. The economist Thomas Piketty successful, although he refused Thursday the Legion of Honour, will be appointed to the Order of this distinction unless it decides, as did Maurice Ravel in 1920 to cancel the presidential decree of appointment.
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“When you refuse the Legion of Honor, the decree your appointment is not canceled provided” said Friday a spokesman of the Grand Chancellery of the Order. “Your refusal means that you waive receive your badge and, in fact, to become a member of the Order,” said he said.
There is nothing to prevent Thomas Piketty back later his decision. “By law, it is quite possible, even if it would be particularly misunderstood,” said Bertrand Galimard-Flavigny, author of “The Legion of Honour” (Discovery / Gallimard). The texts do not provide for this case, is it accurate to the Grand Chancellery.
He was appointed to the rank of Knight by decree of December 31, the author of the bestseller “The Capital the twenty-first Century “announced that he refused this distinction because he” did not think that it is the role of government to decide who is honorable “
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Vanity or humility?
The culmination of a process of selection, appointment to the Order Legion of Honour, validated by decree signed by the President of the Republic, is followed by a discount badge ceremony. For this ceremony, decorated future means a person, itself already decorated with an equivalent or higher rank, to give him his badge. A patent is then sent him by the great chancellor attesting to his membership in the Order.
If the musician Maurice Ravel, who demanded the cancellation of his appointment, remains unique to this day. “Named against his will by a decree of January 1920, Ravel had asked the Chancellor to take steps to ensure that this appointment is canceled, which was done by decree in April of the same year,” says Bertrand Galimard-Flavigny.
This refusal had caused this acerbic comment of his colleague, the composer Erik Satie, with whom he was cold, “Mr. Ravel refused the Legion of Honor, but all his music accepts it.”
Bertrand Galimard-Flavigny, the refusal of the Legion of honor can be seen as an act of vanity but be as “a sign of humility, as is the case for priests or leaders companies that declined the honor done them because they feel it should be shared, “he said.
According to Thierry Mandon, Secretary of State for reform State and simplification, “there are two reasons usually two refusals: humility, because we consider that others have earned more or political reason.” For “Thomas Piketty, I do not think that’s the first reason,” he slipped on Friday on BFM TV.
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