Word: honneur
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...pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received the red rosette of a commander of the Légion d'Honneur, Chagall mused: "First a commandeur, then a TIME cover. You see what happens when...
...Army captain, he received the Legion d'Honneur for his detective work in uncovering cached Nazi art loot...
...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...
Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...