昨晚，無意間看 French 24台，主題是：France bids emotional farewell to Chirac on national day of mourning
很難想像他是哈佛校友。
除了親農；親民、愛交際，評論者也談他比較鮮為人知的東方--日中--古典休養、博物館museums的促成.......；教堂外的民眾的鼓掌告別.....
2019.9.30
French 24
Live: France bids emotional farewell to Chirac on national day of mourning
Dozens of world leaders joined mourners in Paris Monday to pay their final respects to France’s former president Jacques Chirac as the country holds a national day of mourning for its charismatic former head of state.
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- Former French president Jacques Chirac died on Thursday, September 26, aged 86.
- Chirac will be buried with full military honours at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.
- The funeral mass is being held at Saint-Sulpice church in the French capital.
- World leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, attended the services.
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Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed the European Union, but whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged 86.
"President Jacques Chirac died this morning surrounded by his family, peacefully," his son-in-law told AFP.
Chirac served two terms as president and twice as PM, and took France into the single European currency.
French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Chirac as a "great Frenchman".
The French National Assembly observed a minute's silence in his memory.
A towering figure in French politics for five decades, Chirac will be remembered for his opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, his pragmatic statesmanship and his advocacy of the European Union.
In a televised address from the Elysee Palace, Mr Macron mourned his death, calling him a president who "embodied a certain idea of France".
"We French have lost a statesman whom we loved as much as he loved us," Mr Macron said. "Whether we share, or not, his ideas or what he fought for, we all recognise ourselves in this man who resembled us, and brought us together."
Mr Macron's office said a national day of mourning will take place on Monday, when a mass at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris will be held.
On Thursday night, the illuminations at the Eiffel Tower will be switched off two hours earlier than usual in honour of Chirac, a former Paris mayor.
Who has paid tribute?
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission and former Luxembourg prime minister, said he was "moved and devastated" to learn the news.
"Europe is not only losing a great statesman, but the president is losing a great friend," he said in a statement.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "very sad" to hear about the death of Chirac, who she described as an "outstanding partner and friend".
Former French President François Hollande also paid homage to Chirac: "I know that today, the French people, whatever their convictions, have just lost a friend," he said in a statement.
Another former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, said on learning the news: "A part of my life has disappeared today", adding that Chirac "embodied a France faithful to its universal values".
A known admirer of Chirac, Russian President Vladimir Putin, praised the "wise and far-sighted statesman" for his "intellect and huge knowledge".
British prime ministers past and present were among those to pay their respect, with John Major and Boris Johnson both hailing his political prowess.
French television stations are playing wall-to-wall tributes, and it is moving to be taken back once again to that long epoch in French history when Jacques Chirac was at the centre of it all.
There he is as a chisel-chinned prime minister in the 1970s; later in a flared three-piece suit, announcing the creation of his Gaullist party; then as president upbraiding Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem; or glad-handing at the annual farm show in Paris.
The years have passed and no-one particularly wants to dwell on the many failings of the man. No mention in the tributes of the corruption and the flip-flops.
What remains for most is the memory of a likeable man, a man of culture (at least that was the image he cultivated), and a president who acted like a French president is supposed to - that is, projecting the permanent conviction that France, of course, is the best place in the world.
What is his legacy?
Chirac won domestic and international plaudits for his fierce opposition to French involvement in the Iraq War, presciently warning it would prove a "nightmare". "War is always a last resort. It is always proof of failure," Chirac said, in comments days before the war started.
In 1995, Chirac became the first French leader to recognise the country's role in the deportation of Jews to death camps during World War Two.
After winning the 1995 presidential election on a platform of healing the "social rift", his promised economic reforms were considered piecemeal.
Among his major domestic political reforms was a reduction of the presidential term of office from seven to five years, and the abolition of compulsory military service.
REUTERS
Described by some as a political chameleon, by others as the "bulldozer", Chirac was seen as a leader who could bridge the gap between left and right.
As president, he pressed for a more federal Europe within the European Union.
In the 2000s, Chirac championed the European project and an EU constitution, which was later rejected in a poll by the majority of French voters.
Who is Jacques Chirac?
Born in 1932, Chirac was the son of a bank manager. A graduate of Harvard University, he began his career as a high-level civil servant before entering politics.
He served as head of state from 1995 to 2007 - making him France's second longest serving post-war president after his immediate Socialist predecessor Francois Mitterrand.
REUTERS
Chirac's health steadily deteriorated after he stepped down until his death on Thursday.
In 2005, he suffered a stroke, and in 2014 his wife Bernadette said he would no longer speak in public, noting he had memory trouble.
Chirac also served as French prime minister twice, from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988.
What were the corruption scandals?
Chirac was beset by a series of corruption scandals dating back to his tenure as the mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995. He and his entourage were accused of using city funds to pay for his political party, the RPR.
A ruling by the country's constitutional council in 1999 gave the president blanket immunity from prosecution while in office. But in 2011 he was convicted of diverting public funds while serving as mayor, a ruling Chirac rejected.
He was found guilty and given a suspended sentence of two years, but remained popular despite his conviction.
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上週四去世的前總統雅克·希拉克追悼典禮今天（9月30號）在巴黎的聖敘爾比斯教堂舉行，除法國現任總統及3位前總統外，預計超過80位國家領袖或政府代表出席。法國總統馬克龍將親自主持致哀儀式。今天也是法國國喪日。
週日，在巴黎榮軍院，數以千計法國民眾不畏風雨交加的惡劣天氣，在街頭大排長龍，向希拉克作最後告別，環繞巴黎傷兵院建築群的隊伍綿延近一公里。為了滿足所有希望與希拉克告別的民眾的心願，榮軍院破例整夜開放。
今天早上，在榮軍院舉行莊嚴的軍禮後，蓋著藍白紅三色國旗的棺木於中午十分抵達了聖敘爾比斯教堂。全體一分鐘默哀後，開始隆重莊嚴的彌撒儀式。
出席儀式的外國國家元首或政府代表超過80人，包括俄羅斯，德國，意大利，黎巴嫩，剛果等國總統和歐盟執行委員會主席榮克，美國前總統克林頓等人軍出席。
除了法國極右派領袖因希拉克家庭不歡迎外，法國政界和各黨派領導人也將暫時收起政治歧見，齊聚聖敘爾比斯教堂與希拉克做最後告別。
這場莊嚴的悼念活動不容任何安全事故或乾擾發生，總統府愛麗舍宮及巴黎警署都致力於做到滴水不漏的維安。法國費加洛報引述不具名消息來源表示，雖然法國一直處在恐怖攻擊的日常威脅下，目前情報單位並未發現任何特殊風險，但不排除有人在葬儀車隊經過時做出異常舉動。
根據報導，教堂周邊路段將有嚴格管制，除了路障外，每隔3到4米就會有一名安全人員。只有持邀請函者才能進入聖敘爾比斯教堂內，但教堂前的廣場將架起兩幅巨型屏幕，為民眾轉播教堂內的儀式畫面，
莊嚴肅穆的宗教儀式過後，席拉克的遺體將送往巴黎的蒙帕納斯墓園火花後下葬，與他3年前過世的女兒勞倫斯相伴，屆時墓園可能暫停向公眾開放。
席拉克9月26日在巴黎逝世，享壽86歲。他受人矚目的政治生涯縱橫了30年，並於1995年至2007年出任法國總統。儘管也有政治污點，政績褒貶不一，但最新一項法國民意調查顯示，超過三成的受訪者認為希拉克曾經是一位好總統。
在國際舞台上，希拉克因其對非洲援助、不參與美國對伊拉克戰爭、拉近與德國關係等政策上受到好評。
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Dan Garrett, PhD, is an author, photographer, political scientist, and visual sociologist studying China's securitization of Hong Kong. His first book examined the Region's vivacious protest culture and defence of the Hongkonger identity.
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