According to E! Online:
This morning, French President Nicolas Sarkozy not only welcomed the Oscar winner into the French Legion of Honor, but elevated him to a ranking normally out of bounds for foreigners—that of commander.
The honor is one of the nation’s highest and is reserved for those who have made great cultural contributions to the country, a point not lost on Eastwood, who referred to France as his “second home” and to Sarkozy, jokingly, as “my president.”
“This is a wonderful honor,” he said. “It is just a great pleasure for me. I really love France. I love movies, and I love the appreciation that the French people have for movies.”
We here at PressBack are huge Clint Eastwood fans and don’t normally post these types of stories but in honor of Clint, here it is.
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