Tag: Manouchian
“Quiet heroism”: Missak Manouchian, first foreign resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon
A hero of the stateless French resistance will enter the Pantheon. Emmanuel Macron will formalize this Sunday, during his traditional speech for the June 18 appeal at Mont Valérien, the…
France: Missak Manouchian, survivor of the Armenian genocide, stateless and communist at the Pantheon
Like every June 18, France remembers General de Gaulle’s call in 1940 for resistance against Nazi Germany. This call is marked at Mont Valérien, west of Paris, one of the…