The former resistance fighter and judge minister Robert Badinter will enter the pantheon during a tribute ceremony on October 9, the anniversary of the promulgation of the law of abolition of the death penalty of which he is the author, he learned of BFMTV.com this Wednesday, April 9 with the Elysée, confirming information from Figaro.
The Jewish and resistant historian Marc Bloch in turn will be trampled on June 16, 2026, 82 years after his execution by the Gestapo in 1944, the AFP specifies.
The President of the Republic had announced the entrance to the pantheon of the former socialist guardian of the seals during a national tribute after his death on February 9, 2024. His name “will have to register with those who have done so much for human progress and by France,” he said.
A desolate fight against the death penalty
Robert Badinter was “The Republic Made Man”, “A force that lives and tear life in the hands of death,” the head of state added.
Born in a Jewish family, he emigrated from Besarabia (the current Moldova), Robert Badinter had witnessed his father’s arrest in Lyon during World War II, 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, praising his “courage” and his “lucidity.”
His family wants to exclude the extreme right of the ceremony
In a letter to the President of the Republic, the historian’s family had asked him that “the extreme right, in all its forms, excluded from any participation in the” entrance to the pantheon ceremony.
Come from a Jewish family Alsaciana, professor of history of the Middle Ages at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1936, the author of “The Strange Defeot”, written in 1940 and published after the war, was arrested in Lyon on March 8, 1944, imprisoned and tortured in the prison of Montluc, then shot on June 16 with 29 of its vigels.
According to Le Figaro, families wanted there to be no “transfer” of the two deceased. But a cenotafio, the funeral monument, will be erected in tribute to each of these “great men”, whom “the homeland” will say “grateful”, according to the famous formula inscribed in the pediment of the pantheon.
Emmanuel Macron, who continues a long commemorative cycle around the end of World War II, has already welcomed four great personalities in this Republican Temple: Simone Veil, Maurice Ginebrox, Joséphine Baker and Missak Manuchian.
Under the fifth Republic, the Head of State is the only one who creates the decision in panthelical matters.
Source: BFM TV
