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The Associated Press
PARIS: President Jacques Chirac expressed outrage Thursday at the desecration of a British war cemetery in France, saying the French had not forgotten the debt they owed British soldiers who died liberating their country.
In a letter to Queen Elizabeth П, Chirac described the scrawling of antiwar graffiti on monuments at the World War I cemetery in Etaples, near Calais, as inadmissible and shameful.”
Chirac's letter to the Queen
Madam,
I was appalled and deeply shocked to learn of the desecration of the British cemetery at Etaples in Pas-de-Calais.
This defacement is unacceptable and shameful, and has aroused the unanimous reprobation of the French.
On behalf of France and personally, I want to express to you my most sincere regrets. France knows what she owes to the tremendous devotion and courage of the British soldiers who came to help her to regain her freedom in the fight against barbarity.
M Chirac closed his letter with the formula appropriate for correspondence between heads of state. In French this reads:
Je vous prie de croire, madame, a l'assurance de mes tres respecteux hommages."
In English: Madam, please accept the sincerity of my very deep respect for you.
October, 2003
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