Bejart had been born in Marseille in France in 1927 but had lived in Lausanne in Switzerland since 1987 when he launched his Bejart Ballet Lausanne.
He had made the city of Lausanne his home and had been granted the honorific title 'honorary citizen' 10 years ago. He was formally accepted as a Swiss citizen earlier this year. He died Thursday.
He had been in and out of hospital for several weeks suffering from heart and kidney problems.
The Mayor of Lausanne, Daniel Brelaz had opened the ceremony saying: 'The Swiss lose a friend and an ambassador in the world.' Then the curtain rose to reveal the coffin.
Weyergans revealed that Bejart was working on his next project during his final days despite his illness, a ballet inspired by the German actress Marlene Dietrich. A film of her performing 'I get a kick out of you' was played to the gathering.
The ceremony was the final act for Bejart. His coffin had been on display since Sunday allowing several hundred members of the public to file past and write their messages in the books of condolence
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LONDON: In the James Bond novels and films, it fell to the technical expert Q to invent the gizmos and cunningly concealed weapons that helped the British spy cheat death and save the world.
Inventions ranging from a biometric keyboard to blast-proof curtains were on display this month by five companies in the final round of the Global Security Challenge, a competition to identify the world s most promising security start-up.
'I m sorry that Q wasn t at the judging table,' said Richard Dearlove, who from 1999-2004 was C - the real-life code name given to the head of British spy service MI6.
On a more serious note, Dearlove told participants in the competition about the complex new threats the world faces.
'We must also contend with the possibility that many new technologies have a dark side and may be used against us,' he said.
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