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I am sure that the French people and all the Freedom fighters will honor our memory with dignity
,” Missak Manouchian wrote to his wife before being shot by the Germans.
It is now done and it is the least our old country could do.
Through Manouchian and his FTP-MOI comrades, it is all the immigrant resistance fighters who are honored, these patriots who came from elsewhere with France in their hearts.
“
I don't have a drop of French blood, but France runs in my veins
,” Romain Gary liked to repeat, a phrase that Missak Manouchian could have made his own.
But from tribute to recovery, there is only one step that has unfortunately been taken.
Firstly, by the President of the Republic.
Was it necessary to establish subtle distinctions between those whose presence would be legitimate and those “who would be wise not to”?
asks the Deputy Editorial Director of Le
Figaro
and Director of Le
Figaro Literaire
, Étienne…
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