"the French government on 29 November 2014, as part of the 70th anniversary of the battle of Normandy. Phyllis Latour Phyllis ""Pippa"" Latour (born 8 April 1921) MBE, was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Latour's father, Philippe, was a French doctor and married to Louise, a British citizen living in South Africa, where Phyllis was born in 1921. Her father died three months later in French Equatorial Africa (AEF) and her mother remarried three years later. Her stepfather was a racing driver, and would let his new wife race his automobiles as well."
"tie up her hair. At one point, she was brought in for questioning, but the German authorities did not think to examine her hair tie, and she was released. After World War II, Latour married an engineer with the surname Doyle, and went to live in Kenya (East Africa), Fiji, and Australia. She now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She did not discuss her wartime activities with her family until her children discovered them by reading about them on the Internet in 2000. Latour was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (Knight of the Legion of Honour), by"
"D.C., Richmond, Virginia, New York City, and Quebec. On November 12, 1890, while in Philadelphia, Philippe joined the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) - a military society composed of officers who had served the Union in the American Civil War and their descendants, as a companion of the 2nd class - a membership category for the eldest sons of companions of the 1st class who were veteran officers. He was assigned MOLLUS insignia number 8262. Upon his father's death on September 8, 1894, he became a hereditary companion of the"
"officers hold or achieve baccalaureate degrees, set the goal for its officer to complete an accredited program leading to an undergraduate degree, preferably in nursing. She presided over the Corps during the first year of the Korean War. She received the Legion of Merit among her awards and honors. Phillips was born on December 2, 1903, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. After attending and graduating from Medford Area Senior High School, and then University of Wisconsin–Madison, to become a teacher, she worked as a clerk and teacher for four years in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, Lime Ridge, Wisconsin and Medford, Wisconsin."
"that were documented as being carried out under he FLRN death squads that he led between 2000 and 2004. Philippe was born in Pestel, in the province of Grand'Anse. He obtained his primary and secondary education at Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague. Human Rights watch alleges that in his late teens he was a death squad leader during the rebellion against Baby Doc Duvalier and in the turmoil which followed. According to Philippe, he ""has a law degree from Ecuador and studied medicine in Mexico for a year."" In 1992, he received a scholarship from the Haitian Armed Forces (FAd'H) to"
"Church of Our Lady of Laeken. Damien Bilteryst, Philippe Comte de Flandre, Frère de Léopold II, Bruxelles, Editions Racine, juin 2014, 336 p. Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (24 March 1837 – 17 November 1905) was the third born (but second surviving) son of Leopold I, King of the Belgians and his wife Louise d'Orléans (1812–1850). He was born at the Château de Laeken, near Brussels, Belgium. He was created Count of Flanders on 14 December 1840, and on his 18th birthday in 1855 he received the Grand Cordon of the Order of"
"Order of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit by the government of France. Jean-Pierre Rives was born on 31 December 1952 in Saint-Simon, a suburb of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne, Occitan departement of southwestern France. He grew up with his brother Philippe in the family of Jo and Lydia Rives. Jean-Pierre started drawing and painting in primary school – a passion that would stay with him throughout his whole life. His father was a pilot and an avid tennis player, and he encouraged his son, who excelled in athletics at early age, to pursue tennis, but"
"the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The false information Pujol supplied helped persuade the Germans that the main attack would be in the , so that they kept large forces there before and even after the invasion. Pujol had the distinction of receiving military decorations from both sides of the war—being awarded the Iron Cross and becoming a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Pujol was born in Barcelona on 14 February 1914 (or possibly 28 February 1912) to"
"Pippa Middleton Philippa Charlotte Matthews (née Middleton; born 6 September 1983) is an English socialite, author, and columnist. The younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, she began receiving media attention with her appearance as the maid of honour at her sister's wedding to Prince William. Pippa Middleton was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is the second of three children born to Michael Middleton (born 1949), a former British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Middleton (""née"" Goldsmith; born 1955), a former flight attendant. She was christened at St Andrew's Bradfield, Berkshire. In 1995, her family"
"period when, just after the Paris Commune of 1871, France had just lost Alsace-Lorraine and defamed itself at the time of the Commune of Paris, had so much need for positive heroes. Juliette Dodu Juliette Dodu (Saint-Denis de la Réunion, June 15, 1848 – October 28, 1909) was a legendary heroine of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the first woman to be awarded the Legion of Honor. However, many doubts have been raised about her actions during the war, and her story remains controversial. Juliette Dodu was Born in Réunion, the daughter of Alphonse Dodu, a navy surgeon originally"
"the Legion of Honor, her life is remembered in a small, permanent exhibit in the Hall of Deportation in the Musée du Château de Flers (Museum of the Castle of Flers) at Flers de l'Orne. Born on July 23, 1921 in France's Normandy region in the community of Flers and baptized at the Roman Catholic church in St. Germain, Paulette Duhalde was the only child of M. Edouard Duhalde. Her mother operated a cafe in Flers. A ""green-eyed brunette"" who enjoyed spending time in the small garden of her family's Rue du Champ-de-Foire home, she reportedly read detective and espionage"
"Geneviève Callerot Geneviève Callerot, born 6 May 1916, is a french farmer and novelist. In World War II with her father and sister, she assisted more than 200 people in passing the demarcation line from the occupied french territory to Zone libre, the unoccupied territory of Vichy France. In 2018, Geneviève Callerot 102 years old, was awarded by becoming a member of the Legion of Honour. Geneviève Callerot was born in Paris. Before end of World War I she escaped the Paris shelling by the German siege guns to Périgord and settled in Saint-Aulaye (Département Dordogne). She took homeschooling by"
"decades, in 1983 her book ""Les Cinq Filles du Grand-Barrail"" became a success. On August 24, 2018 she became member of the Legion of Honour. The award was handed out by former member of departmental council of Dordogne Gérard Fayolle. Rejecting former offers, as an honor to her parents she accepted this award. Geneviève Callerot Geneviève Callerot, born 6 May 1916, is a french farmer and novelist. In World War II with her father and sister, she assisted more than 200 people in passing the demarcation line from the occupied french territory to Zone libre, the unoccupied territory of Vichy"
"Juliette Dodu Juliette Dodu (Saint-Denis de la Réunion, June 15, 1848 – October 28, 1909) was a legendary heroine of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the first woman to be awarded the Legion of Honor. However, many doubts have been raised about her actions during the war, and her story remains controversial. Juliette Dodu was Born in Réunion, the daughter of Alphonse Dodu, a navy surgeon originally from Indre, and Desaïffre de Pellegrin, a créole. Her father died of yellow fever when she was two. In 1864, at the age of sixteen, she left the island with her mother,"
"Pierre was born in 1912 at Belfort. His father was an active duty career officer and captain in the 42nd Infantry Regiment (), killed during World War I in 1916 at Marne without ever seeing his family since the outbreak of the war in August 1914. Pierre was raised by the paternal sight of his mother and enlisted in the infantry at barely 18 years of age. Pierre enlisted in the 131st Infantry Regiment as a soldier in 1930 and worked being seconded from the enlisted corps by passing by all the non-commissioned ranks, graduating second from the Infantry and"
"to escape from the Gestapo who had been waiting for her at the school gates. In October 1943, with the threat of capture being too great, she escaped France to England via Gibraltar. Having reached the safety of London in December 1943, she joined the ""Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action"" (BCRA), the Free French intelligence service. She returned to France following the liberation of Paris in August 1944. In recognition of her war service, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Considered overlooked by the post-war government, she was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2016. She"
"coterie of Madam d'Angivilliers and benefits from it to meet this young graduate in this living room of the street of the Oratory, in Paris. He is not a husband as sedentary as his ""vénérable"" father statement he goes elsewhere to separate from its wife. Philippe Louis de Noailles Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine, comte de Noailles, prince-duc de Poix, and 2nd Spanish and 1st French duc de Mouchy (21 November or 21 December 1752 — 17 February 1819), was a French soldier, and politician of the Revolution. The son of Philippe de Noailles and grandson of Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, he was"
"the church of Saint Jacques-sur-Coudenberg in Brussels on 17 May, and named Philippe after his great-great-grandfather Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders. His godparents were his paternal grandfather, King Leopold III, and his maternal grandmother, Donna Luisa, Princess Ruffo di Calabria. From 1978 to 1981, Philippe was educated at the Belgian Royal Military Academy in the 118th ""Promotion Toutes Armes"". On 26 September 1980, he was appointed second lieutenant and took the officer's oath. He continued his education at Trinity College, Oxford and he attended graduate school at Stanford University, California, where he graduated in 1985 with an MA degree in"
"award at the French César Awards in 2017. When receiving her prize she dedicated the film to victims of police violence. Alice Diop Alice Diop, born in 1979, is a documentary filmmaker, who makes films about contemporary French society. Born in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 1979, daughter of Senegalese parents, Alice Diop was raised until she was ten in the Cité des 3000 housing project In Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris. At University she began studying history, then studied sociology in Évry gaining her DESS degree. Fifteen years after leaving Aulnay-sous-Bois, she returned to film the cultural diversity of the area she grew up"
"in May 1794, he was transferred to another division which he led in operations around Ypres in June. During the winter of 1794 he participated in the invasion of the Dutch Republic. After garrison duty in Holland he commanded interior posts in France during the Napoleonic Wars. The exception came in 1809 when he led a reserve infantry division. He lived long enough to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur in 1856 in the reign of Napoleon III before dying a few months later at the age of 95. Despeaux was born on 14 October 1761 at"
"Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders Prince Philippe of Belgium, Count of Flanders (24 March 1837 – 17 November 1905) was the third born (but second surviving) son of Leopold I, King of the Belgians and his wife Louise d'Orléans (1812–1850). He was born at the Château de Laeken, near Brussels, Belgium. He was created Count of Flanders on 14 December 1840, and on his 18th birthday in 1855 he received the Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold. He was the heir presumptive to the Belgian throne, from 1869 (upon the death of his nephew) until his own death in"
"It is shown under column number 26 Pierre-Louis Dupas Count of the Empire Pierre-Louis Dupas (13 February 1761 – 6 March 1823) was a French soldier who rose to prominence during the French Revolutionary Wars, was noted for his association with Napoleon Bonaparte, and rose to the top military rank of General of Division during the Napoleonic Wars. A fiery commander, often noted for bravery, Dupas was often wounded in action, triggering physical infirmities, which eventually forced him to retire from active service, at first temporarily, in 1809 and then permanently, in late 1813. A native of Évian in Savoy,"
"Pierre-Louis Dupas Count of the Empire Pierre-Louis Dupas (13 February 1761 – 6 March 1823) was a French soldier who rose to prominence during the French Revolutionary Wars, was noted for his association with Napoleon Bonaparte, and rose to the top military rank of General of Division during the Napoleonic Wars. A fiery commander, often noted for bravery, Dupas was often wounded in action, triggering physical infirmities, which eventually forced him to retire from active service, at first temporarily, in 1809 and then permanently, in late 1813. A native of Évian in Savoy, then a part of the Kingdom of"
"the Arc de Triomphe. Pierre Belon Lapisse Pierre Belon Lapisse, Baron de Sainte-Hélène (25 November 1762 – 30 July 1809) commanded an infantry division in Napoleon's armies and was fatally wounded fighting against the British in the Peninsular War. He enlisted in the French Army during the reign of Louis XVI and fought in the American Revolutionary War. Appointed an officer at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, he rose in rank to become a general officer by 1799. From 1805 to 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars, he led a brigade in the Grande Armée at Dornbirn, Jena, Kołoząb,"
"a Commander of the Legion of Honor after the war, and raised again to the ""dignity"" of Grand Officer. Fonck was born on 27 March 1894 in the village of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe in the Vosges region of north eastern France. During his formative years, he would have received an engineering education at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers - a point that is still in debate since there is no record of this assertion. Fonck actually left school when he was 13. Although he had been interested in aviation from his youth, he was rejected for immediate incorporation in the"
"Lise de Baissac Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE (11 May 1905 – 28 March 2004) was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality. She was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, a special agent who risked her life running her own operations; she was awarded several gallantry awards after the war. The third of three children, Lise was born to a French family in Mauritius, but was a British subject as all Mauritians then were. Her parents taught her and her siblings French from an early age and they moved to"
"department in northeastern France. He was the second child of Frédéric Rimbaud (7 October 1814 – 16 November 1878) and Marie Catherine Vitalie Cuif (10 March 1825 – 16 November 1907). Rimbaud's father, a Burgundian of Provençal extraction, was an infantry captain risen from the ranks; he had spent much of his army career abroad. From 1844 to 1850, he participated in the conquest of Algeria, and in 1854 was awarded the Legion of Honor ""by Imperial decree"". Captain Rimbaud was described as ""good-tempered, easy-going and generous"". with the long moustaches and goatee of a Chasseur officer. In October 1852,"
"Frederick Coppins Frederick George Coppins (25 October 1889 – 20 March 1963) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in England and served with the Royal West Kent Regiment before the First World War. He then emigrated to Canada, settling in Winnipeg. He was 28 years old, and a corporal in the 8th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded"
"mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart. She had an older brother, also Gerard, and a younger sister, Griselda. Her father was of Irish descent but had been brought up in Paris; and her mother had studied in Brussels and Paris. Consequently, Diana was imbued with French culture and language from an early age. Her father died of typhoid fever in 1916, when Diana was aged only three. In 1920, when she was seven, her mother married again, to Cecil Harcourt, a naval officer who eventually became Second Sea Lord and was knighted as Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt in 1945. Diana"
"Excellent Order of the British Empire, the Croix de guerre, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Peggy Knight Marguerite Diana Frances ""Peggy"" Knight (later Smith) MBE (19 April 1920 – 2004) was a member of the Women's Transport Service who served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section. Marguerite Knight, best known by her nickname ""Peggy,"" was born 19 April 1920 in Paris, France, the daughter of Capt. Alfred Rex Knight and his wife, the former Charlotte Beatrice Mary Ditkowski. She worked as a shorthand typist for the"
"cancer in 1979 and was given the Order of Canada at her hospital bed. She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980. Of French and English descent, LaMarsh was born in Chatham, Ontario, and raised in Niagara Falls. Although she trained as a teacher, she never taught school. During World War II, she enlisted in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, travelled the country from 1943 to 1946, and attained the rank of sergeant. LaMarsh worked with the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers in Halifax and then, after studying Japanese in"
"Air Force general. The US Air Force Association's highest award for nursing is named in her honor. Hipps was born in Swansea, South Carolina on July 1, 1912. She trained as a nurse at the South Carolina State Hospital and joined the United States Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was posted to Manila in the Philippines in 1939. After the 1941 outbreak of war between Japan and the United States, Hipps was posted to Bataan and Corregio where she became known as one of the Angels of Bataan during the war's early months. Unlike most of the nurses in"
"nominee, she received an Honorary César in 2001 and France's Legion of Honour in 2002. She was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, and received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards. In 2015, she released her autobiography, which she wrote in French, titled ""Qui Je Suis,"" or ""Who I Am."" She later worked on an English translation, which was due to be published in March 2017. Rampling was born in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne (née Gurteen; 1918–2001), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling (1909–2009), an Olympic gold medalist and"