In the Course of His 104 Years, He Resisted the Nazis, Fought Against Blood Libel and Became a Towering Jewish Intellectual
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Find our editorial of Thursday, June 4, 2026. This "song of the partisans" that resonates yesterday morning between the walls of the Invalides is worth all the tributes addressed to this 104-year-old philosopher who has come from
In the course of his 104 years, he resisted the Nazis, fought against blood libel and became a towering Jewish intellectual
Today, in a public ceremony held at Les Invalides, President Emmanuel Morin led the French Fifth Republic in paying its last respects to one of the nation’s great public figures, Edgar Morin, whose 104 years spanned the Third and Fourth Republics as well. He was a sociologist, philosopher, writer, film director and screenwriter. But Morin’s real profession was as an intellectual. There is a vast literature on the character and career of the Fren…
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at Les Invalides, French President Emmanuel Macron greeted, in a national tribute to the philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, who died at 104 years of age, "an exceptional destiny in the century" that never gave way to "the truth of a single camp".
On Wednesday, June 3, French President Emmanuel Macron presided over a national tribute to the sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, who died on Friday May 29 at the age of 104. He described a "thinker of his time" whose thought is "intemporal".
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