Claude-France Arnould | |
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| Assumed office 1 October 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Bernard Valero |
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| Born | 14 August 1953 |
Claude-France Arnould (born 14 August 1953) [1] is a French diplomat. She was Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency from 17 January 2011 until 31 January 2015. She was Ambassador of France to Belgium from October 2015 to April 2019.
The Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued to members of the eight uniformed services of the United States as well as to military and political figures of foreign governments.
The National Order of the Legion of Honour,formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour,is the highest French order of merit,both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte,it has been retained by all later French governments and regimes.
Prince Joachim of Denmark,Count of Monpezat,is a member of the Danish royal family. The younger son of Queen Margrethe II,he is fifth in the line of succession to the Danish throne,following the four children of his elder brother King Frederik X.
Jean-Claude Trichet is a French economist who served as President of the European Central Bank from 2004 to 2011. Previous to his assumption of the presidency he served as Governor of the Bank of France from 1993 to 2004.
Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourgish politician who was the 23rd prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and 12th president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. He also was Finance Minister from 1989 to 2009 and President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013.
Claude Chirac,is the youngest daughter of French president Jacques Chirac and was her father's personal advisor from 1994 until his death in 2019.
Dimitris Avramopoulos is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party,and former career diplomat. He has served in various high-level cabinet posts,including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for National Defence,and was Mayor of Athens in 1995–2002. He served as EU Commissioner for Migration,Home Affairs and Citizenship in the Juncker Commission between 2014 and 2019.
Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac is a French politician and the widow of the former president Jacques Chirac.
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Yvette Chauviré was a French prima ballerina assoluta and actress. She is often described as France's greatest ballerina,and was the coach of prima ballerinas Sylvie Guillem and Marie-Claude Pietragalla. She was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1964.
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Carl Otto Lenz is a German lawyer,member of the German Bundestag (1965–1984) for the CDU and Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (1984–1997).
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Julian-Nicolas Rèche was a French Roman Catholic religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools;he assumed the religious name of "Arnould" upon his profession in the congregation and became a noted educator.
Yvette Henriette Lévy is a French educator and survivor of the Holocaust. In July 1944,she was arrested by the Gestapo and was eventually sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived and now educates youths about her experiences. Lévy is a Commander of the National Order of Merit and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
The Jade-Amicol network was a French resistance network led by Claude Arnould and British officer Captain Philip Keun,created under the auspices of the British Secret Intelligence Service,commonly known as MI6. It operated from 1940 to 1944.
Claude Louis Marie Joseph Arnould,also known as Colonel Arnould,Colonel Ollivier and other cryptonyms,was a French officer,intelligence agent,resistance leader,businessman and diplomat. During World War II,he was the co-leader of the Jade-Amicol resistance network under the auspices of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS),commonly known as MI6.
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