<img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2024/02/22/0/0/8050/5367/1440/960/60/0/13da46c_5704805-01-06.jpg" alt="Inline image" width="100%" height="auto"> <p class="article__paragraph ">Eighty years to the day after his execution by the Nazis in France in 1944, alongside 24 other Resistance fighters, Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée became the first foreigners and Communists to enter the Panthéon on Wednesday, February 21.</p> <section class="catcher catcher--favoris"> <div class="catcher__content"><span class="catcher__title catcher__title--hide">Read more</span><span class="catcher__desc"> <span class="icon__premium"><span class="sr-only">Subscribers only</span></span> <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/02/22/france-honors-wwii-heroes-as-resistance-fighters-join-pantheon-in-moving-ceremony_6548449_157.html" class="js-article-read-also catcher--favoris__link" data-premium="1">France honors WWII heroes as Resistance fighters join Panthéon in moving ceremony</a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="author"> <p class="article__author-container"> <span class="author__detail"><a class="article__author-link" href="/en/signataires/romain-egea/"> <span class="author__name">Le Monde's video desk</span></a></span> </p> <p class="article__mention">Translation of an original article published in French on <a href="https://lemonde.fr">lemonde.fr</a>; the publisher may only be liable for the French version.</p> </section> 

Video - President Emmanuel Macron presided over the tribute ceremony marking the entry into the Panthéon of the Resistant fighter{ai:summary}<p>Missak Manouchian and Mélinée are honored at the Panthéon for their role in the Resistance during WWII, becoming the first foreigners and Communists to be buried there.  #history</p>

Video. Watch the moment Resistants Missak and Mélinée Manouchian are inducted into Paris Panthéon

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