The date of Marc Bloch's entry into the Pantheon is now known. It will take place on June 23, Emmanuel Macron's entourage announced on Sunday. The Head of State announced last November the pantheonization of this historian, resistance fighter and committed intellectual executed by the Gestapo, during the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Strasbourg.
Published on: 02/09/2026 - 12:00 Modified on: 02/09/2026 - 12:00
The historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will enter the Pantheon on June 23, 82 years after his execution by the Gestapo in 1944, Emmanuel Macron's entourage informed AFP on Sunday February 8.
In November 2024, during a speech in Strasbourg on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Alsatian capital, the Head of State announced his pantheonization “for his work, his teaching and his courage”.
The president praised his “scathing lucidity which still strikes us today”, his “audacity of words and ideas which was coupled with physical courage” and his “French will until his last breath, until the assassination by the Gestapo”.
The date of June 16 had initially been anticipated for his entry into the Pantheon but the ceremony had to be postponed by a few days due to the G7 which will be held in Évian-les-Bains, in Haute-Savoie, from June 15 to 17.
In a letter to the President of the Republic, consulted by AFP, his family requested that "the extreme right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony".
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Tortured then shot
Coming from an Alsatian Jewish family, professor of Middle Ages history at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1936, Marc Bloch profoundly renewed the field of historical research by extending it to sociology, geography, psychology and economics.
In 1929, he notably founded with Lucien Febvre the journal "Annales d'histoire économique et sociale", which had an academic resonance throughout the world.
Captain and Croix de Guerre in 1914-1918, mobilized again in 1939, Marc Bloch joined the resistance at the turn of the years 1942-1943.
The author of "L'Étrange Défaite", written in 1940 and published after the war, was arrested in Lyon on March 8, 1944, imprisoned and tortured in Montluc prison, then shot on June 16 with 29 of his comrades.
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