Resistance Fighter and Historian Marc Bloch Enters Paris's Pantheon
- On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the Pantheon in Paris inducts historian Marc Bloch and his wife, Simonne Vidal, in a rare ceremony celebrating Bloch's intellectual legacy and his role in the French Resistance.
- A 53-year-old Jewish academic and Middle Ages specialist, Bloch joined the French Resistance in 1943 after Nazis occupied France; he was executed in 1944 while shouting, "Long live France!"
- Symbolic caskets containing Bloch's medals, photographs, and letters from Vidal will enter the Latin Quarter monument; granddaughter Suzette Bloch called it "a tremendous recognition" of his work and courage.
- Bloch's family requested that far-right politicians be excluded from the ceremony, citing the historian's "deeply anti-nationalist" views; Marine Le Pen of the National Rally will not attend.
- President Emmanuel Macron hailed Bloch as a "man of the Enlightenment in the army of the shadows," marking the first historian honored among the Pantheon's more than 80 national heroes.
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On Tuesday, the president honored the historian and resistance fighter, whose "lessons still bind us," while condemning "the spirit of defeat," a "slow poison in our public life that must be fought tirelessly." Source link: https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/pantheonisation-de-marc-bloch-le-texte-integral-du-discours-d-emmanuel-macron-20260623 Author: Publish date: 2026-06-23 21:56:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
France inters Jewish historian executed by the Gestapo in Panthéon
The nation of France honored historian Marc Bloch on Tuesday with interment in the Panthéon in Paris in a ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron.A French Jewish academic, who helped found the Annales school of historiography, Bloch is perhaps best remembered today for his wartime heroism as a member of the French Resistance whom the Nazis captured, tortured and executed in 1944.Caskets for Bloch and his wife containing the historian's …
During the ceremony of entering the Pantheon of the historian and resistor, the head of state alerted about the resurgence of the ideas of extreme right and castigated "the spirit of defeat".
Marc Bloch died in 1944 as the first historian to enter the Pantheon, admitted alongside illustrious resistors "for his work, his teaching and his courage," declared Emmanuel Macron.
The pantheonization of Marc Bloch devotes for the first time a historian among the "Great Men". Resisting shot in 1944, he embodies the union of republican memory and intellectual commitment.
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