France, Oct. 21 -- French President Emmanuel Macron is to lead tributes to Samuel Paty in a ceremony at Sorbonne University on Wednesday evening. The teacher, beheaded by an Islamist terrorist last week, will be awarded the nation's highest decoration, the Legion d'honneur.

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Among the 400 people attending the service will be former French presidents, the French government and key establishment figures. One hundred school pupils have also been asked to attend.

The ceremony, to start at 7:30 pm Paris time,is to be held in the presence of Paty's family, in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, France's oldest university and a symbol of the Enlightenment.

Paty will be awarded the Legion...