He joins figures like Mandela and Bob Dylan in receiving this prestigious distinction.

Gisele Pelicot has been given France’s highest award as part of Bastille Day celebrations that included a traditional military parade and fly-past.Ms Pelicot – a global symbol in the struggle against ...

France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the ...

France is marking its biggest national holiday, Bastille Day, with a spectacular display of military might and national pride ...

Bastille Day in France celebrates the storming of the Bastille in 1789, marking the start of the French Revolution. The event ...

Gisèle Pelicot, a survivor of horrific abuse, receives France’s Legion of Honour for her courage in testifying publicly ...

Pelicot's landmark case led to reforms in France's rape laws after she bravely testified about enduring a decade of sexual ...

Gisèle Pelicot, who became a symbol for women's rights in France during the rape trial against her ex-husband and dozens of ...

Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who earned international recognition after publicly testifying at her mass-rape trial last ...

Rape trial of Gisèle Pelicot being retold on Vienna stage Milo Rau's seven-hour reading revisits the exposed systemic failures exposed by Pelicot's historic trial and the societal shift she sparked.