A funeral ceremony is held in Paris for Guadeloupean writer Maryse Conde, who chronicled slavery, colonialism and African dictatorships in dozens of novels, plays and essays, following her death at the age of 90. "I wouldn't want to talk about Maryse's past, that's precisely the charm of writers, it's when they die that the legacy of their work begins", said writer Dany Laferrière, who attended the religious ceremony in Paris' church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES