France celebrated this Thursday (11) the 1918 armistice that ended the First World War and paid tribute to Hubert Germain, who died a month ago and was the last of the thousand members of the Order of Liberation.
“Would we be here without Hubert Germain?” asked President Emmanue Macron, mentioning the names of some of the 1,038 Companions of Liberation, “illustrious and anonymous”, who “followed General de Gaulle on that senseless adventure” in 1940 when he disobeyed the French surrender to Nazi Germany and traveled to England to continue the fight.
“The last comrade is no longer with us (…) But those 1,038 who married France, however, are not going to disappear,” he continued in a speech under the Arc de Triomphe as part of the November 11 armistice commemoration ceremony 1918.
In mid-morning, lit by a splendid autumn sun, the coffin of Hubert Germain, who died on October 12, was transported in an armored vehicle, escorted by the Republican Guard, to the Arc de Triomphe where the soldier’s tomb is located. unknown.
In the early afternoon, the coffin, once again placed in the armor, will be taken to Mont-Valérien in Suresnes, west of Paris, the main place of execution of resistance fighters in World War II, where it will be buried in the crypt of the French memorial combatant.
US Vice President Kamala Harris, who attended the ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, said it was “important” to be there because her country and France “share a long history” in common, she said.
The day before, she visited the American military cemetery in Suresnes, where 1,565 of her compatriots are buried.
– “Source of inspiration” –
Macron, wearing a “Bleuet de France” (sign in memory of veterans) on the left lapel of his suit, said the Order of Liberation, created in November 1940, “will live” after the disappearance of the last of the Companions and will be “one eternal source of inspiration for the children of France, who will always be united”.
In June 1960, at the inauguration of the Mont-Valérien memorial in Suresnes, Charles de Gaulle expressed his wish that the crypt’s last pantheon be reserved for the last of the members of the Order of Liberation, which he had created to “reward the people or military and civil groups that have distinguished themselves in the work of liberating France and its empire”.
The presidential candidate for the far-right National Grouping party, Marine Le Pen, had hoped to be present in Mont-Valérien, but the Élysée Palace recalled that no parliamentarians or political leaders were invited to the ceremony, which is not open to the public. .
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