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Saint-Louis des Invalides cathedral is full and, just see the congregation that fills the aisles, it is clear that this is a time that the we bury this Friday, July 3, at the same time that Charles Pasqua, who died on June 29 The generation of the former interior minister, it remains only Serge Dassault and Roland Dumas, who was the nave leaning on his cane, while it is rumored his back “It’s Talleyrand which pays tribute to Fouche … “
It is one of the few former elected mitterrandistes to have made the trip. For the funeral of the man who was one of the bugbears of the left, the Socialist government has dispatched the bare minimum of its official quota: the Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, the Minister and marylise lebranchu State Secretary Jean-Marie Le Guen.
But the official banks, almost all of the right past thirty-five years, stands there. A dark assembly, largely male alone which traces the tumultuous history of neo- Gaullist movement. The brochette of former premiers Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppe Francois Fillon, was placed before the elected representatives of Hauts-de-Seine, the inevitable Balkany husband, Claude Gueant, André Santini, and employees of the campaign against the Treaty of Maastricht. Even former adversaries came as Michael Black, whose tall figure was hunched under head now bleached by years.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the very man who had made his first political weapons blowing Hall Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts de-Seine) nose Pasqua, preferred to collect only the funeral, rather than mingle with this assembly which seems close a chapter of history. Jacques Chirac, too weak, did not move, nor his daughter Claude, who nevertheless called Pasqua “Uncle Charles” before it elects, in 1995, Edouard Balladur. After years of estrangement, the former president of the Republic had come to be called in February to present her former partner, his condolences after the death of the only son of Charles Pasqua. But to his funeral, only the son of Chirac, Frederic Salat-Baroux was dispatched.
“He knew all the secrets of the Republic. The fact revealed no self-defense. Matter of honor, states Henri Guaino sobs in his voice.
The bishop the French armies, Monsignor Luc Ravel, he has understood, however, the character of the character we bury? For half an hour, now he speaks of Charles Pasqua as one would speak of a choirboy. Tracing of too soft voice a course he has erased all asperities. In the meeting, we fans gently, to escape the heat. Yet this is the political will regain power.
The prefect Pierre Monzani, a Pasqua baby headed the university center Leonardo, in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), Senate President Gerard Larcher and especially former special adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, now deputy, Henri Guaino prepared speeches. And here they are recovering at great lyrical features a legendary statue, of course, but that has nothing more than an angel.
“He knew all the secrets of the Republic. The fact revealed no to defend when attacked. Matter of honor, states Guaino sobs in his voice. was accused of “ diplomacy parallel ” and to be looking at some ways. He was, in fact, when it came to save life or to defend the honor of France. But no one has ever seen perform an act which France could be ashamed. “ Then he reminds ” the echo of the Homeric anger and immense laughter of Charles Pasqua and Philippe Seguin still echo in the minds of many of us. “
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Behind the wife and small-son of the deceased, secretaries and employees stifle a sob. A male voice choir then rises, singing in Corsican the Dio vi salve Regina: “Voi nemici dei nostri / A noi day Vittoria / E poi Eterna Gloria / In Paradiso” ( “On our enemies, give us victory and then Eternal glory to heaven …”).
This time, the ceremony resembles that which we celebrate. And the coffin can finally join the South from perfumes in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes), where the former minister now rests.
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