This is an increase in the Order of the Legion of Honor, which cannot be ignored. Among the 280 knights, 43 officers, 12 commanders, four grand officers and one grand cross promoted in the party of January 1, 2023, there are three members of the first Macronium circle. Poe Mayor and MoDem boss François Bayrou: Most ally becomes an officer. As for the former President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, and the former patron of the deputies of the march and the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, these two faithful among the faithful of the president are both appointed knights.
Nepotism or distinction for “serving the nation”? The discussion promises to be lively. Especially since these last two individuals were beaten during the 2022 legislative elections. Since then, Christophe Castaner has been appointed by the authorities as chairman of the board of directors of the Tunnel du Mont-Blanc company.
Barely arriving at the Élysée, Emmanuel Macron – Grand Master of the National Orders as President of the Republic – began the reform of the Legion of Honor, completed in 2018, to reduce contingents and preserve this badge, created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, for the most deserving individuals.
Thomas Pesce and Patrick Modiano were also awarded.
Other former ministers of the march also appear on the promoted list: former keeper of the seals of the first five-year term Nicole Bellubet, former housing minister Emmanuel Vargon, Muriel Penicot (Labor) and Frederic Vidal (higher education). On the opposition side, we note the names of the former right-wing ministers Michel Alliot-Marie, Nicole Amelin, Pierre Meenieri or even the communist Marie-Georges Buffet and the socialist Helene Geoffroy, the mayor of Vaux-en-Velene, who opposed the rapprochement of his party with the recalcitrant France and who is the main opponent of Olivier Faure at the next congress of the PS.
In 2022, the January 1 action has already made headlines with the award of Agnès Buzyn, the former health minister who left government at the start of the Covid crisis to run for mayor of Paris. Senior officials are also highlighted. Among which we note the name of Thomas Fathom, CEO of Cnam and former Deputy Chief of Staff of Edouard Philippe in Matignon.
In addition to the political and administrative realm, several big names are honored on January 1, 2023, from astronaut Thomas Pescet to biologist Etienne-Émile Beaulieu, from playwright Florian Zeller to the Nobel Prize in Literature Patrick Modiano through former tennis player Yannick Noah.
Source: Le Parisien
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