Word: honneur
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...wreath-laying ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe and an exchange of kind words, along with the highest French and German decorations. At the final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...
...that you are an American, America is beginning to appreciate food and drink." Who could this be but Movie Director Alfred Hitchcock, as eulogized by French Cinematheque Chief Henri Langlois at the Great Fisheye's investiture last week as a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur...
Seven of the 63 American "Aces" who had downed five or more enemy planes were Harvard men. Harvard men received 93 Croix de Guerre and four medals of the Légion d'Honneur...
...First World War. The September following graduation he began to fly in France, and for a year and a half, in the 94th Aero Squadron's 1st Patrol Pursuit Group, he won an outstanding reputation, as well as the Croix de Guerre and admission to the Legion d'Honneur. After 12 years' retirement in Peru as a sugar planter and producer, Campbell worked in military and civilian aviation. Harvard, he writes in the 50-year Class Report, "is a place where men are expected to do things with their lives...
...expression of alienation from society is a concept that Manet would have found ridiculous. He thoroughly enjoyed the life of the race track and cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...