{"id":263667,"date":"2025-07-14T07:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263667\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:38:11","slug":"gisele-pelicot-among-hundreds-set-to-receive-frances-legion-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263667\/","title":{"rendered":"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot among hundreds set to receive France’s Legion of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By&nbspEuronews<\/b><\/p>\n

\n Published on 13\/07\/2025 – 15:10 GMT+2\u2022Updated
\n 22:04<\/p>\n

\"\"ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n

According to a decree<\/a> published on Sunday, 589 people “committed to the general interest” will be awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest national honour.<\/p>\n

Among the recipients is Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, who became an international feminist figure during the trial for the rape and sexual abuse <\/a>she suffered from dozens of perpetrators after being drugged by her former husband in a case that gripped France and the world.<\/p>\n

Pelicot refused to allow the trial to be held behind closed doors, insisting that the “shame should change sides”.<\/p>\n

The decorations will be awarded to 497 knights, 68 officers, 18 commanders, four grand officers and two grand crosses. <\/p>\n

This last distinction, the highest, will be awarded to the historian Mona Ozouf and the former President of the Constitutional Council, Pierre Mazeaud.<\/p>\n

Former ministers Eric Dupond-Moretti, Stanislas Guerini, St\u00e9phane Le Foll and Olivier V\u00e9ran have also been knighted. Another former minister, Bruno Le Maire, has been appointed an officer, as has the former Secretary General of the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace, Alexis Kohler.<\/p>\n

US-born musician Pharrell Williams, who is also artistic director of Paris fashion house Louis Vuitton<\/strong><\/a>, is also among the personalities awarded the knighthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspEuronews Published on 13\/07\/2025 – 15:10 GMT+2\u2022Updated 22:04 ADVERTISEMENT According to a decree published on Sunday, 589 people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,36,48857,100730,38119],"class_list":{"0":"post-263667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-gisele-pelicot","13":"tag-legion-of-honour","14":"tag-pharrell-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850450921444016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}