Sea Cliff resident Victoria Bjorklund was made a Knight of the Légion d’Honneur Wednesday night at the headquarters of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Bjorklund is a founding member of Princeton University’s first women’s basketball team, an erstwhile scholar of the Anglo-Norman dialect spoken by Viking invaders in Norman France, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders USA and founder of the Tax Exempt Organizations Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, the white-shoe New York City law firm.

But in her day job as a lawyer she facilitated decades of American philanthropy across the world and did the legal legwork to create the American nonprofit Friends of Fondation De France, which nominated her for knighthood. Through its platforms, Americans hav

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