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Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Captain Frederick Marryat
, FM
's father, was a distinguished naval officer renowned for conspicuous gallantry, a Fellow of the Royal Society
and member of the Légion d'Honneur
, a spectacular success as a novelist... |
politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC
. This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur
, awarded in 1950. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 277 Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1953. 187 |
Reception | Colette | She later became its president. In February 1953 she received the Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur
(only the second woman to do so). “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (19 February 1953): 8 |
Reception | Graham Greene | Well before he settled in France, in 1969, GG
's honours included being appointed by the French government Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Reception | Marcel Proust | This volume brought Proust fame and a growing international readership. France, Peter, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Clarendon Press, 1995. |
Reception | Rebecca West | She was also a member of the Légion d'Honneur
. Dinnage, Rosemary. “Big Thinks”. London Review of Books, pp. 42 - 3. 43 |
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