(ANSA) - PARIS, MARCH 04 - 109 Marianne at the Panthéon.
On the occasion of International Women's Rights Day, the exhibition '109 Mariannes', inaugurated by the Minister responsible for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, opens today, 4 March, on the roundabout of the Panthéon in Paris.
A symbolic figure of the French Republic, Marianna embodies the values of France summarized in the famous motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité".
Today, it is these republican freedoms and values that the current administration of Emmanuel Macron intends to celebrate despite coronavirus-related restrictions.
Since the times of the Third Republic, well-known French women have embodied the traits of the Marianna.
Among these, Brigitte Bardot, Inès de laFressange, Laetitia Casta, Mireille Mathieu.
All have represented the image of France at home and in the world.
This year, the Ministry of the Interior promotes the new blood of the Republic, through 109 portraits of women who symbolize the so-called France of the diversity of origins.
As many faces of French citizens, including Amandine Petit (Miss France 2021) April Benayoum (MissProvence), the virologist Karine Lacombe, the first female rabbi, Delphine Horvilleur, the militant for the Human Fraternity and mother of the first soldier murdered in Toulouse in the attacks perpetrated by Mohammed Merah, Latifa Ibn Ziaten, but also feminists, policewomen, nurses, cleaners, who have been at the forefront of the fight against the invisible enemy.
Entirely in the open air, the exhibition open until March 15 aims to promote the diversity of the towns and highlight the new faces of France today and tomorrow.
(HANDLE).