Ruler of Sharjah receives the "Legion of Honor with the rank of Supreme Commander" from the Republic of France
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His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, received the Legion of Honor with the rank of Supreme Commander, the highest national honor in the French Republic, which was awarded by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, to His Highness, and handed over by Nicolas Nimchinaw, Ambassador of the Republic of France to the UAE, this evening at Al Badi Palace.
This came in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, and His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah.
On this occasion, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah delivered a speech in which he thanked the French President for granting him the highest national decorations, saying: "We thank Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, who decided to grant us by decree the Legion of Honor with the rank of Supreme Commander, the highest national decoration, and I also thank the French Ambassador to the State Nicolas Nemchino for taking care of that trust that he delivered to us."
His Highness pointed out during his speech to honor the Republic of France earlier, saying: «On the twenty-second of July 2003, the French Republic honored me with my tradition»Order of the French Republic of Arts and Letters with the rank of Knight Commander«, in the Great Ballroom at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture and Communication in Paris, amid festive manifestations, and I delivered a speech in which I reviewed the leading role of the Republic of France in intellectual enlightenment and civilizational communication and its contributions in the cultural field, translation, literature and the extension of the concepts of freedom and justice, and thanked the French government for that honor, which I considered a mandate to continue cultural giving."
His Highness added: «Since that assignment, I have been collecting all that has been written about the cultural history of the French Republic, using the titles of books in the Egyptian Scientific Academy in Cairo, and I have an old friendship with the Academy, which was founded on the twenty-second of August 1798, where the head of the Institute at the time»Caspar Monge« and his deputy»Napoleon Bonaparte«Commander of the French forces in Egypt, I have collected nearly 8 thousand titles, and I decided to establish a scientific institute for those books similar to the French Institute as well as the Egyptian Institute, and I decided to be The Sharjah Institute is the third of the Athafi, and the Athafi are three stones on which the pot is placed."
His Highness touched in his speech to the events witnessed by the fire of the Egyptian complex, saying: «In the evening of the sixteenth of December 2011, I was in the city of Paris watching television, and if the Egyptian complex is burning and people are rushing and rushing to transfer burned books, and if sadness has pervaded all Egyptians, it has extended sinful hands to that complex, so I contacted one of the Egyptian channels and spoke through it to Egypt and its people I told them»Do not panic and do not grieve, everything that burned I have a copy of it, I will present it to the Egyptian Complex.
His Highness added: «Rebuilt the Egyptian Complex and provided all the books I acquired and were nearly 8 thousand title and I also put a financial deposit to the Egyptian Institute to keep it from destitution, I returned to collect all that I submitted to the Egyptian Academy again, as those French books are rare but I will finish collecting them soon, and I have started building the Sharjah Institute as well as began to write the cultural history of France, which consists of four chapters, the first chapter «Century of Lights«, in that eighteenth century the development of French society in various fields, intellectual, scientific, economic and political, and the components of Western society and civilization are the result of that era made by the ideas of intellectuals who were called in that era philosophers, such as «Denny Diderot» founder of the encyclopedia Encyclopedie «Encyclopedie» and in conjunction with «d'Alembert, and free philosophers in that century Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire».
His Highness went on to talk about his book, saying: «Chapter II»Century of lights still shines«That was in the nineteenth century, where the issue of «Dreyfus« and «Emile Zola«, where intellectuals appeared as a collective force, when they defended «Dreyfus« and get him out of prison, while the third chapter»The beautiful era«, was in the twentieth century, and who wanted to know what is in the beautiful era let him enter Sharjah, where it has universities, theaters, museums and libraries... etc., and the fourth chapter «controversial issues between globalization and cultural exception«, I show everything that revolved around globalization, and the theory of clash between cultures and civilizations as a logic to defend globalization, but France began to defend strongly the principle of cultural exception, as it was at the head of the European Union and I succeeded in doing so and I will publish this book to introduce all Arabs to French culture.
At the end of his speech, His Highness stressed that Sharjah opens its arms to all cooperation with friends in all ways and partners in this cultural orientation with which the French Republic is linked, wishing that relations between the two countries will continue further.