Emmanuel Macron expected at the Arc de Triomphe

80th anniversary of the 1945 victory obliged, the May 8 will be commemorated differently than in other years. Exit the morning ceremony in Paris: Emmanuel Macron will participate in several times of memory at the end of the day.

A passage in front of the statue of General de Gaulle is scheduled for 5:20 p.m., before a military ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe.

“The President of the Republic will deliver a speech, will give the Legion of Honor to a resistant and then attend a parade of reconstitutors and schoolchildren,” said the Élysée.