Missak Manouchian, “preferably a Frenchman”, enters the Pantheon: behind the scenes of the ceremony

2024-02-20 04:38:27

On Wednesday, 80 years to the day after his execution, Missak Manouchian, worker and poet, “communist, Armenian, internationalist”, summarizes Denis Peschanski, historian of foreign resistance, will enter the Pantheon accompanied by his great love Mélinée. And with them, symbolically, a plaque bearing their name, the 22 other members of the Manouchian group. Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spanish, Romanians and French, who fought together against the Nazi occupiers in France. To these great men, the grateful homeland.