After the popular tribute to the Invalides Sunday, place at the national day of mourning on Monday. Many personalities are expected in Paris to pay a new tribute to Jacques Chirac, who died last Thursday.
At 11 o'clock, the coffin will leave the Invalides in a funeral convoy. The remains of the former president will be framed by a large escort, to the church Saint-Sulpice, where will be rendered a solemn service. It will be chaired by Emmanuel Macron and returned at noon in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, in the presence of former presidents Francois Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
From Vladimir Putin to Gerhard Schröder
And assistance will match the flow of messages from around the world since Thursday noon: among the thirty heads of state, will be present Russian President Vladimir Putin, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, German Presidents Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian Sergio Mattarella and Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, and Lebanese Prime Ministers Saad Hariri and Hungarian Viktor Orban.
Among former leaders of Jacques Chirac's time will also come former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and former Senegalese President Abdou Diouf.
The French political class should also be widely represented, with the exception of the president of RN Marine Le Pen, she whose father had made Jacques Chirac an "enemy". The family was opposed to his arrival and the finalist of the last presidential election, who announced his presence at first, finally decided not to come. "The Chirac family does not wish to respect the republican customs and having expressed its disagreement with our presence, we will not go there , " she told franceinfo on Sunday.
A funeral convoy for a popular tribute
The French will also pay a last tribute Monday to Jacques Chirac on the path of the funeral convoy to the church Saint-Sulpice. A special tribute will then be paid to the former president on the weekend of October 5 and 6 in Corrèze, his land of choice.
The former head of state, sick for many years, died "very peacefully, without suffering". According to the wish of his wife Bernadette, he will be buried Monday afternoon at the Montparnasse cemetery in the vault where their eldest daughter Laurence, who died in 2016, already rests. Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron will receive at the Élysée all the chefs de State who will have made the trip to pay a last tribute to the former president.
A minute of silence in schools and administrations
In administrations and schools, a minute of silence will be observed at 3 pm In schools, teachers are also invited to give a lecture on Jacques Chirac, his history, and his role as president.