Freshly honoured

Unexpected Recipients of the French Legion of Honour on this year's Bastille Day

KIMORA LEE-SIMMONS for outstanding contribution to the national luxury goods sector

DAN BROWN for accomplishment in the field of tourism through his excellent travel guide of Paris

HERMES for extraordinary bravery and devotion to duty while upholding official store opening hours in the face of Forbes most powerful celebrity

PARIS HILTON for bestowing untold prestige and classiness upon the City of Light by virtue of name association

LANCE ARMSTRONG in return for cycling a little bit slower in the Tour de France

OLIVIER MARTINEZ for inspirational achievement in sexiness and the promotion of mass swooning

JOHNNY DEPP for exemplary service to the beret