Funeral of Bernadette Chirac: Line Renaud, Muriel Robin and Brigitte Macron came to support Claude Chirac for the farewell to his mother

No less than seven years after the death of Jacques Chirac, the former First Lady died on June 5 at the age of 93. Sad news announced by his daughter Claude Chirac. She “passed away in the evening, peacefully, surrounded by her family“, she confided in a press release to AFP. Inconsolable since the death in 2016 of her eldest daughter, Laurence, and the disappearance of her husband and former President of the Republic, in 2019, the one who was president of the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France and launched Operation Yellow Pieces no longer appeared in public and only traveled in a wheelchair.

This Friday, June 12, his loved ones pay him a final tribute during his funeral in the Sainte-Clotilde basilica, in Paris. A symbolic place for the late politician because it was in this church that she married her husband and former head of state Jacques Chirac on March 16, 1956, but she also organized the funeral of her daughter Laurence there..

The funeral of Bernadette Chirac marked by the presence of many politicians

Besides Claude Chirac and his son Martin Rey-Chirac, many political figures made the trip to pay tribute to the memory of Bernadette Chirac such as former minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Philippe Douste-Blazy, Edouard Philippe, Christian Estrosi and his wife Laura Tenoudji, Thierry Breton, François Baroin, Roselyne Bachelot, Jacques Toubon, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and even Valerie Pécresse, Brigitte Macron, François Hollande and his wife Julie Gayet and Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni. The latter’s mother, Marisa Borini, also came to pay tribute to the memory of the former First Lady.

Muriel Robin and her wife Anne Le Nen also visited the Sainte-Clotilde basilica. The actress and comedian is close to Claude Chirac. Line Renaud was also seen arriving by car alongside the deceased’s daughter.

These other tributes to Bernadette Chirac planned in Corrèze

Après des obsèques à Paris, a tribute will also be organized this Sunday, June 14, in Corrèze. A department dear to the deceased who was notably its general advisor. If a religious ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. in Tulle, a“friendly moment of remembrance” will also be offered at 2 p.m. at the Sédières estate. An open meeting “all the Corrèziens so dear to his heart”announced Claude Chirac, as reported Le Figaro. Bernadette Chirac will be buried in the family vault at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.