US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles after being awarded
the Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor) medal,
at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, on December 10, 2016 (AFP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Posted on 12/11/2016 4:34:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Paris (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry has been given the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, with his French counterpart calling him "the most French of American officials".
At a ceremony in Paris on Saturday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also said the top US diplomat was a "tireless champion of peace".
"Francophone, Francophile, you are certainly the most French of American officials" Ayrault said.
Kerry's French heritage and fondness for the country saw him attacked on the presidential campaign trail in 2004, when he was the Democratic candidate running against Republican George W Bush.
Tensions were running high between Paris and Washington over the Iraq war, to the extent that America's beloved junk food, French Fries, were briefly renamed Freedom Fries, Ayrault said.
Kerry's mother and aunt were born in Paris in the early 1920s and America's top diplomat spent holidays as a young man at the family residence in Saint-Brignac-sur-Mer, in Brittany.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles after being awarded
the Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor) medal,
at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, on December 10, 2016 (AFP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Kerry, Kerry, Kerry.....
Say, wasn’t he in Vietnam once?
NOT Faux Nooz.. I don’t think so anyway. ;-)
Is it a likeness of a monkey eating cheese while waving a white flag?
So i guess he wont throw this one away?
Ah, c’est Jean Kerri!
I suppose that was meant as a compliment . . .
And the photo will certainly join my collection of classic Kerry images.
Another medal to toss over the White House fence. When he gets angry at Trump, he’ll do it in protest.
Buffoons rule...
Wow, just about as meritorious as His Arrogance’s Nobel Prize or a participation trophy in PeeWee baseball.
LOL!
John Kerry, the vietcong-loving surrender monkey.
John French Kerry.
Finally!
yep. it’s very french to shoot a 15 year old kid in the back with twin .50 cal machine guns. it’s also very french to have two Purple Hearts, but no limp.
and he immdiately threw the medal over a fence right? That John Kerry?
Hey the Globalists know how to honor their own......
Maybe he and Theresa can STAY in France...buy a Mansion on the Riviera...
and spend time with the elites at Davos an other such European playgrounds for the rich and famous...
I got an award a major award
Trump branded him the second worst secretary of state after Clinton
I was hoping that meant Legionnaire’s disease.
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