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France pays homage to beloved New Yorker cartoonist Sempé

Relatives and friends wait outside the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church before Jean-Jacques Sempe' funeral ceremony in Paris, Friday, Aug.19, 2022. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) The coffin of Jean-Jacques Sempe is carried inside the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church for his funeral ceremony in Paris, Friday, Aug.19, 2022. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) A woman holding a notebook with a drawing by Sempe arrives at Jean-Jacques Sempe's funeral ceremony at the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris, Friday, Aug.19, 2022. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) Jean-Michel Ribes, a French playwright, screenwriter and theatre director, arrives at Jean-Jacques Sempe's funeral ceremony at the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris, Friday, Aug.19, 2022. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) FILE - French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris on Oct. 19, 2011. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File) FILE - French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris on Oct. 19, 2011. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File) Workers adjust a big frontpage of a New Yorker issue before Jean-Jacques Sempe's funeral ceremony at the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris, Friday, Aug.19, 2022. Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose simple line drawings captured French life and won international acclaim on the covers of New Yorker magazine, has died on Aug.11, 2022. He was 89. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)