Mayor of Lyon Georges Kepenekian Awarded France’s Legion of Honour medal

(Lyon Capitale) – As announced by presidential decree in December 2017, Georges Kepenekian was decorated with the Legion of Honor. He received the insignia of Chevalier, the first rank, this Friday in the City Hall, from the hands of Alain Mérieux, the president of Institut Mérieux. The Minister of the Interior, Gerard Collomb, paid homage to him in a speech.

The Legion of Honour (full name: National Order of the Legion of Honour; French: Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur) is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Ministry of Solidarity and Health of France has proposed the mayor of Lyon as a candidate for the Legion of Honor, highlighting his 43 years of service as a physician and former head of the urology department at the Saint-Joseph Hospital Center. St. Luke. The Mayor of Lyon recalled his childhood as an Armenian immigrant in the 8th arrondissement before his grandson brought him his decoration.