Friday, 2 January 2015

Like our Sirs, Dames and OBE's, La légion d' honneur

The list is produced in France very similar to ours in the UK, people who have done good things for their country and so are rewarded and it is something Malc and I approve of, especially when it is  someone like the little old lollypop lady giving 40 years of her life steering children safely across the road.
Here in France a list of " Légion d' honneur is produced and names are released on the 1st of January. There are this year 691 people who are being made " chevaliers", 95 officiers, 19 commandeurs,5 grand officiers and 1 grand croix. We have some people in our region who have received these great "honneurs." We appear to have a teacher of history and geography at a school in Toulouse who has been made a chevalier. A soprano who has been elevated to a grand officer and a retired rugbyman who has become a chevalier, and Jean Tirole who won the nobel prize for his work as an economist and now also becomes an officier.
Jean Tirole, prix Nobel d’économie 2014, est promu officier.
Claire Rocafort, professeur d’histoire-géographie au lycée Pierre-de-Fermat à Toulouse, est nommée chevalier. 
Dans le domaine de la communication et de la culture Mady Mesplé, la soprano toulousaine est élevée à la dignité degrand officier.
En sports, l’ancien rugbyman Jean-Claude Skrela devient chevalier.
Val says  you know our countries and peoples are very similar, the barrier which divides us is language.
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