What happened so far?

• France’s top court upheld his conviction for influence peddling, corruption

• Found guilty of trying to bribe a judge for confidential info on his 2007 campaign

• Already convicted for illegal financing during his failed 2012 bid; now on trial for allegedly taking funds from Libya’s Gaddafi

• Only one other French president has lost the Legion of Honour: Nazi collaborator Philippe Petain, in 1945

• Others stripped of the honour include Bashar al Assad, Lance Armstrong and Harvey Weinstein