Daniel Cordier, here in a television studio in 2013. (archives) -
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The national tribute ceremony to Daniel Cordier, former resistance member and secretary of Jean Moulin, who died Friday at the age of 100, will take place this Thursday at the Invalides and will be chaired by Emmanuel Macron, said the Elysee Palace on Tuesday.
This ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides, in the center of Paris, the usual place where national tributes are paid.
A speech will be made by the Head of State to salute the memory of Daniel Cordier, the penultimate Companion of the Liberation still alive.
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“With him, it is the living memory of the Resistance that is extinguished.
He had gone through what our history has most burning, most painful, but also more heroic, ”responded Emmanuel Macron to the announcement of his death.
Born August 10, 1920, Daniel Cordier was one of the very first French people, at the age of 19, to join the Free French Forces in London.
Parachuted to France in 1942, he was hired as secretary by Jean Moulin in Lyon and remained in the service of this figure of the Resistance until the latter's arrest in June 1943.
After the war, he became a famous contemporary art dealer and gallery owner.
Since the start of the quinquennium, national tribute ceremonies have been organized in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides for several personalities, such as Simone Veil, Jean d'Ormesson, Charles Aznavour and Jean Daniel as well as for gendarme Arnaud Beltrame or the 13 soldiers killed in Mali in 2019.
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