Marc Bloch to Be Inducted Into the Panthéon Under His Descendants' Watchful Eyes
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The historian Nicolas Offenstadt explains why this resistor cannot be recovered by the French far right, despite the attempts. A convinced republican, open to Europe, Marc Bloch also revolutionized the perception of medieval historySpecialist of the work of Marc Bloch, the historian Nicolas Offenstadt questions the symbolic and political significance of the entry into the Pantheon on June 23rd of the one who was soldier during the two world wars…
EXCLUSIVE - The historian and resistor honored Tuesday night "speaks something of our time," says the head of state, who probably presides over the last pantheonization of his presidency.
Marc Bloch to be inducted into the Panthéon under his descendants' watchful eyes
On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron will preside over his sixth and potentially his final Panthéon induction ceremony, honoring historian Marc Bloch. The Bloch family has set conditions, notably asking that 'the man's uniqueness' be respected.
On June 23, 2026, for the first time, a historian entered the Pantheon. Marc Bloch is not only one of the greatest intellectuals of his generation, an absolute pioneer of the human sciences with delicate and elegant prose, but a humble hero of the two world wars, recognized for his organizational skills and his almost sacrificial courage. A member of the Resistance in Lyon, he was arrested, tortured and then shot by the Nazis in June 1944.
Emmanuel Macron will bring the historian Marc Bloch, soldier and resistanceman murdered by the Gestapo, to the Pantheon Tuesday, June 23, 2026, a tribute to the "man of the Enlightenment" and the "thinker of the century".
Marc Bloch embodied in an exemplary way, in a moment of extreme crisis and generalized defeat, where many lost all reference points, what are intellectual values at the service of action: honesty, the quest for truth, the concern for inner coherence, rigour
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