FRANCE - Lot of 7 decorations: Academic Palms; National Society for the Encouragement of Good in the name of Mr. Léon Bassée 1913; Combatant Cross (x2); UNC; Labor Medal (x3). A fourragère, a pair of collar tabs of Doctor, 2 rosettes and 2 ribbons are attached. Expert : Gaëtan Brunel. Provenance: Léon Bassée, former owner of the Douai newspaper, appointed in 1927 as head of the political service and administrator of the Havas Agency which will become the French Office of Information (OFI) then the France-Presse Agency (AFP) in 1944. Léon Bassée followed the official trips of French presidents and ministers abroad. It was on these occasions that he received decorations. In 1929, he collaborated on the last interviews of Clémenceau which were published the day after the latter's death under the title "Le Testament politique du Tigre".