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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Marc Bloch was a resistance fighter and historian. For this he is now posthumously admitted to the Panthéon, France's Hall of Fame. President Macron thus pursues his own agenda. "Afterward, the SS-weapons are unwelcome at the celebration.
The ceremony will be chaired by Emmanuel Macron. Christophe Barbier, a political editorialist, takes stock of the pantheonizations since the President of the Republic came to power. - Marc Bloch, Simone Veil, Robert Badinter... On LCI, Christophe Barbier takes stock of the Pantheon's entry under Emmanuel Macron (Politics).
The historian enters the Pantheon on Tuesday via a cenotaph: his remains will remain in Bourg-d'Hem, in the Creuse, where one celebrates the memory of the resistant, known for his proximity to the peasant world.
Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch enters Paris's Pantheon
French resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on Tuesday, giving President Emmanuel Macron another chance to shape France’s national memory through one of the Republic’s most symbolic ceremonies.
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