Historian and Resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who was tortured and executed by the Gestapo in 1944, will enter the Pantheon on Tuesday in a rare tribute reserved for France's most revered historical figures.
The ceremony at France's secular temple of national memory will celebrate his intellectual legacy, as well as his role in the fight against the Nazis.
He will become the first historian to enter the Pantheon, an honour reserved for the most exceptional figures from the worlds of politics, culture and science.
"It's a tremendous recognition," said Suzette Bloch, the historian's granddaughter, a former AFP journalist.
President Emmanuel Macron has described the historian of Jewish heritage as a "man of the Enlightenment in the army of the shadows" -- a reference to the French Resistance.
