US singer-songwriter Patti Smith reads from her book “The Coral Sea” on stage after receiving the highest French order of merit “Legion d’Honneur” during the “Night of Ideas” event at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York, on Saturday (Photo: AFP)
As a child, punk-poet icon Patti Smith was instructed never to accept anything from strangers — which meant one day she was forced to decline a campaign button she coveted and everyone else had.
While dejectedly walking to her New Jersey family home, she vowed to her future self that she would soon acquire her own medals to add to her lapel.
On Saturday, the 75-year-old rock legend made good on that promise, as France’s ambassador to the United States Philippe…
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