00:03Draft in a French flag and carried by 10 soldiers,
00:07Lionel Jospin's coffin was carried into the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris.
00:13French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the former Socialist Prime Minister who died last Sunday.
00:20The head of state praised his work at the helm of the government between 1997 and 2002.
00:27Lionel Jospin has, during these years, modernised the economic, social and democratic life of the nation in an inevitable way.
00:40He has contributed to make France enter into this open century.
00:46As Prime Minister, Jospin reduced the working week to 35 hours,
00:52extended free healthcare through universal health coverage,
00:55and introduced civil unions that gave unmarried couples, including same-sex partnerships, equal rights to those who married.
01:04Lionel Jospin will be buried at Montparnasse Cemetery.
01:10And I'll just bring one-on American family to many people.
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