#FPReels: France: Macron Honours Paris’ Last Newspaper Hawker French President Emmanuel Macron bestowed one of the country’s most prestigious honours on a 74-year-old newspaper hawker Ali Akbar, Akbar has spent more than 50 years crisscrossing Paris’ Latin Quarter, selling dailies on cafe terraces. Akbar was made a knight of the Grand Order of Merit, which recognises distinguished service to France in a civilian or military capacity, at the French presidential palace. Akbar has been hopping betw

President Emmanuel Macron is set to bestow one of France’s most prestigious honors on 73-year-old newspaper seller Ali Akbar, who has crisscrossed Paris’ Latin Quarter selling dailies on the terraces of the capital’s cafés for more than 50 years https://reut.rs/4lYW1RZ | Reuters