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Long after he was murdered by the Nazis, Marc Bloch enters the Panthéon

JL;DR SUMMARY Marc Bloch, a French Jewish historian and Resistance fighter, was posthumously honored with interment at the Panthéon in Paris, an event marking his legacy as the first historian to be inducted. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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WwiiPatriotismEmmanuel MacronResistanceFrench HistoryMarc BlochPanthéonStrange DefeatFrench Historians

Places mentioned

Paris, France
"Frances President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the Pantheon induction ceremony for the late historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife Simonne Bloch in Paris on June 23, 2026."
Strasbourg, Grand-Est, France
"Bloch was born into a French Jewish family that chose to leave Strasbourg for Paris when Germany annexed their native Alsace in 1871."
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
"His good fortune lasted nearly two years when, in the late spring of 1944, he was captured in Lyon, then imprisoned and tortured in its notorious prison Mount Luc."
Germany
"Bloch was born into a French Jewish family that chose to leave Strasbourg for Paris when Germany annexed their native Alsace in 1871."

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