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He was also a Commandeur of the Légion d ' honneur in France, a Knight-Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix in Greece, and recipient of the order " Pour le Mérite " in West Germany.
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This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.
His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
There was also a dog, a dingo dog.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.
It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.
It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
was and Commandeur
And, in 1815, he was promoted to a Commandant ( now Commandeur ) de la Légion d ' honneur.
He has received considerable critical praise in France, including for several films which were not well received in the United States, and he has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he became a recipient of the French Republic's Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 he was awarded the Légion d ' honneur medal.
He was made Chevalier ( Knight ) of the Ordre national du Mérite, promoted Officier ( Officer ) in 1986 and promoted Commandeur ( Commander ) in 1994.
He was made Chevalier ( Knight ) of the Légion d ' honneur, promoted Officier ( Officer ) in 1991 and promoted Commandeur ( Commander ) in 2007.
The Auberge was the residence of the Langue de Provence, its Head, the “ Gran Commandeur ” being the Treasurer of the Order.
He was awarded a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in 1992, the Commandeur dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, an honorary Doctorate of Literature on 4 July 1985 by St. Andrews University in Scotland and an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1993 by the University of Sussex in England.
Monteux was a Commandeur of the Légion d ' honneur and a Knight of the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
On 23 March 2011 Faithfull was awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest cultural honours.
Baldwin was made a Commandeur de la Légion d ' honneur by the French government in 1986.
He was awarded the Bourgeois d ' Honneur de Geneve, made a Commandeur of the Légion d ' honneur of France and a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester ( KCSS ) of the Holy See, and was a recipient of the Order of the Nile of Egypt.
* On April 12, 2009, she was made Commandeur de la Légion d ' honneur.
In 1841, he was made Commandeur de la Légion d ' honneur, the first musician to receive that title.
In 1987, Atkins was appointed Commandeur of the Légion d ' Honneur.
Two years later, he was decorated with the cross of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and in 1992, he received an honorary César Award.
In 1986, Hendricks was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ; in 1992 she was awarded the rank of Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur.
On September 7, 2004, El Guerrouj was decorated with the " Cordon de Commandeur " by King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
He was awarded the Légion d ' honneur in 1900, became a Commandeur in 1930, and a Grand Officier in 1950.
McIndoe was created CBE in 1944 and after the war he received a number of British and foreign honours, including a Commandeur de la Légion d ' honneur ( Commander of the Legion of Honor ) and a knighthood in 1947 for his remarkable work on restoring the minds and bodies of the burnt young pilots of World War II through his innovative reconstructive surgery techniques.
* On 22 March 2001 he was appointed with the Croix de Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Order of Arts and Literature ), the highest rank for this award, for his services to cinema, in particular French cinema.
Zuckerman was awarded an honorary degree from Colby College and the Commandeur de L ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Among other honors, she was bestowed the UNESCO Award, the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Academy of Music of the West, Italy's Premio Giuseppe Verdi, and was named Commandeur des Arts et Lettres by the French government.
was and Légion
:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.
David was made a Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur in 1803.
" In the same month, Alexander was further honoured with induction into the French Légion d ' honneur.
The following year, Frédéric Hartmann commissioned Four Seasons for 25, 000 francs, and Millet was named Chevalier de la Légion d ' Honneur.
He was the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and he had previously refused the Légion d ' honneur, in 1945.
Iranian musician Shahram Nazeri was awarded the Légion d ' honneur and Iran's House of Music Award in 2007 for his renowned works on Rumi masterpieces.
He was an officer of infantry in World War I, rising to the rank of captain and being awarded the Légion d ' honneur.
Lescarbault, for his part, was awarded the Légion d ' honneur and invited to appear before numerous learned societies.
Sarah's birth records were lost in a fire in 1871, but in order to prove French citizenship, necessary for Légion d ' honneur eligibility, she created false birth records, on which she was the daughter of " Judith van Hard " and " Edouard Bernardt " from Le Havre, in later stories either a law student, accountant, naval cadet or naval officer.
After the outbreak of the First World War, he served in the Tank Corps as a tank commander in France, and was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) ( on 18 February 1918, for his actions at the Battle of Cambrai ), and the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur.
Ingres found himself celebrated throughout France ; in January 1825 he was awarded the Cross of the Légion d ' honneur, and in June 1825 he was elected to the Institute.
This was completed in time for a second inauguration ceremony on 6 October 1963, with Pierre Messmer, Minister of Armies, Jean Sainteny, Minister of veterans, Jacques Foccart, secretary general of the Communauté et les affaires africaines et malgaches, and General Georges Catroux, grand chancellor of the Légion d ' honneur.
In 1864 Berlioz was made Officier de la Légion d ' honneur.
Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur in 1892, for his work with the civil service.
* Luns was awarded many high-ranking awards during his lifetime, among them the Grand Cross of the Légion d ’ Honneur in 1954, Member of Order of Companions of Honour of the British Queen in 1971 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Alfred Dreyfus was reinstated into the French Army with his prior rank of Major, and made a Chevalier of the French Légion d ' honneur in July 1906.
He was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Légion d ' honneur in 1919.
He was honored by several countries, receiving the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the French Légion d ' honneur and the Silver Star.
On 4 November 2009, she was invested as a Chevalier of the Ordre National de la Légion d ' Honneur by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and presented by the Ambassador of France to Australia, Michel Filhol.
Finally, Dreyfus was promoted to the rank of Officier de la Légion d ' honneur in November 1918.
He was greatly decorated for his bravery in the war, receiving many medals and honours among which Compagnon de la Libération and commander of the Légion d ' honneur.
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