France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was buried in family privacy

The coffin of former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in front of the Anthon church on December 5, 2020. AFP - DAMIEN MEYER

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The funeral of the former President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who died Wednesday at the age of 94 from Covid-19, took place this Saturday, December 5 in the strictest privacy in the small village of Authon in the Loir-et-Cher.

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In the cold and humidity of a Saturday morning in December, the funeral convoy, accompanied by two vehicles of the gendarmerie, arrived at 10:30 am on the small place of Authon, between the town hall and the village church.

In a silence barely disturbed by the church bell and the clicking of cameras, the coffin of

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

covered by two flags, one French, the other European, at the request of the former president, was carried into the church.

About forty people, family and close circle, then attended the ceremony.

A reduced gauge imposed by health measures but which corresponds to the " 

wish and will

 " for privacy of the former president, as his son Henri Giscard d'Estaing confided on Friday.

Always according to the wish of "VGE": the music was " 

part of the ceremony to accompany the flight of the soul

 ", it is specified in a document distributed Saturday on the spot to the press.

 At the end of the ceremony, which lasted two hours, the funeral procession led by the clergymen crossed the village square for a hundred meters to reach the private vault of the Giscard d'Estaing family.

A man then went out into his garden to greet the procession.

A dozen other people, kept away by security barriers, had made the trip to pay tribute to the former head of state.

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On the plot next to the town hall, the family was then able to pay a last tribute before the coffin was brought to the ground.

The former president was buried there next to his daughter Jacinte, who died in 2018.

The French will be able to come and meditate there from 9 a.m. on Sunday, said the mayor of Authon Marie-José Cintrat, the only elected official present at the ceremony.

(With

AFP

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