Missak Manouchian, a memory built by poets. First Paul Éluard, then Louis Aragon and Léo Ferré made the Armenian and his foreign comrades revered figures of the French resistance.
The Head of State will have the delicate task of delivering a speech worthy of the man he will celebrate, but also of those who celebrated him before him. Without Aragon who praised him lyrically, would the Manouchians climb the Sainte-Geneviève mountain today?