Whose body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe all night on May 22 1885?

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Victor Hugo died on May 22, 1885. His coffin was exposed under the Arc all night before his state funerals, which took place on June 1, 1885.

2,000 delegations and an estimated 2 million people lined the way from the Arc to the Panthéon where he is buried.

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