France inducts Resistance hero Manouchian into Panthéon • FRANCE 24 English

Beneath the famed Pantheon Li buried the figures that shaped the history of France at a special ceremony on Wednesday and with State leaders watching on a new member joined that prestigious company you enter here as a soldier with your comrades you join the resistance fighters in the pantheon and France recognizes

You the Armenian poet is the first non-french resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon’s famed mosum as a young man in the 1920s manushan was forced to flee Armenia following the genocide caused by the Ottoman Empire he arrived on French Shores where he pursued poetry and worked at a shipyard but despite requesting French

Nationality twice he would be denied both times rendering him stateless manushan would join France’s Communist Party in the 1930s and would had gone to lead their armed resistance in 1943 with several successful missions against the Nazi occupiers of Paris but he was arrested and tortured before being shot dead by a firing squad

Alongside 20 others the Nazis would use an image of that group for propaganda what became known as the red poster but rather than being demonized the fighters became immortalized in French culture it’s this working class who paid dearly for their commitment to the resistance who are going back to the

Pantheon you can imagine the honor this represents for all those tens of thousands who paid with their lives and all those who survived and have never forgotten after many years manuia has his recognition buried with his wife mire and a plark with the names of his 23 comrades in arms

French President Emmanuel Macron led a ceremony Wednesday honouring Missak Manouchian, a stateless poet of Armenian origin who died fighting the Nazi occupation during World War II. Manouchian’s induction into the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris alongside other French national heroes is seen as a tribute to all the foreign fighters who joined the Resistance.

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