceptional circumstances” since his youth does not allow you to meet the criteria of 20 years of minimum activity required to be knighted, explained the Great Chancellery of the Legion of Honor.
Infected with the Ebola virus during his mission in Liberia and repatriated on September 19 to France, she received a medical discharge in early October.
Several French who have received international recognition this year include in promoting New Year, as the Nobel Prize for Literature Patrick Modiano, who has been promoted as Jean Tirole officer, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2014.
Artur Avila, winner of the 2014 Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics, has been knighted by way also exceptional as the Brazilian naturalized French only has 35.
The economist Thomas Piketty , whose book “The Capital in the XXI Century” has sold 1.5 million copies, has been knighted.
Other winners in some of the categories are Pierre Bergé, president of the supervisory board the daily Le Monde, film director Nina Campaneez, journalist Robert Namias or writer Julia Kristeva, and the former Minister of French Culture, Jack Lang, actress Mimie Mathy and guitarist Chico Bouchikhi, founder of the Gipsy Kings, or American graffiti JonOne.
In 2014, 1,926 people were honored to civil degree and 965 military title with the Legion of Honor in promotions of Easter, July 14, French national holiday, and is the January 1.
Founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, the Legion of Honor is the highest French national distinction, which currently has 92,000 members rewarded for their merits in the service of France, civil or military title.
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