Word: honneur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assassinate De Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart last August. For the ringleaders, the penalty was death. Ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry heard the sentence impassively, but flinched when the judge added that he would be expelled from the Légion d'Honneur; ex-Lieut. Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye was equally impassive as he stood at attention in his army uniform; Jacques Prévost, whose life had not even been demanded by the prosecution, heard the death sentence with a slight smile. Sentences for the six other defendants ranged from three years...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...