French resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on Tuesday in a sombre ceremony, giving President Emmanuel Macron another chance to shape France’s national memory through one of the country’s most symbolic events.
Bloch – who was tortured by the Gestapo and executed in 1944 – is the first historian inducted into the monument under the Fifth Republic. The Elysée Palace described him as “a man of the Enlightenment” and “the thinker of the century”.
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