Yahoo – AFP, 3 June 2013
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| US folk singer Bob Dylan performs during the Vieilles Charrues music festival in Carhaix-Plouguer, France, on July 22, 2012. |
Bob Dylan's
pot-smoking and protesting past will not, after all, prevent him from receiving
France's highest honour.
The US
veteran folk singer has been nominated by Aurelie Filippetti, the culture
minister and an avowed Dylan fan, to be awarded the Legion d'Honneur.
The move
was thrown into doubt last month when Jean-Louis Georgelin, the Grand
Chancellor of the Legion, blocked the nomination, reportedly because of
reservations about Dylan's use of cannabis and anti-war politics.
But
Georgelin said on Monday that Dylan's candidacy had since been approved following
a review by the Legion's board of the "chaotic life and lyrics of an
exceptional artist who is recognised in his own country and throughout the
world as a major singer and a great poet."
"The
board has now transmitted a favourable opinion to the president of the republic
and the minister of culture will shortly be able to appoint Bob Dylan to the
Legion d'Honneur," Georgelin told Le Monde.
The army
general acknowledged that he had opposed Dylan's nomination being approved
without a proper review of the singer's past.
"I
could see no justification for bypassing the normal procedure," he said.
Presuming
he accepts the award, Dylan will be following in the footsteps of former Beatle
Paul McCartney, who received the Legion d'Honneur in September 2012.
Established
by Napoleon, the Order of the Legion d'Honneur honours individuals who have
served France in various ways.
Foreigners
do not formally become members of the order but are decorated with the insignia
of the legion in recognition of service to France or work that is deemed to
uphold the ideals of the country.
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