- Obituary: Death Jacques Chirac, the last Gaullist
- France: The political class says goodbye to Chirac, a "fighter", a "man of state" and a "reference" for society
France dismisses Jacques Chirac with two funerals, one intimate, without cameras. Another solemn, broadcast live on television . The first was attended by his widow, Bernadette, whose state of health advised against the emotion and duration of the state ceremony.
The intimate religious office has taken place in the cathedral of the diocese of the French armies, St. Louis, in the Invalids. The president of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, has then presided over military honors in the courtyard of honor.
The coffin has been taken to the church of San Sulpicio, the largest in Paris after Notre Dame, closed since the fire. The solemn funeral will be officiated by the archbishop of the capital diocese, Michel Aupetit.
Macron is accompanied by the three former presidents alive: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande . Thirty heads of state attend. Among them, those of Germany, Frank Walter Steinmeier ; Italy, Sergio Mattarella , and Russia, Vladimir Putin . Macron will not speak in the cathedral and will receive the dignitaries present at the Elysium.
Among the politicians of the Chirac times who will attend are the former US presidents, Bill Clinton , and the Spanish José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero .
Chirac will be buried in family intimacy, in the cemetery of Montparnasse where his daughter Laurence lies.
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