Emmanuel Macron presided over his first 11 November ceremonies, 99 years after the Armistice, which ended the First World War. The commemorations included a visit to the Georges-Clemenceau Museum in Paris, reports RFI.
The head of state began the commemoration by visiting the Georges-Clemenceau Museum, in an apartment on Rue Benjamin-Franklin in the plush 16th district where "Father Victory" lived.
Along with Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the Georges-Clemenceau Museum Foundation, he visited the study and library of the man who became prime minister for the second time 100 years ago, in 1917.
Macron then laid a wreath at the foot of the statue of Georges Clemenceau, located at the bottom of the Champs-Elysees. Following this, he was escorted by the Republican Guard to the Arc de Trimomphe at the top of the Champs-Élysées where he reviewed troops from the French army and laid a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Former Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, President of the National Assembly, François de Rugy, and Senate, Gérard Larcher particiaped in the ceremony.
The Mayor of Bordeaux, Alain Juppé, as well as the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly was also there, as well as the new chief of staff of the armies, General François Lecointre.