A Jewish hero’s elevation to the French Panthéon uncorks simmering divisions over who wears the mantle of resistance

A Jewish hero’s elevation to the French Panthéon uncorks simmering divisions over who wears the mantle of resistance

The symbolic internment in France’s Pantheon mausoleum of Marc Bloch, the Jewish French scholar and World War II resistance fighter executed by the Nazis, has been haunted by persistent divisions over who in France gets to commemorate the terrors of its Nazi occupation. Bloch’s descendants asked the government to ban far-right leaders — who have claimed him as their own model patriot — ahead of the ceremony Tuesday, which marked the country’s hi…