Kylie Minogue, Knight!

Did you know that women can be knights in France? In Britain they can only be boring old dames. On Monday I read a BBC News item about Kylie Minogue's receiving "France's highest cultural honour, the Order of Arts and Letters". (CLICK.) The BBC's translation is a bit iffy, to say the least. Kylie's website records that she was awarded the Chevalier Dans L'Orde Des Arts Et Des Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters). Kylie joins Ella Fitzgerald and Meryl Streep as a lady knight.