Image: Journalist Chloé Woitier of Le Figaro On the morning of October 23, 2026, Eiji Aonuma, the longtime producer of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series, was formally invested as a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris.⁠ The ceremony marked the culmination of an honor first announced in November 2023 by then-Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak during Paris Games Week. The presentatio