In the middle of the morning the coffin left, under a beautiful autumnal sun, the Invalides on an AMX-10 tank bearing the name of the battle of Bir Hakeim.
After stopping in front of the statue of General de Gaulle, as Hubert Germain had wished, he went up the Champs-Élysées, accompanied by the Republican Guard, to the Arc de Triomphe where he was deposited next to of the unknown soldier.
"Would we be here without Hubert Germain?"
"Asked Emmanuel Macron, listing the names of several of the 1038 Companions of the Liberation," illustrious and anonymous "who" followed General de Gaulle in this senseless adventure "by deciding to continue the fight against the Nazis in 1940 .
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"The last companion is no longer (...) But these 1038 who married France do not disappear for all that", he added in a speech delivered under the Arc de Triomphe during the commemoration ceremony of the armistice of November 11, 1918. Hubert Germain will be buried in the crypt of the Mont-Valérien Memorial in the afternoon.
