“The entry into the Pantheon of a historian like Marc Bloch speaks of the future” – Libération

The professor at the Collège de France is delighted with the pantheonization of the historian and resistance fighter, announced on Saturday November 23 by Emmanuel Macron. And supports the family's decision to exclude the far right from the ceremony.

“For his work, his teaching and his courage, we decide that Marc Bloch will enter the Pantheon», declared Emmanuel Macron, Saturday November 23, during a commemorative trip to Strasbourg. After the pantheonization of the Armenian communist Missak Manouchian, the nation will therefore pay tribute to the historian and resistance fighter, shot by the German occupiers in 1944 after having been tortured. The author of the Strange Defeatan essential account of the French debacle of 1940, has profoundly renewed the historical field by opening it to the social sciences. Professor at the Collège de France Patrick Boucheron, a medievalist like Marc Bloch, is delighted with this decision. It recalls the unifying conception of knowledge defended by the co-founder of the journal Annals of economic and social historyand his ideal of truth which should inspire us today.

Emmanuel Macron announced, Saturday November 23, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Strasbourg, the pantheonization of the historian Marc Boch, what do you think?