Emmanuel Macron celebrated Saturday at Mont-Valérien, in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), the 82nd anniversary of the June 18 Appeal, the first since the disappearance of the last Companion of the Liberation, Hubert Germain, who died on June 12. last October at the age of 101.
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In the presence of soldiers, veterans and members of the government, the Head of State attended under a blazing sun the commemorations of the appeal launched in 1940 by General de Gaulle and gathered in the crypt to the victims of Nazism.
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The ceremony was "
an opportunity to mark the durability of the values of the Order and to highlight their transmission to young people, as Hubert Germain had ardently wished
", according to the Élysée.
After the Marseillaise and a review of the troops, the text of General de Gaulle's appeal of June 18 was read before a rekindling of the flame by the mayor of the island of Sein.
For this ceremony, the Head of State was notably accompanied by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and the Minister for the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu.
Former Head of State Nicolas Sarkozy, Senate President Gérard Larcher and Paris Police Prefect Didier Lallement also attended.
