France paid a national hommage Thursday to revered filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, whose nine-hour documentary "Shoah" is regarded as the best ever made about the Holocaust. The director and writer, who died last week aged 92, had to hide from the Nazis with his Jewish family in rural central France during World War II, then leaving them to join the Resistance at 17.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe led the mourners at the solemn ceremony at the Invalides, which houses Napoleon's tomb, with Lanzmann's coffin draped in the French tricolour flag carried into the courtyard by a military honour guard.
AFP