Part of the destiny of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian was played out in Essonne.
This Wednesday, February 21, the couple of Armenian and communist resistance fighters will enter the Pantheon, 80 years to the day after the assassination of Missak Manouchian, shot at the age of 37 by the Nazis at Mont Valérien (Hauts-de-Seine) alongside 22 other members of the FTP-MOI (Francs-tireurs et partisans — immigrant workforce).
History has recorded that it was at the Évry-Petit-Bourg station (today Évry-Val-de-Seine) that Missak Manouchian was arrested on November 16, 1943. But it had never before been publicly proven that a week before, he was in Brunoy.
Alain Senée, vice-president of the Society of Art, History and Archeology of the Yerres Valley (SAHAVY) took advantage of the pantheonization of the Manouchian to look into it.
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