French families visit loved-ones’ graves on All Saints’ Day

A woman holds flowers as she walks between graves at Saint Jean de Luz cemetery, southwestern France

French families took advantage on Sunday of an exception to national virus lockdown measures to gather at cemeteries to mark All Saints’ Day and honour lost loved ones.

France’s government has shut down all non-essential businesses and ordered people to stay indoors for the next month to slow accelerating virus infections, hospital admissions and deaths.