At the crossroads of the two World Wars.
France commemorated this Thursday the armistice of the Great War, signed in 1918, and paid homage at the same time to the last Companion of the Liberation, Hubert Germain.
The illustrious resistance fighter, who died at the age of 101 on October 12, was buried in Mont-Valérien (Hauts-de-Seine) this Thursday afternoon.
The Companions of the Liberation were "knights of liberty", "the timeless faces of France," Emmanuel Macron said earlier in the day, during his speech at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe, during which a notably assisted the American vice-president, Kamala Harris.
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"Would we be here without Hubert Germain?"
"Asked the Head of State, listing the names of several of the 1,038 Companions of the Liberation," illustrious and anonymous "who" followed General de Gaulle in this senseless adventure "in 1940. Hubert Germain's body henceforth rests for eternity in the crypt of the memorial of the combatant France, alongside 16 other valiant resistance fighters.
The Head of State spoke one last time on the coffin of the Companion of the Liberation
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Hubert Germain will now rest in the crypt of the French combatant memorial at Mont Valérien
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Hubert Germain's blue-white-red coffin goes up the Champs-Elysées
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Emmanuel Macron greets Kamala Harris at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe
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Hubert Germain's coffin in front of the flame of the Unknown Soldier, during Emmanuel Macron's speech
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Emmanuel Macron wears the “Bleuet de la France”, a tribute to war victims, veterans and their families
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