Resistance Fighter and Historian Marc Bloch Enters Paris's Pantheon
The tribute honors his resistance work and intellectual legacy, and symbolic coffins will carry medals, photographs and letters instead of remains.
- 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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Long after he was murdered by the Nazis, Marc Bloch enters the Panthéon
Yesterday, Paris experienced two record-breaking events. The first was that the city’s temperature hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit, forcing tourist sites like the Eiffel Tower and Louvre to close early. The second occurred at the Panthéon, which remained open to welcome the coffin of Marc Bloch, the first historian to enter this hallowed site. The event was literally momentous. The massive 18th century structure, dedicated as the Church of Saint Gene…
Yesterday, in Paris, Emmanuel Macron presided over the ceremony of entry into the Pantheon of the historian and resistor shot by the Germans on June 16, 1944. In my chronicle today, I would like to raise above the Iranian-Trumpian miasms and pay tribute to Marc Bloch who has just entered the Pantheon, evoke the man rather than the great historian who, in association with Lucien Febvre, founded the Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, a maga…
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".
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