(FILES) This file photo taken on July 27, 2016 shows Chief of the Defence Staff French army General Pierre de Villiers arriving at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a meeting with French President for a defenbce council following yesterday attack at a church in Saint-Etienne-Du-Rouveray. French military chief Pierre de Villiers announced to AFP in a press release on July 19, 2017 he presented his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron "Who accepted it". / AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAY