“The men and women of France and of other countries of the world may, if they wish, do my memory the honor of accompanying my body to its last resting place, but it is in silence that I wish it to be conducted.”Special trains and buses were to take the thousands of people expected Thursday in Colom bey, and the National Federa tion of Road Transport asked trucks to stay off the roads leading to the Haute‐Marne Department, where the village of a few hundred people is situated, about 120 miles east of Paris.