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Last companion of the Liberation, Hubert Germain avlet the President of the Republic pass a last will. a tribute will be paid to him during the ceremonies of November 11.
It was one of the last wishes of the great fighter Hubert Germain. When he died, a small chain-shaped Cross of Lorraine was to be fashioned. He had asked that it be made in one of the charred wooden beams of Notre-Dame de Paris. “He told me that this Lorraine cross had to be made from a burnt piece of frame. He explained that he had, with his companions, raised France and that the French were now going to relieve Notre-Dame “, explains General Christian Baptiste, national delegate of the Order of the Liberation.
It is in the basements of the Invalides that the cross of Lorraine was born, trimmed by a cabinet maker. The task turned out to be very difficult. “The wood was very bruised and often it shattered when I passed it through the machine. My heart was beating hard and the trembling hand “, reports Stéphane Boudet, cabinetmaker at the Army Museum. This Lorraine cross, symbol of fighting France, will accompany Hubert Germain to his last home, Mont Valérien.