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Comment puis-je accepter l’Ordre de la Jarretière, alors que le peuple d’Angleterre vient de me donner l’Ordre du Pied au derrière ?
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Winston S Churchill, September 1945. Following the July 1945 election, when Churchill and his government were put out of office, King George VI offered him the Order of the Garter, which he declined.
