Coffin Of Late French President Jacques Chirac

Former French President Jacques Chirac gets full military honours

Former French President
Jacques Chirac was given full
military honours today as
current and past world
leaders gathered in Paris to
attend his final service

President Emmanuel Macron
cut a solemn figure as he
presided over the ceremony
near the site of Napoleon’s
tomb in the courtyard of Les
Invalides. A military band
played the national anthem,
“La Marseillaise, before
Macron inspected the troops.

Jacques Chirac’s casket,
covered with a Tricolor flag,
was then carried to the centre
of the courtyard.

Emmanuel Macron, who did
not speak, will also attend a
memorial service at the
Church of Saint-Sulpice in
downtown Paris alongside
dozens of French politicians
and foreign officials.

They include Russian
President Vladimir Putin,
former US President Bill
Clinton, former German
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder
and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
A private funeral will take
place later at the
Montparnasse cemetery.