Perched up high on the hill of Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement, it has a panoramic view of Paris, encompassing the grey roofs of the city skyline as well as the Tour Montparnasse, Les Invalides and the Eiffel Tower, lined up perfectly from left to right along the horizon.

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Police put the turnout at 150, 000, while the organizers estimated that a million people had turned out to fill the Esplanade des Invalides, a central plaza.

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On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial.

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Then we did a crepe-fortified march southwest to the Jardin du Luxembourg before catching a last bus northwest to Les Invalides and, finally, the Eiffel Tower.

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Then, a government decision to inter him in Les Invalides in Paris, where French war heroes have been buried since the 17th century, was reversed because of public outrage.

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