From Veil to Belmondo, the long list of national tributes from Emmanuel Macron

The national tribute is decided by the President of the Republic with the agreement of the family of the deceased.This honor was previously mainly reserved for soldiers and a few civilians who had "a resistant past or a high grade in the Legion of Honor", like Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Father Pierre or Stéphane Hessel.

In 2015, President François Hollande innovated by deciding to organize a ceremony for the victims attacks on November 13 in the invalids.Since then, the vast court has seen the tributes succeed one another.That to Jean-Paul Belmondo will be the twelfth of Emmanuel Macron since the start of his mandate (2017).

- Simone Veil, July 5, 2017

Hooah survivor before being the muse of "all the fights of the last century for women, Europe, justice and human dignity", according to Emmanuel Macron, Simone Veil has long been the most loved personalityFrench.She died on June 30, 2017 at 89.Some 700 guests including dozens of French and foreign personalities had made the trip.The family who wanted the ceremony to be opened to the public, a crowd of anonymous people had also pressed in the galleries of the Honor Court, bathed by a summer sun.

- Jean d'Ormesson, December 8, 2017

"Isn't it itself a being of clarity?"He was not a place, not a discussion, not a circumstance that his presence has not alled.He seemed to give melancholy the taste for living and pessimists that of the future, "said the President of the Republic in his speech to the Invalides.In the audience of guests were in particular, in addition to the family and relatives of Jean d'Ormesson, several members of the French Academy, as well as the former presidents Holland and Sarkozy.The writer and academician died on December 5, 2017 at 92.

- Claude Lanzmann, July 12, 2018

A national tribute and open to the public was paid to the former resistance fighter Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah who devoted the major part of his life to testify to the extermination of the Jews of Europe.The ceremony was chaired by Edouard Philippe, Prime Minister, due to the absence of Emmnual Macron who attended a NATO summit in Brussels.He who was a writer, philosopher and journalist was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery, not far from Simone de Beauvoir, of whom he was the companion.Claude Lanzmann died on July 5, 2018 at 92.

- Charles Aznavour, October 5, 2018

"For so many decades, Charles Aznavour will have made our life softer.Her songs were comfort for millions of people, said Emmanuel Macron in his tribute.Over the years, this voice has settled in our lives and has gathered us.Charles Aznavour has unanimously became a face of France."The ceremony took place in the presence of those around him but also many artistic and political personalities, and the public.Charles Aznavour, last of the French song giants, died on October 1 at 94.

- Arnaud Beltrame, March 28, 2018

"Others, even among the brave, might have compared, hesitated," said Emmanuel Macron.Arnaud Beltrame, "stood up, right, lucid and brave".That day, France pays tribute to one of its heroes.Lieutenant-Colonel de gendarmerie Arnaud Beltrame died on March 23, 2018.The attack on a supermarket by a jihadist in Trèbes, in the Aude, killing two, had turned to the hostage.It was then that Arnaud Beltrame had exchanged her place with theirs.A sacrifice he paid for in his life.

- Thirteen French soldiers, December 2, 2019

"Thirteen of our most valiant soldiers, thirteen children in France (are) dead for France, for the protection of peoples of the Sahel, for the security of their compatriots and for the freedom of the world, for all of us," said the chiefof the state in its funeral praise, in the invalids.On November 25, 2019, thirteen soldiers died in Mali in a helicopter accident during a combat operation against jihadists.

Julien Carette, Romain Salles de Saint-Paul, Benjamin Gireud, Clément Frisonroche, Nicolas Mégard, Romain Chomel de Jarnieu, Alex Morisse, Pierre Bockel, Jérémy Leusie, Antoine Serre, Valentin Duval, Alexandre Protin and Andreï Jouk were aged 22 to 43years.

- Jean Daniel, February 28, 2020

Jean Daniel, founder of the Nouvel Observateur become L'Obs, died on February 19, 2020 at 99.He was considered a "great left consciousness" in this weekly."The most prestigious French journalist has died out.He was both a witness, an actor and a conscience of this world, "wrote the obs."What made Jean Daniel a monument, an example for a whole profession, was above all his daily practice of the profession, this unique way of crossing the profession of journalist, the love of letters and that of ideas,"indicated Emmanuel Macron during the tribute.

- Kévin Clément and Dmytro Martynyouk, May 7, 2020

Due to the COVVI-19 epidemic, the tribute to these two soldiers who fell in Mali had been broadcast by video.Kévin Clément, 21, was fatally injured by an enemy shot on May 4 during an operation to fight against the jihadist armed groups in Mali.Brigadier Dmytro Martynyouk had succumbed on May 1 to injuries inflicted on April 23 in Mali by the explosion of an improvised explosive device, still in Mali.The two legionaries belonged to the 1st foreign carpiagne cavalry regiment (Bouches-du-Rhône).

- Tojohasina razafintsalama, July 27, 2020

This French soldier of Malagasy origin, who belonged to the 1st regiment of parachutist hussars (RHP) of Tarbes, had been killed Thursday July 23, 2020 in Mali by a suicide vehicle.A national tribute was paid to him at the Invalides.

- Samuel Paty, October 21, 2020

Several hundred people bowed to the memory of Samuel Paty in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, to pay tribute to this teacher murdered in Conflans Saint-Honorine for having shown the caricatures of Muhammad in class."We have all had one of those teachers who changed the course of our existence.Samuel Paty was one, said Emmanuel Macron.Make Republicans is Samuel Paty's fight and if this task today may seem titanic, it is more essential, more current than ever here in France.»»

- Daniel Cordier, November 26, 2020

"With him, it is the living memory of the resistance that turns off. Il avait traversé ce que notre histoire a de plus brûlant, de plus douloureux, mais aussi de plus héroïque»», avait réagi Emmanuel Macron à l’annonce de son décès, le 20 novembre 2020, à 100 ans.Former secretary of Jean Moulin who became a merchant of art renowned after the war, the companion of the Liberation Daniel Cordier was one of the very first French people to have joined the French forces in June 1940.

- Tanerii Mauri, Quentin Pauchet and Dorian Issakhanian, January 4, 2021

Several hundred anonymous, but also firefighters, soldiers and veterans had massaged on the Alexandre-III bridge to see the funeral procession of three cars pass by.Brigadier-Chef Tanerii Mauri, 1st class hunter Quentin Pauchet and 1st class hunter Dorian Issakhanian had been killed by a craft mine on December 28, 2020.They were in his twenties.

– Gisèle Halimi, « début 2022»»

Un hommage national est prévu « début 2022»» pour saluer la mémoire de l’avocate féministe, décédée le 28 juillet 2020 à 93 ans.