Thursday, February 15 in the morning, the blackened registers of condolences were sent to the Badinter family, the day after the nation's tribute chaired by Emmanuel Macron.
Some admirers queued for hours, in the rain, to fill out these notebooks made available for several days in the lobby of the Chancellery in Paris.
It is here that between 1981 and 1986 the illustrious Minister of Justice officiated.
“Thank you sir,” someone soberly wrote.
Others recalled at length the parliamentary debates on the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalization of homosexuality or Badinter's harangues against anti-Semitism.
Some pasted drawings.
The actor Charles Berling scribbled a few lines.
At the end of the last register, his current successor in government, Éric Dupond-Moretti, took up his pen to close the tribute.
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