sentences:  Throughout his stay in his Parisian exile, he kept on calling for the implementation of the international legitimacy and its Lebanon-related resolutions.He died in Paris on May 10, 2000 and his body was transported to Beirut where a national funeral ceremony was held for him.Maronite Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Butros Sfeir presided over the mass following protocols confining this practice to the Presidents of the Republic.