Emmanuel Emmanuel Macron leads ceremony for French victims of Hamas attacks
He was addressing a ceremony for French victims of the attacks in the courtyard of the Invalides military complex in Paris.
A total of 42 French and dual French-Israeli nationals were killed on 7 October, and six were injured.
Three are still missing, presumed to have been taken hostage by Hamas.
Four French hostages were freed during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November.
The 7 October attack was the largest slaughter of French nationals since the July 2016 Bastille Day attack in the southern city of Nice, in which 86 people were killed when a truck drove into crowds celebrating Bastille Day.
The sombre ceremony - the first of its kind to be held outside of Israel - took place in pouring rain.
A French government representative said earlier this week that it was obvious that "the same emotion and the same dignity are owed to the French victims of the bombing of Gaza, who will be honoured on another occasion".
Dozens of members of the Jewish community stood outside Les Invalides, following events on a giant screen and holding signs that read "The world can never look away again".
Ahead of President Macron's speech, photographs of the 42 victims were brought out as their relatives looked on.
Three chairs were left empty, to mark the three hostages believed still in captivity in Gaza. A violinist and a pianist gave a rendition of Maurice Ravel's interpretation of Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.
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