PARIS (Azatutyun.am)—France paid a moving national homage on Friday to Charles Aznavour, the late French singer of Armenian descent, in a ceremony in Paris attended by President Emmanuel Macron and Armenia’s leaders.
Aznavour died at one of his homes in southeaster France on Monday at the age of 94. He will be buried on Saturday in a cemetery west of Paris.
Aznavour’s coffin was carried into the courtyard of Les Invalides military museum to the sound of haunting music played from a duduk, a traditional Armenian flute. An army band then played the national anthems of Armenia and France.
“Some heroes become French by spilling their blood. This son of Greek and Armenian immigrants, who never went to secondary school, knew instinctively that our most sacred sanctuary was the French language,” and used it like a poet, Macron said at the ceremony. “In France, poets never die,â€
