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French-Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian to enter Panthéon

Stencil portraits of resistance fighters Pierre Brossolette and Missak Manouchian made by the artist C215 in Fresnes prison. AFP - JOEL SAGET

Armenian genocide survivor and French Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will enter France’s Pantheon mausoleum of revered historical figures next year, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday.

"Manouchian carries a part of our greatness", Macron said in a statement, adding the French-Armenian poet and communist embodied France’s “universal values” of liberty, equality and fraternity.

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