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The ultimate tribute to Marielle de Sarnez

2021-01-18T19:47:25.614Z


Emmanuel Macron and many political figures were gathered this Monday at Saint-Sulpice church for the funeral of the former m


"She roamed the world in a wandering and militant way".

With his throat tied, François Bayrou pays a final tribute to Marielle de Sarnez as an extract from Cantata 147 by Jean-Sébastien Bach comes to an end.

Just before already, the lyrical songs of In paradisum, from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, resounded at length under the arcades of the Saint-Sulpice church, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, which hosted the funeral of Jacques Chirac in September 2019. In voice, the famous mezzo soprano Aurore Ugolin.

At the piano, Jean-Philippe Collard.

The boss of the Modem, an old traveling companion of the former minister and deputy, who died last Wednesday at the age of 69, overcomes his grief, despite the immense pain: "There are two kinds of people: those who progress and who are reaching the climax of their lives.

And those, rarer, which will never stop progressing and which one does not stop.

She was one of them, ”continues François Bayrou, his eyes cloudy in front of the coffin, and a crowd of personalities who came to say a last farewell to Marielle de Sarnez.

With cloudy eyes, François Bayrou, president of the MoDem and mayor of Pau, paid a final tribute to Marielle de Sarnez./LP/Olivier Corsan  

In the front rows, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Jean Castex, his predecessor Édouard Philippe, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the boss of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand.

They are all there, well beyond political labels.

Gathered during mourning, for this personality appreciated beyond the usual divisions.

The MoDem Minister Jacqueline Gourault is of course present, the centrist Anne-Marie Idrac, the former Socialist Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve also, the former deputy and PS Minister Jean-Marie Le Guen, the ecologist François de Rugy , or even Senator LR Philippe Dominati.

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris./LP/Olivier Corsan  

"It was very weird to see him there, alone"

“The Marielle archipelago,” had mischievously raised his daughter Justine at the start of the celebration.

The "tribes of Marielle", resumed a little later François Bayrou, recalling some elements of his personal life.

Like her totem pole when she was a scout, the maternal shrew, or even her passion for the islands.

Together, Sarnez and Bayrou have weathered many storms.

“It was very weird to see him there, alone.

We cannot imagine it without it.

And yet… ”says a participant in the mass, specifying that the mayor of Pau“ was personally very involved in the organization of the religious ceremony ”.

Edouard Philippe, former Prime Minister and Mayor of Le Havre./LP/Olivier Corsan  

Tuesday afternoon, at the opening of the questioning session to the government, it is the National Assembly which will pay tribute to him in turn, with a speech by the president of the MoDem group Patrick Mignola.

Chance of the calendar, the hemicycle will salute the memory of Claude Goasguen, the deputy for Paris who died last spring from the Covid.

“It's a nice wink.

The two were immensely friends, ”notes an elected official present yesterday at the funeral.

Source: leparis

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