On July 7, local time, French President Emmanuel Macron shared a solemn photo on social media, explaining next to him that he went to Uistreón (one of the French ports) to attend a funeral there, and the last French soldier in the Normandy landing, Léon Gautier, died at the age of 100.
On June 6, 1944, 177 members of the Free French Navy's Kiefer Commando, along with part of the British Fourth Commando, crossed Normandy, a day that also went down in history as "Normandy Day".
Decades passed, and the surviving soldiers died one after another, and Monsieur Gautier became the last man, less than a month after celebrating the 79th anniversary of the Normandy landings, to die forever.
As the president of France, Macron brought his wife Brigitte Macron to the beach to attend the funeral, and French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bornet and other senior cabinet officials also attended, which shows how much France attaches importance to Mr. Gautier.
Macron looked solemn and closed his eyes in deep thought.
At the funeral site, the French flag was lowered to a half-height state to pay the highest tribute to Gautier.
For France, Mr. Gautier is a spokesman for memories and reflections on World War II, "It is necessary to tell the younger generation that they need to know," Gautier once said in an interview. War is pain ... There is pain everywhere. ”
Brigitte, who had not appeared in public for a while, accompanied her husband to the funeral, and wearing a black suit, she held his arms tightly to show their unity as a couple. Of course, for Brigitte, now 70, this can also relieve the pressure of her walking to some extent, and Macron's arm is a good "armrest".
A few days ago, more violent protests broke out in France over the shooting and killing of a 17-year-old Algerian teenager by police. Brigitte only appeared once during the period, but it had nothing to do with the conflict, but went to see Elton John's concert with her husband, and was photographed dancing to the music, for which the Macrons were criticized and condemned a lot.
Macron then threw herself into the work of calming the conflict, while Brigitte chose to "disappear", as if she was not suitable as first lady.
Despite being in her prime, Brigitte is still very energetic, walking on the beach with her husband's arm on her shoulder, and her hair is really young when she flies in the wind.
Brigitte's age reduction has a lot to do with her slim and slender figure, and she is as young as possible in dressing. This time, she chose a V-neck top, but she didn't wear a shirt inside, but let the vest inside seem to be presented indiscriminately, which is quite a "fashionable elf" feeling.
Although the couple has a 25-year age difference, it doesn't look so obvious and becomes more and more blurred. On the one hand, because Brigitte is a little "anti-growth" (good mood + focus on maintenance + micro-rectification... On the other hand, it is also because Macron has become more and more vicissitudes.
This is the image of Macron's inspection of the sixth stage of the Tour de France the day before. When interacting with the villagers of Kotre-Canbasque, Haute-Pyrenees, his frost-stained sideburns look very vicissitudes, much older than his actual 45-year-old.