Now you can call him Officier Young. Born in the French-bathed New Orleans and having visited the European country for the first time at age 21, Ambassador Andrew Young was awarded the French Legion ...

World War II veteran King Henry Roberson Sr. is now a knight of the French Legion of Honor. The 92-year-old received France’s highest honor Friday morning during a ceremony at the Missouri Veterans ...

Edouard Elias first embedded with the French Foreign Legion in the summer of 2014 during France’s military intervention in Central African Republic. At first, the legionnaires were wary of yet another ...

PARIS (AP) — American screen icon Clint Eastwood was made a commander in France’s prestigious Legion of Honor on Friday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented the 79-year-old actor and director ...

What drives a man to fight and die for a country not his own? Jean-Vincent Blanchard takes up this question in his lyrical, detailed history of the French Foreign Legion. His book chronicles the ...

World War II veteran Gordon Oro of Stoughton — honored with the French Legion of Honor this week — said what he and thousands of other vets went through is beyond imagination. “There are no words that ...

WINDSOR – Five times Monday afternoon, French Consul General Christophe Lemoine spoke in French, pinned a Legion of Honor medal on an elderly Colorado veteran of the European Theater in World War II, ...

Guillaume Lacroix, left, Consul General of France to the Midwest, presented Roy D. Sees of Belpre with the French Legion of Honor medal during a ceremony Wednesday at the Belpre Masonic Lodge. Sees ...

CTA president and CEO Gary Shapiro (left) received the French Legion of Honor award from President of France Emmanuel Macron (right) Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® president and CEO Gary ...

Suicide Squad, next summer’s supervillain movie featuring characters like the Joker, Harley Quinn, Rick Flagg and the Enchantress teaming up together in an insane task force, might not seem like it ...