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To attribute little importance to so-called political opinions, when the nation is in peril of death - the nation, not a nationalism then crushed under Hitler's tanks, but the invincible and mysterious datum.
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By welcoming, on December 19, 1964, the entry into the Pantheon of Jean Moulin "
with his people born from the shadows
», André Malraux asked the question of what makes a people and a nation.
Thursday, the ceremony organized at the Order of the Liberation for the 80th anniversary of the French Resistance medal was a great response.
That day, in the presence of their family and children from Montceau-les-Mines, a medal-winning town, France took on the faces of Mauricette Loutski, Jean Belloni, Joseph Halaunbrenner, Albert and Edmond Péresse, decorated posthumously.
The faces of tortured, shot, deported.
By the chance of attributions, the France of the red poster united with that of the Breton resistance, the FTP with the FFI, the rose with the reseda.
The medal that Mauricette received…
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