*    Achille Le Bel Grand Prize of the French Chemical Society (1979)
*    Pierre Desnuelle Prize from the French Academy of sciences (1996)
*    Medal of the Berthelot Foundation (1996)
*    Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (2007)
*    Elected Correspondent of the French Academy of sciences (1996)
*    Honorary doctorate from the University of Lisbon (2005)
*    Elected member of the French Academy of sciences (2003)
*    Haworth Memorial Reading and Haworth Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain, 2011).
*    Associate Member of the National Academy of Pharmacy (2016).
*    Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Commandeur of the Palmes Académiques.