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French tycoon Bernard Tapie's coffin is cheered on the pitch of the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, as supporters pay one last tribute to "the boss" before his burial on Friday. A huge sports fan, Tapie was the longtime chair of the Olympique de Marseille football club, guiding them to five successive league triumphs and the 1993 Champions League title. IMAGES
Braving the rain, French celebrities including Brigitte Macron and François Hollande join the general public to pay a last tribute to singer Juliette Gréco at her funeral in Paris. IMAGES
More than 1,500 chefs from around the world along with thousands of fans of French cuisine were expected in Lyon on Friday to honour their "pope" Paul Bocuse, who died last Saturday aged 91. IMAGES (completes VID1133963_EN)
A French military band broke from tradition at the Bastille Day parade on Friday, dropping martial music for a rendition of "Get Lucky" by French electro superstars Daft Punk. IMAGES
Former presidents and politicians of Chile, from left to right, as well as family members and supporters bid farewell to former president Sebastian Pinera, who died on February 6 while piloting his helicopter in the south of the country. A ceremony is being held in the Former National Congress building in downtown Santiago before the main funeral. IMAGES
US NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 70-71 main crew, bid farewell to their relatives and visitors gathered ahead of the launch from the Russian leased Baikonur facility, in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
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