MP Šojdrová awarded high state distinction

Christian Democrat MP Michaela Šojdrová is to be awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour, a high French state decoration, for contributing to the development of good relations between the two countries. She will be presented with the order by the French Ambassador to Prague Charles Fries on April 16. Among those who have received the Order of the Legion of Honour are the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the former president Václav Havel, Ombudsman Otakar Motejl, writer Milan Kundera and artist František Kupka.