Emmanuel Macron will chair the national tribute ceremony Thursday afternoon to Daniel Cordier, former resistance member and secretary of Jean Moulin, who died on Friday at the age of 100.
This ceremony will begin at 3.30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides in the presence of around thirty guests.
The ceremony will be settled down to the minute.
From 3:30 p.m., France will pay tribute to Daniel Cordier, 100 years old, who died on Friday, November 20.
Emmanuel Macron will celebrate the memory of the penultimate Companion of the Liberation, former secretary of Jean Moulin who became a renowned gallery owner after the war.
Health crisis requires, the Court of Honor of the Invalides, will welcome only about thirty guests.
Daniel Cordier will rest at Père Lachaise
Under the statue of Napoleon, on the steps, Hubert Germain will occupy a prominent place.
At 100 years old, he is now the last Companion of the Liberation alive.
After a mass in the presence of the family, six students from the Saint-Cyr school will place Daniel Cordier's coffin on the pavement, thus embodying man's humility in the face of death.
Another symbol: the flag of the 44th Infantry Regiment will be hoisted, that of the secret services to which Jean Moulin's former secretary belonged.
Emmanuel Macron will then take the floor.
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The coffin will leave Les Invalides on the very solemn march of the drums towards the Père-Lachaise cemetery, where Daniel Cordier has chosen to rest.
He who found the crypt of Mont-Valérien too "cold" will not have to freeze there: it is planned that the military fortress shelters the tomb of the last Companion to disappear.