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Marc Bloch soon at the Pantheon, his family imposes a condition on Macron for the ceremony (Illustration: Emmanuel Macron, here at COP28)
PANTHEON – The historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will enter the Pantheon, announced this Saturday, November 23, Emmanuel Macron praising his « courage » and its “lucidity” during a speech in Strasbourg on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Alsatian capital. His family, very moved and completely satisfied with this entry into the Pantheon”still placed a condition on the president for the ceremony: that the extreme right be absent.
In a letter to the President of the Republic, of which AFP obtained a copy, the family requests that “the extreme right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony” entrance to the Pantheon.
“The work of this convinced patriot is profoundly anti-nationalist, constructed against the national novel and the reduction of French history to national borders”write his granddaughter Suzette Bloch and his great-grandson Matis Bloch, on behalf of the beneficiaries.
Already, during the pantheonization of Missak Manouchian last February, Marine Le Pen had made an appearance, against the advice of her descendants and the president, provoking a controversy.
Faire « shine his work »
The family also wishes that the tribute be “ purely civil »as Marc Bloch requested in his will, underlines The World. Coming from an Alsatian Jewish family, 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.
“We hope that this tribute which will be paid to him will make it possible to make his work known better and more widely”reacted to AFP Hélène Seguret, 50 years old, great-granddaughter of Marc Bloch, after attending the president's speech. Recalling that Marc Bloch was a professor, father of six children and “very attached to youth”she wanted the latter to be “very involved” in this tribute.
Emmanuel Macron praised his “scathing lucidity which still strikes us today”son “audacity of words and ideas which was coupled with physical courage” and its “French will until its last breath, until assassination by the Gestapo”. Emmanuel Macron also presented the Legion of Honor to his son Daniel Bloch.
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