 Admiral Sébastien Lespès assumed command of the Far East Squadron, and presided at a memorial service for Courbet at Makung on 13 June.On 23 June "Bayard" left Makung, to a 19-gun salute from more than thirty French warships, to take Courbet's body back to France for a state funeral in Paris.After a two-month voyage back to France that included stops at Singapore, Mahé (in the Seychelles), Aden, Suez, Alexandria and Bône, "Bayard" reached the coast of Provence on 24August and joined the French Mediterranean fleet in the harbour of Les Salins d'Hyères.