Emmanuel Macron announces the entry into the Pantheon of the historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch, shot by the Gestapo in 1944

Engaged in the resistance, Marc Bloch was arrested in Lyon on March 8, 1944, imprisoned and tortured in Montluc prison, then shot on June 16 with 29 of his comrades.

“For his work, his teaching and his courage”, Emmanuel Macron announced, Saturday November 23, the entry into the Pantheon of the historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch, arrested and shot by the Gestapo in 1944. The announcement came during the president's speech for commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Strasbourg.

Professor of medieval history at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1936, Marc Bloch profoundly renewed the field of historical research by extending it to sociology, geography, psychology and economics. In 1929, he notably founded with Lucien Febvre the review of Annals of economic and social historywhich had an academic resonance throughout the world.

Captain and Croix de Guerre in 1914-1918, mobilized again in 1939, Marc Bloch joined the resistance at the turn of the years 1942-1943. The author of The Strange Defeatwritten in 1940 and published after the war, was arrested in Lyon on March 8, 1944, imprisoned and tortured in Montluc prison, then shot on June 16 with 29 of his comrades.