President Emmanuel Macron has awarded the country's top honor to the controversial top-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq, a scourge of the establishment for his bitter denunciations of modern France. Macron bestowed the Legion d'honneur on Houellebecq at a ceremony late on Thursday, the Elysee Palace said. The discreet ceremony was attended by high-ranking guests from the world of publishing and politics, including former president Nicolas Sarkozy, participants said. Also present was the singer Jean-Louis Aubert, who set Houellebecq's poems to music, and the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut. Macron hailed Houellebecq, 63, as a "romantic in a material world" and arg...
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