Emmanuel Macron chaired the commemoration ceremony for the 104th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice this Friday in Paris, before a lunch at the Elysée with standard bearers, commissioners of the Flame of the Unknown Soldier and presidents of veterans' associations. fighters.
The Head of State laid a wreath and gathered in front of the statue of Georges Clemenceau on the Champs-Élysées, a few meters from the presidential palace.
He then reviewed the troops in Place Charles-de-Gaulle then rekindled the flame of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, before calling the names of the soldiers who died for France since November 11, 2021. The head of the he State was welcomed at the Etoile by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, Minister for the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, Secretaries of State Sarah El Haïry (Youth and Universal National Service) and Patricia Mirallès (Veterans and Memory), and the Chief of Defense Staff Thierry Burkhard.
The ceremony was attended by former President Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, whom the French President greeted accompanied by his Argentinian counterpart. Alberto Fernández.
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