Très honorable avec félicitations
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Très honorable avec félicitations, meaning "Highly Honorable with Praises", is the highest academic distinction awarded for doctorates in the French academic system. Equivalent to the US Summa Cum Laude. Honors for the doctorate in the French system are based solely on the quality of the research thesis. This honor used to be much easier to obtain than its U.S. equivalent. Since the early 1990s, however, it has been increasingly difficult to obtain, and this honor is usually now reserved for the top 10% of a class of Ph.D candidates.
