« The Republic made man » at the Pantheon on October 9 – Liberation

The former resistance fighter and Keeper of the Seals Robert Badinter will enter the Pantheon during a tribute ceremony on October 9, the anniversary of the promulgation of the Death penalty abolition law of which he is the author, we learned this Tuesday, April 8, from the entourage of Emmanuel Macron. The historian and resistant Marc Bloch For his part, his entry to the Pantheon on June 16, 2026, 82 years after its execution by the Gestapo in 1944, added the same sources, confirming information from the information Figaro.

The President of the Republic had announced the entrance to the pantheon of the former socialist seals during a national tribute paid after his death on February 9, 2024. His name « Will have to register alongside those who have done so much for human progress and for France »he said. Robert Badinter was « The Republic made man »,, « A force that lives and tears life in the hands of death »had added the head of state. Born into a Jewish family emigrated from Bessarabia (the current Moldova), Robert Badinter had witnessed his father’s arrest in Lyon during the Second World War, who died in deportation to Poland. His great fight was that against the death penalty, abolished in France by the law of October 9, 1981.

In November, Emmanuel Macron had announced that Marc Bloch would also join the great characters in the history of France, by praising his « courage » and its « lucidity ». In a letter to the President of the Republic, the historian’s family had asked him that « The extreme right, in all its forms, is excluded from any participation in the ceremony » from the start to the Pantheon. Coming from an Alsatian Jewish family, professor of history of the Middle Ages at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1936, the author of « The Strange Defeat », written in 1940 and published after the War, was arrested in Lyon on March 8, 1944, imprisoned and tortured at Montluc prison, then shot on June 16 with 29 of his comrades.

According to Le Figarofamilies wanted there to be no « transfer » of the two deceased. But a cenotaph – funeral monument – will be erected in tribute to each of these « Great men »to which « Fatherland » will say « Grateful »according to the famous formula inscribed on the pediment of the Pantheon. Emmanuel Macron, who continues a long memorial cycle around the end of the Second World War, has already welcomed four other great personalities in this republican temple: Simone Veil, Maurice Genevoix, Joséphine Baker and Missak Manouchian. Under the Fifth Republic, the Head of State is the sole decision -maker in matters of pantheonization.

Update : At 9:13 p.m., addition of context elements.