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Who Was Marc Bloch, This Historian and Resistant Who Will Enter the Pantheon on Tuesday?

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A major figure in the historical research and hero of the Resistance, Marc Bloch joins the Pantheon for his intellectual work and his republican commitment Marc Bloch will join on Tuesday the

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The historian and resistant to the Pantheon by presidential decision is a much less agreed and consensual figure than we often believe today. Back to the journey, the thought and the commitments of an unknown heretic

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The truth of a man condenses in a few words at the time of writing his will. It is even more true when this man is a historian and has reflected on the permanences of the passing time. In his last wishes, written at Clermont-Ferrand and dated March 18, 1941, Marc Bloch sums up with a quiet breath of patriotic momentum that will have animated him throughout his life: "Strange to all religious formalism as to all supposedly racial solidarity, I fe…

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The former Prime Minister and presidential candidate pays tribute to the historian, resisting tortured and then shot on 16 June 1944 by the Gestapo, who is due to enter the Pantheon on Tuesday 23 June.

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A major figure in the historical research and hero of the Resistance, Marc Bloch joins the Pantheon for his intellectual work and his republican commitment Marc Bloch will join on Tuesday the

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With Marc Bloch probably ends the series of the great Pantheonized of the Resistance by Emmanuel Macron. After the entry of Josephine Baker and the Manouchian couple under the dome, the historian of the Défaite Etrange joins, accompanied by his wife Simonne Vidal, two other great figures – besides Maurice Genevoix, witness of the Great War – what are...

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Resistant, historian, professor... The author of "L'Etrange détôt" is about to enter the Pantheon on Tuesday, June 23. What lessons does this still unknown figure of the general public leave us?

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La Croix broke the news on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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