He was given official thanks, and decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor.

That he was to succeed, and to win the official thanks of Congress are now matters of history.

When Birnier had dragged him within and cut his bonds, he had grunted curt, official thanks for the rescue.

Gavard, the French Charge d'Affaires, told me that England and Russia received official thanks from France for preventing war by pressure at Berlin.