BODY OF PRESIDENT
BESIDE HIS SOLDIER SONS
FOTJE VICTIMS OF WAE
United Press Association—By Electric Tele-
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(Received 10th May, 1 p.m.)
PARIS, 9th May.
Yielding to the widow's entreaty that President Doumer should lie alogside his four sons, who fell in the war, the Government'has agreed that after the ceremony in the Pantheon the body shall be interred in the family vault at Baugirard.
The body is now lying in state at the Elysee, where there is a long procession of mourners despite rain and an icy wind.
"Leave my husband until to-mor-row," pleaded Madame Doumer. With her two daughters she watched^ over the body lying on. a brass bedstead, in a green salon. The wounds in the cheek are carefully hidden, and the dead President's face has regained its serenity. - .
The remains were then placed in a coffin and taken to the Grand Salle dcs Fetes, where they were placed on a catafalque with a background of tricolours. Her© the public was.admitted to pay its last respects.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1932, Page 7
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169BODY OF PRESIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1932, Page 7
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