Marc Bloch: a Life at the Service of France
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The historian and Resistant Marc Bloch made his entrance to the Pantheon on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. But this historical figure is also linked to a village of Seine-et-Marne. Did you know?
Emmanuel Macron, who is about to bring Marc Bloch into the Pantheon, is the president who has the most honour of great men and women. A memorial exercise that allows him to avoid his unpopularity, but also to prepare his legacy.
On Department 88, in Saint-Didier-de-Formans in Ain, north of Lyon, a monument pays tribute to 30 resistance fighters executed by the Germans on June 16, 1944, at the dawn of the day. The youngest was just 18 years old. The oldest was 57 years old: it was Marc Bloch, who led a life in the service of our country. His spirit of resistance still inspires us today. The historian will enter the Pantheon next Tuesday. His great-grandson maintains his …
“The Strange Defeat” by the historian Marc Bloch, who is due to enter the Pantheon on June 23, is surprisingly summoned to both sides of the political spectrum. His book, published in 1946, is a contemporary success, which says as much about our time as about the richness of the text itself.
The pantheonization of the historian, shot by the Germans because resistant, banned from France by Vichy because Jewish, must allow us to speak clearly about the demons that cross the country today.
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