Sarkozy pays tribute to dead of WWI
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-03-17 23:56
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (front), former president Jacques Chirac (L, rear) and Prime Minister Francois Fillon (2nd L) pay tribute to the dead of World War One in a state funeral for Lazare Ponticelli, aged 110, its last surviving WWI veteran, at a ceremony at the Invalides in Paris March 17, 2008. Ponticelli, an Italian immigrant who joined the Foreign Legion as a 16 year-old at the outbreak of the war with Germany in 1914, died last week. [Agencies] |
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