After Sunday's popular tribute, place Monday at the National Day of Mourning in honor of the former president.

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Sunday, and all night until Monday morning, they were thousands of French to go in the courtyard of the Invalides to pay a last tribute to Jacques Chirac. Monday from 11 am, it is a day of national mourning, with funeral convoy, mass and receptions of foreign heads of state, which is organized in memory of the former president, who died on Thursday.

The three infos to remember

  • A funeral procession leaves at 11 am from the Invalides to Saint-Sulpice Church, where a solemn service will be held
  • The former president will then be buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery
  • Many foreign heads of state are expected

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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. At noon, a solemn service chaired by Emmanuel Macron will be held, in the presence of former presidents François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

The audience will also include foreign heads of state and leaders: Russian President Vladimir Putin, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, German Presidents Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian Sergio Mattarella and Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso , the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, or the Lebanese Prime Ministers Saad Hariri and Hungarian Viktor Orban.

In the afternoon, according to the wishes of his wife Bernadette, Jacques Chirac will be buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in the cellar where their eldest daughter Laurence, who died in 2016, already rests.