Très honorable avec félicitations

Très honorable avec félicitations du jury, meaning "Highly Honorable with Praise", is the highest academic distinction awarded for doctorates in the French academic university system, equivalent to the US Summa Cum Laude. Honors for the doctorate in the French system are based on several factors, including the topic of the research, the research itself, the writing and organization of the thesis (doctoral dissertation) and also the debate with the jury during the defense of the thesis. Those awarded make up less than 2% of the candidates for doctorate. However the academic distinction are no longer issued by most of university in particular in science. Thus the academic distinctions are no longer official.