Eighty years to the day after being shot in the clearing of Mont-Valérien, in Suresnes, with 22 other members of the francs-tireurs et partisans de labour-immigrant (FTP-MOI), the poet and resistance fighter Armenian Missak Manouchian will enter the Pantheon on February 21, with his wife Mélinée.
Also resistant, she never stopped working for the memory of the Manouchian group until her death in 1989.
This pantheonization, made official last June by the President of the Republic, will be accompanied by an exhibition entitled “Live to die.
Missak Manouchian, a stranger to the Pantheon.”
The center of national monuments has, on this occasion, requested the departmental archives of Hauts-de-Seine for the loan of a “Red Poster” of which it has an original copy.
One of the posters put up in the streets by the Nazis and on which appeared ten resistance fighters, assimilating them to criminals.
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