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His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside Paris, but officers carried a symbolic casket draped in a French flag into the former church on the capital's left bank under a cascade of applause.

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At one point, a man blew a shofar, the traditional musical horn used in Jewish rituals, to the crowd’s applause.

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“Let’s buckle down together, let’s remove barriers for each other and let’s go get it, all right?” he said to applause.

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The applause was more than appreciation for a movie.

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As expected, some of Swift’s more questionable lyrics — many of which were exponentially funnier as clean versions — garnered some chuckles, and “Actually Romantic,” an alleged Charli XCX diss track, notably concluded without applause.

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