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Francis Fox TuckettHe pioneered exploration within the Dauphiné Alps in the French Alps, in 1862 making the first crossings of the col des Ecrins, the col du Sélé and the col du Glacier Blanc in the Massif des Écrins with the guides Michel Croz, Peter Perren and Bartolommeo Peyrotte.
Pierre de Coubertin In 1911, Pierre de Coubertin founded the inter-religious Scouting organisation Eclaireurs Français (EF) in France, which later merged to form the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France.
Walter BonattiIn 2002, French President Jacques Chirac awarded Bonatti the National Order of the Legion of Honor for the courage, determination and altruism he demonstrated trying to save his fellow climbers.
Hery RajaonarimampianinaAs a consequence, in 2003 he was elected President of the'' Ordre des Experts Comptables et Commissaires aux Comptes de Madagascar'' (Professional Order of Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors of Madagascar) and appointed Vice-Président of the'' Conseil Supérieur de la Comptabilité'' (Superior Accounting Council) and counsel of the'' Comité pour la Sauvegarde de l’Intégrité'' (Committee for the Safeguarding of the Integrity).
George Grafton WilsonHe was also director of the Revue de Droit International from 1913 and Membre de l’ Institut de Droit International ; fellow and later vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice president of the American Society of International Law.
Dan CarrDan Carr received a Maitre Graveur Typographe (Master of Punchcutting) from the Cabinet des Poincons et des Livres, de L’impremerie nationale (Imprimierie Nationale) in Paris, for Regulus in 1998.
Ren? Galand In 1971, Galand was awarded the Palmes Académiques by the government of France for his contributions to the study of French literature.
Amador Lugo GuadarramaIn 1983 he became a member of the Feria Nacional de la Plata in Guerrero to promote that state's silver smithing industry.
Michel Maffesoli Maffesoli was one of the persons appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France by a decree issued by the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, Valérie Pécresse, in August 2008.
Marcellin DesboutinBack in Paris, he helped found the Second National Society of Fine Arts and celebrated his appointment in the order of the Legion of Honour on 8 June 1895 with two hundred guests presided over by Puvis de Chavannes, in one of his favorite restaurants of Montmartre, giving the toast,'' Gentlemen, drink to Manet in painting, in Chabrier music, Villiers and Duranty in literature !''
Franca Sozzani In 2012 Sozzani was knighted by French president Nicolas Sarkozy with the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur and became Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations.
Claude ViallatIn 2006, he was awarded with the Fine Arts Academy's Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca (Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation) prize for painting.
Margo GlantzIn 2004 she was awarded the'' Premio Nacional, campo I, Área de Lingüística y Literatura'' (National Prize, field 1, Are of Linguistics and Literature).
C. Bascom SlempIn 1931, Slemp was awarded the prestigious French Legion of Honor Medal for his work as United States Commissioner General for the International Colonial and Overseas Exposition that took place in Paris in May 1931, one of his last official responsibilities before his retirement.
F?lix CharpentierOn May 5, 1892, the day of the unveiling of the monument celebrating Avignon's absorption into France, he was decorated with the title of chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
John Painter (supercentenarian)Eighty days after the armistice was declared on November 11, 1918, Painter received the highest French honor, the Légion d'honneur award.
S?bastien LoebHe was made knight of the Légion d'honneur on 2009, by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Paul McCartneyOn 8 September 2012, during a ceremony in Paris, French President François Hollande decorated McCartney with the Légion d'Honneur, with a rank of officer, for his services to music.
David FeuerwerkerCombattant Volontaire de la Résistance, in 1944 she was awarded the French Liberation Medal (Médaille de la France Libérée),'' for her participation in the liberation of France''.
Serena SutcliffeA former Chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine, she was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1988.
Giorgio GajaHe has been a member of the Institut de droit international since 1993.
Brian LargeIn 1985 the French government named Large a Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Thaddaeus RopacIn 2013, Thaddaeus Ropac was made Knight of the Legion of Honour in France.
James GreenleesIn 1917 he was awarded a Bar to his DSO, and the next year he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Joseph-Clovis-Kemner LaflammeIn 1898, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Ninian StephenIn 1983 he received the French Légion d'honneur.
Brice LalondeIn 1968, Lalonde was President of the Union nationale des étudiants de france (UNEF), the French National Students' Union, which brought France to a standstill with protests and riots.
Uma ThurmanOn February 7, 2006, she was also named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature.
Enzo MartinelliWhile still attending the university, he won the Cotronei Foundation prize, and after earning his laurea, the Beltrami Foundation prize, the Fubini and Torelli prize s (this last one jointly with Pietro Buzano) and the Prize for Mathematical Sciences of the Ministry of National Education : this last one was awarded him in 1943, and the judging commission consisted of Francesco Severi (as the president of the commission), Ugo Amaldi and Antonio Signorini (as the supervisor of the commission).
Christine Valmy• In April 1968, Christine Valmy was awarded the a special merit honor by the French Congress of Esthetics held in Versailles, FRANCE for promoting the esthetics profession in the United States.
Brander MatthewsIn 1907, the French government decorated him with the Legion of Honor for his services in promoting the cause of French drama.
Douglas Kennedy (writer)He received the Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007.
Maurice ThorezWhen General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces liberated France in 1944, Thorez received a pardon.
Bernard Boutet de MonvelFinally and most significantly, at Louis Süe's behest, he joined La Compagnie des Arts Français on its creation in 1919.
Henryk SiemiradzkiIn 1878 he received the French National Order of the Legion of Honour and a Gold Medal of the Paris World's fair for the painting Flower vase.
Ted NelsonIn 2001 he was knighted by France as'' Officier des Arts et Lettres''.
Alexander RefordIn 2009, he was awarded the Frederick-Todd Prize by the Association des Architectes Paysagistes du Québec.
Ryuichi SakamotoIn July 2009 Sakamoto was honored as Officier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the French Embassy in Tokyo.
Guy de LussignyIn 1968, the Institut de France and the Académie des Beaux-Arts award him the Prix Dumas-Millier.
Vladimir BobriIn 1972, Bobri was decorated with the Cross of Isabel la Catolica with the rank of Knight-Commander, recognizing his lifelong achievements as a designer, painter, art director, composer and writer, and his use of those talents to increase awareness of Spanish culture.
Benjamin Millepied In 2010, he was made Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
Peter Phillips (conductor)In 2005, Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, a decoration intended to honour individuals who have contributed to the understanding of French culture in the world.
Evelio RoseroIn 2006 he won Colombia's Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Literature Prize) awarded in recognition of a life in letters by the Ministry of Culture.
Joel Cohen (musician)He was a government-appointed artist-in-residence in the Netherlands during the year 2000, and is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.
Brian Flowers, Baron FlowersIn 1981 he was made an Officer of the French Légion d'honneur.
Li Rui (writer)In 2004, Li won the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award for his contributions to arts and literature.
Euzhan PalcyIn December 2009, Palcy was the patron of the 20th anniversary of the organization at the Cinémathèque (the French Museum of Cinema) with Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand and director Costa Gavras.
Guy BerthiaumeGuy Berthiaume is a Knight in the Ordre des Palmes académiques of the French Republic (2006).
Thierry HenryIn 1998, he was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur, France's highest decoration.
Michael Kenna (photographer)In 2000, the Ministry of Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.
Michel Maffesoli In late 2007, when Michel Maffesoli was appointed to the Conseil National des Universités (CNU), section 19 (Sociology, Demography), the Association des Sociologues Enseignants du Supérieur (ASES) and the Association Française de Sociologie (AFS) protested against this decision.
David Robertson (conductor)In October 2011, Robertson was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of France.
Amanda LearIn 2006 Lear opened another art exhibition in New York, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Amanda Lear, and in July was decorated with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in recognition of her contributions to French arts and sciences.
David C. Levy Levy was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France and in 1995 honored by the NYU School of Education with a'' Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award'' for his work as an'' extraordinary arts administrator, art scholar, performing musician, philosopher and aesthetician.''
C?sar FranckOn 4 August 1885, Franck was made a Chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur.
Erich von StroheimHe was awarded the French Légion d'honneur shortly before his death in 1957 in Maurepas, France at the age of 71.
Margo GlantzIn 1995 she was elected to be a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Language Academy).
V?clav HavelHavel also received multiple honorary doctorates from various universities such as the prestigious Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 2009, and was a member of the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
No?l ValoisThe Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres awarded him with the prix Gobert for the publication of his work on the Council of State under Henry IV in 1889.
John SextonIn July 2008, he was named a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur.
George Richardson (ice hockey)He was awarded La Légion d'honneur Croix de guerre by the President of the French Republic (announced in Ottawa, March 19, 1916).
Charles Christopher HillHe has been artist in residence at Cité International Des Arts, Paris, France, at Chateau de La Napoule, La Napoule, France and at Eklisia, Gümüslük, Turkey (1994).
Woo Chia-weiIn 2001, he was awarded'' Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur'' by the President of the Republic of France.
Shi ZhongguiIn 2000 he was made a Member of the Academie des Arts-Sciences-Lettres de France and won the 2000 Grande Medaille de Vermeil, the first Chinese artist ever to win this award.
DalidaIn December 1968, she was awarded the Médaille de la Présidence de la République by General Charles de Gaulle, the only person from the music industry to have received this medal.
Michel Ancel On March 13, 2006, he, along with Shigeru Miyamoto and Frédérick Raynal, were knighted by the French Minister of Culture and Communication, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, a knight of arts and literature.
Edmonde Charles-RouxDecorated with the Croix de Guerre, she was made Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1945, and received the distinction of vivandière d'honneur by the RMLE at the hands of Colonel Gaultier, corps commander.
John Baptist WolfFor his work in French history, Wolf was decorated as a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques by the French government in 1979.
Olivier Da Lage He has been awarded'' Chevalier dans l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (2010).
David NualartHe received the Research Prize of the Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid in 1991.
Leonard HayflickIn 1998 he was elected corresponding member of the Société de Biologie of France.
Benoit MandelbrotIn November 1990, he was made a Knight in the French Legion of Honour.
Philippe de RothschildReleased from Vichy custody on 20 April 1941, Philippe de Rothschild made his way to England, where he joined the Free French Forces of General Charles de Gaulle, earning a Croix de Guerre medal.
Karl BodmerBodmer was made a Knight in the French Legion of Honour in 1877.
Arturo BrachettiIn December 2011 he received the title of'' Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres'' from the French Ministry of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand.
Henri BergsonIn 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
Richard RedgraveRedgrave received the cross of the Legion of Honour after serving on the executive committee of the British section of the Paris Exhibition of 1855.
Roberto CossaConferred the National Theatre Prize Argentina and the Public and Critics Prize of Spain, Cossa was appointed President of the General Society of Argentine Authors in 2007.
Barney Rosset Rosset was awarded the French title Commandeur dans l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1999.
Mariano Jes?s CuencoIn 1926, he became a member of the Academia Filipina Correspondiente de la Real Española de la Lengua.
H?l?ne DutrieuIn 1913 Dutrieu became the first woman aviator awarded membership of the Légion d'honneur (French Legion of Honour).
Mildred Barnes BlissAs vice-president of the Comité Franco-Américain pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontière, beginning in 1914 Mildred Bliss helped establish centers in France for the care of Belgian and French children orphaned or displaced during the war.
Bruce RuxtonIn 1997 he received the Chevalier of Order of Merit from Jacques Chirac.
Deepak Pental# Member of RAC of CIMAP and IHBT # In 2007 he was awarded ` Officier Des Palmes Academiques ` for contributions to Research and Education by the Government of Republic of France.
Henri ChapuAn Officer of the French Legion of Honor, Chapu died in Paris in 1891.
Jon WinrothHe was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 2004.
Walter DiesendorfDiesendorf was a member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, of which he became a Fellow in 1957 ; the Société des Ingénieurs de France and the Conférence Internationale des Grands Réseaux Electriques à Haute Tension.
William Christie (harpsichordist)He was elected a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts on November 12, 2008, in the'' Unattached members'' section (Membres libres), at the seat formerly held by Marcel Marceau, Seat # 1.
Harry PatchIn 1998, as a surviving veteran of the First World War who had fought for the Allies in France and Flanders, the President of the Republic of France appointed Patch a Knight of the Légion d'honneur.
Robert DarntonIn 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, an award given by the French government, in recognition of his work.
Ahmad Jamal The French government has inducted Ahmad Jamal into the prestigious Order of the Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, naming him Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on June 2007.
Ward SwingleOn February 20, 2004, Swingle was named'' Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture and Information.
Harvey Washington WileyThe French government named him a Chevalier of the Order of the Légion d'honneur in 1909.
Jacques FoccartIn 1972, Mongo Beti's Cruel hand on Cameroon, autopsy of a decolonization was censored upon its publication by François Maspero by the Ministry of the Interior Raymond Marcellin on the request, brought forward by Jacques Foccart, of the Cameroon government, represented in Paris by the ambassador Ferdinand Oyono.
F?lix DebaxOn 30 May 1907 he was appointed a chevalier of the Legion of Honour and also received the French médaille militaire.
Alwin NikolaisIn 1978, the French National Ministry of Culture invited him to form the Centre Nationale de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France.
Uriel FrischHe is a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and the recipient of the 2010 Modesto Panetti e Carlo Ferrari prize.
Trisha BrownIn 1988 she was named Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the government of France.
Li Shu-huaIn 1926 he was awarded the'' officier de la Legion d' Honneur'' by the French Government.
Louis de SoissonsIn 1923 Louis de Soissons became a fellow of the RIBA and a member of both the Town Planning Institute, later RTPI, and the Société des Architectes Diplômés par le Gouvernement.