PICTURES – Funeral of Jean d’ormesson : Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, François Hollande is the present – Gala

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Jean d’ormesson died in the night of Monday 4 December Tuesday 5 December, at the age of 92 years. Academician, professor of philosophy and authors of books marking of French literature, Jean d’ormesson, received, Friday, December 8, a national homage in the presence of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, his wife Brigitte Macron, in the Cour d’honneur of the Invalides.

Two former presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and François Hollande, many ministers and personalities from the world of politics, Françoise Nyssen, Bruno Le Maire, Muriel Pénicaud, François Fillon, or Anne Hidalgo, have been invited to rwn a last tribute to Jean d’ormesson, a monument of culture and French literature.

Academician since 1973, published in The Pléiade edition in his lifetime, a rare privilege, Jean d’ormesson has marked his time by his writings and his wit making him a recurring guest of radio and tv sets. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron delivered a keynote address in which he welcomed the ” being of light, we will miss you “. Then he went to file a “single pencil” on the coffin of the writer, as envisioned by Jean d’ormesson.

Among the guests were also present artists and journalists such as Alice Taglioni and Laurent Delahousse, but also the violinist Renaud Capuçon, whose violin has accompanied the release of the mortal remains of the writer, surrounded by his wife, Francoise Beghin, his daughter, and his little girl.

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Jean d’ormesson,Emmanuel Macron

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