While the US government waited Sunday to pay tribute to Jacques Chirac, who died Thursday at the age of 86, a former leader of the United States had wanted to be present in Paris to pay a last tribute to the former president of the United States. the Republic. Thus, Bill Clinton took place on the benches of the Saint-Sulpice church alongside dozens of international leaders. "I loved him a lot," he told the microphone of Europe 1 after being received at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron after the ceremony.
"He wanted to reunite people rather than divide them"
"He was a formidable representative for the French," he said, before describing a president "always positive, always very protective of French interests". "He wanted to bring people together rather than divide them," he said again.
"We did not always agree politically, but I will miss him, I loved him a lot," concluded Bill Clinton, who, at the head of the world's leading power, had attended Jacques Chirac at the international summits. 1995 to 2001.