Shah at Marshal de Gaulle’s funeral

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The body lay in the living room of the Colombey house dressed in a brigadier general’s uniform with the French tri color draped across it. At the feet was the Cross of Lor raine, symbol of the wartime Fighting French, and in the general’s hands was a rosary given him by Pope Paul VI.Around him were his wife, their daughter Elizabeth, and her husband, Gen. Alain de Boissieu, and the de Gaulles’ son, Philippe, a navy captain, and his wife. There are seven grandchildren:

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