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Updated: 2008-12-03 17:15

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) stands with former president Jacques Chirac at a ceremony to pay tribute to the dead of World War One in a state funeral for Lazare Ponticelli, aged 110, France's last surviving WWI veteran, at the Invalides in Paris on March 17, 2008. Ponticelli, an Italian immigrant who joined the Foreign Legion as a 16 year-old at the outbreak of the war with Germany in 1914, died last week. [Agencies]