Tiny, apple-cheeked Sister Mary Agnes cast her eyes down as the hulking figure of Charles de Gaulle stooped to pin a memento on her collar.
The President of France and war hero was honoring the diminutive nun with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor medal for her many decades of teaching French at the school Notre Dame des Victoires in San Francisco.
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