Something for this year's Honours List winners to ponder
Monday, January 05, 2009That I am none too keen on the honours system is a matter of record, and accordingly I take a great deal of pleasure from the refusal of Legions d'Honneur by a pair of French journos:
Françoise Fressoz (head political writer at Le Monde):
"Nothing in my professional work justifies such an honour".
Marie-Eve Malouines (head political writer at France Info):
"I can see nothing in my work which would justify such an honour, and that is why I consider myself obliged to to refuse this prestigious decoration".
As these two honourable ladies were gazetted without prior notification, it is not a case of the two of them trying to have their gateau, eat it and exhibit it at Olympia CakeEx, the way some types in these parts have done.
Hell will freeze over before some of the wretched time servers that fill out the honours list - alongside the usual selection of celebrities named to tickle the fancy of the Plain People of the United Kingdom - would consider such a thing.
Françoise Fressoz (head political writer at Le Monde):
"Nothing in my professional work justifies such an honour".
Marie-Eve Malouines (head political writer at France Info):
"I can see nothing in my work which would justify such an honour, and that is why I consider myself obliged to to refuse this prestigious decoration".
As these two honourable ladies were gazetted without prior notification, it is not a case of the two of them trying to have their gateau, eat it and exhibit it at Olympia CakeEx, the way some types in these parts have done.
Hell will freeze over before some of the wretched time servers that fill out the honours list - alongside the usual selection of celebrities named to tickle the fancy of the Plain People of the United Kingdom - would consider such a thing.
Labels: France, Honours system
