World leaders, past and present, stood in silence in Paris on Monday at a funera...
PARIS - World leaders, past and present, stood in silence in Paris on Monday at a funeral service for Jacques Chirac, the French leader remembered at home for his folksy charisma and abroad for opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Chirac, who served as president from 1995 to 2007, was feted by many French people for asserting their country’s role as a global player, a stance that put him at odds with Washington over the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He said Chirac embodied a love for his fellow man that is missing from today’s society. “Goodbye, and thank you Monsieur Chirac,” Aupetit added.Chirac’s widow Bernadette was absent from the funeral mass because of frail health, the archbishop said. Earlier, 86-year-old Bernadette and other members of Chirac’s family attended a private service in the Hotel Des Invalides, the public building where Chirac’s body had lain in state over the weekend.
President Macron will host the visiting leaders at a lunch at the Elysee Palace, though Putin was expected to fly out before the lunch, the Elysee said. The Saint-Sulpice church was chosen for Chirac’s service because Notre Dame was partially destroyed in a fire in April this year.
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