Robert Badinter, the former lawyer and justice minister who persuaded France to give up the guillotine, will be laid to rest in the Panthéon on October 9, the anniversary of the 1981 abolition of the…

Robert Badinter, the former lawyer and justice minister who persuaded France to give up the guillotine, will be laid to rest in the Panthéon on October 9, the anniversary of the…

OP-ED. As Robert Badinter is inducted into the Panthéon on Thursday, October 9, former prime minister Michel Barnier reflects on the political legacy of his fight to abolish the…