Robert Badinter: Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to “the Republic made man’. The President of the Republic promised to be “faithful” to the teachings of the former Minister of Justice and announced an upcoming entry into the Pantheon.

“He was a very great Minister of. Justice, avery great lawyer and a verygreat humanist,” praises François Bayrou, short-lived Minister of justice, to the. media. ‘He was the great humanist of the century,’ says former Prime Minister Francois Bayrou.