In 1920, the debate was heated.
Should the unknown soldier be placed in the Pantheon or under the Arc de Triomphe?
One hundred years later, Emmanuel Macron reconciles the two logics in a way.
The one worn by the "horizon blue" room, where veterans were particularly numerous, and which defended the Arc de Triomphe, in the name of the exaltation of military combat;
and that carried by the government which wanted the Pantheon, in the name of a political vision, by desire to establish the Republic, fifty years after its last proclamation.
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A century later, the current head of state therefore honors those of 14 and the Arc de triomphe, for the usual ceremony, and in the Pantheon, where he will welcome Maurice Genevoix, one of the great feathers of the Great War, born, let us point out in passing, the same year and the same month as de Gaulle.
A detail which underlines the telescoping of the so-called memory sequences.
In two months, Macron will thus have completed a sort of secular triduum: the celebrations of
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