French World Cup champions awarded Legion of Honour
23 players were honored France's top medal for their outstanding performance in the World Cup.
PARIS (AFP) - The players in France s football team which last year won the World Cup, on Tuesday were awarded the Legion of Honour in the new year s honours list.
The 23 players, including star strikers Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann, each received France s top medal for their part in beating Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow.
The French team that won the 1998 World Cup also received the Legion of Honour.
A total of 402 people -- half men, half women -- were on this year s list, including French writer Michel Houellebecq, whose latest book "Serotonin" is to be published later this month.
Houellebecq became a pin-up of France s far right after publishing "Submission", with its vision of a France subject to sharia law after electing a Muslim president in 2022.
Others included Marin Sauvageon, a student who was badly beaten up in Lyon in November 2016 after standing up to a gang that was insulting a kissing couple.
