He was part of the July 14 promo. Renaud Line was elevated this Friday to the highest distinction of the Republic, that of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. It was Emmanuel Macron who decorated it at the Elysee.
“I have stage fright, and Line too, I know, has stage fright. But there are no stairs to go down tonight, only people who love you,” Emmanuel Macron began in his speech. The President of the Republic returned to the origins of the singer, the career of her mother and her grandmother, as well as her commitment and the stature of Line Renaud.
“For a President of the Republic, you are an invitation to humility. You have known this house for a long time, it has aroused the friendship and admiration of almost all the occupants of these places. (…) We pass, and you come back”, Emmanuel Macron still pointed out, provoking some laughter in the assembly.
“I share this decoration with all the French”
The doctor Jean-François Delfraissy, as well as Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, president of Sidaction and Nobel Prize in Medicine, attended the decoration of Line Renaud, co-founder of this association to fight HIV. Dany Boon, Muriel Robin, Claude Chirac, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Nana Mouskouri, Nathalie Baye or Pierre Harditi: many personalities have also made the trip.
“It was all in those eyes. You know, it’s the only part of the body that can’t lie, so when we saw Line Renaud’s eyes, we just saw beautiful things,” actor Claude Lelouch, also present, told us.
The singer and actress, co-founder of Sidaction, had already expressed her “tremendous emotion” at the idea of receiving this Legion of Honor in July.
“I think it is my various struggles that we salute, in particular my 37 years of fighting AIDS, he had pointed out on Twitter. I thank the President for this appointment, as well as my country that has given me so much this decoration.” I share it with all French people, who have always been in my heart”.
Line Renaud also bets on the right die with dignity. He spoke on the subject in the National Assembly in September 2021, together with the deputy Olivier Falorni, drafter of a bill presented in November 2017, granting “the right to a free and chosen end of life”. He also signed last August a forum in the Sunday newspaper in favor of the legalization of active assistance when dying in France.
Source: BFM TV
