Marc Bloch, historian and Jewish resistance fighter, will enter the Pantheon on June 23 | EUROtoday

Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the historian and Jewish resistance fighter Marc Bloch will enter the Pantheon on June 23, Emmanuel Macron’s entourage knowledgeable Agence France-Presse (AFP), Sunday February 8.

In November 2024, throughout a speech in Strasbourg on the event of the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the Alsatian capital, the Head of State introduced its pantheonization, “for his work, his teaching and his courage”. The president praised his “scathing lucidity which still strikes us today”her “audacity of words and ideas which was coupled with physical courage” and its “French will until its last breath, until assassination by the Gestapo”.

His household calls for that the far proper be excluded from the ceremony

Coming from an Alsatian Jewish household, professor of medieval historical past on the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1936, Marc Bloch profoundly renewed the sphere of historic analysis by extending it to sociology, geography, psychology and economics. Captain and Croix de Guerre in 1914-1918, mobilized once more in 1939, he obtained concerned within the resistance on the flip of 1942-1943.

The writer of The Strange Defeatwritten in 1940 and printed after the struggle, was arrested in Lyon on March 8, 1944, imprisoned and tortured at Montluc jail in Lyon, then shot on June 16 with 29 of his comrades.

The date of June 16 had initially been anticipated for his entry into the Pantheon, however the ceremony needed to be postponed by a couple of days because of the G7 which will likely be held in Evian-les-Bains, in Haute-Savoie, from June 15 to 17. In a letter to the President of the Republic, consulted by AFP, his household requested that “the extreme right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony”.