Former French prime minister Francois Fillon was on Tuesday given a four-year suspended prison sentence over a fake jobs scandal ...

He is the second former Head of State to lose the highest honor of the French Republic. Former President of the Republic ...

Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been stripped of the country’s highest honour by a public decree, expelling him from the Legion of Honour.The decree was given a retroactive effect from ...

A makeshift memorial for Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark is seen at the state Capitol, Sunday, June ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy attends a meeting in Asnières-sur-Seine, outside Paris, 24 March 2015.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honor medal after he was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling while he was the country’s head of state ...

Sarkozy is only the second former French leader to have the Legion of Honour medal taken away - the first was infamous Nazi ...

There has been speculation Sarkozy could lose France's top distinction, the Legion of Honour, over his judicial entanglements. General Francois Lecointre -- France's former military chief of staff ...

Nicolas Sarkozy and Emmanuel Macron during a commemoration marking the 106th anniversary of the armistice, in Paris on November 11, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP At least for now, Nicolas Sarkozy has ...