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Robert Badinter Enters the Pantheon as France Honors the Champion of Human Rights

This is Beirut, 09/10 22:05 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Robert Badinter Pantheon France

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave was vandalized. Badinter, a lawyer who campaigned for an end to capital punishment after one of his clients was beheaded with a guillotine in the ...

Before Marc Bloch, Four Figures Honored by Macron

This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Emmanuel Macron France Panthéon

Before the upcoming Panthéon induction of historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch, announced on Saturday by Emmanuel Macron, the president has previously enshrined four other great figures in this republican temple: Simone Veil, Maurice Genevoix, Joséphine Baker, and Missak Manouchian. Additionally, on February 14, 2024, during a tribute to ...

Marc Bloch Honored: Historian and Resistance Fighter Enters Panthéon

Béatrice Moreau, 2024-11-23 17:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

France Historian Resistance Panthéon

Marc Bloch, a prominent French historian of the 20th century, will soon join the Panthéon. This decision, announced by President Emmanuel Macron during the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Strasbourg, pays tribute to a visionary intellectual, a devoted patriot, and a courageous resistance fighter who died for France under Nazi gunfire. Born ...

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