PDT MACRON COMMEMORATES 150 ANNIVERSARY OF FRENCH REPUBLIC AT PANTHEON

USPA NEWS - French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Pantheon this Friday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, by Leon Gambetta on September 4, 1870 (the Third Republic), after the surrender of Napoleon III at the end of the battle of Sedan against the Prussians.
On the occasion of this anniversary that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron celebrates today, the 150 years anniversary of this proclamation of the (3rd) Republic in the Pantheon where the heart of Leon Gambetta was transferred. The Head of State introduced his keynote by a tribute to Leon Gambetta reminding that he was an Italian immigrant : « While the Empire had just been defeated in Sedan, a young 32-year-old deputy, Leon Gambetta, answered the call of the people of Paris and proclaimed the Republic from the balcony of the Town Hall. Leon Gambetta, whose words we have just heard, was like you, a son of immigrants, recently naturalized, French of mixed blood. Yet it was he who resuscitated the Republic, this political regime of freedom on which we have lived for 150 years. » President Macron stated.

PDT MACRON GIVES A TRIBUTE TO THE NEWLY FRENCH CITIZEN AND WORSHIP TO THE LEGENDARY ICONS IN PANTHEON------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Not only you are about to fulfill a dream of becoming French, but you do it in a special place, our Pantheon, where great women rest, great men honored by our homeland, yours now. And what is more, this ceremony of naturalization is held on the very day the Republic celebrates its anniversary. " addressed the President of the Republic Macron to Matthew, Nora, Patricia, Catherine, Rania the five citizens who became French, by decree of naturalization, before handing them their certificate of French nationality. This gesture is both original and very symbolic, for these five citizens (chosen at random, from the origins of England, Algeria, Lebanon, Peru and Lebanon). Indeed, each year, among the 12,000 naturalized persons, the Prefecture de Police de Paris, organizes a ceremony to award certificates of French nationality in its premises but also in an exceptional manner, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior at the Pantheon, but rarely in the presence of the President of the Republic.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The President Macron, sent a clear message "of fight "for" the transmission of the torch "on the part of five naturalized French citizens, to the younger generations, in the face of attempts at" separatism ". President Macron insisted on the importance of "conquering and re-conquering the Free Republic" because to be French is to passionately love Liberty "he declared.Emmanuel Macron also recalled the three pillars of the French Republic, Liberte Egalite Fraternite ", (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity French anthem) as well as the need to reaffirm the" secularism "which guarantees in France" the freedom of "worship ».

The President Macron has announced an upcoming tribute to human rights lawyer Gisele Halimi, at Les Invalides " A large petition (more than 1000 signatures in a few hours) has risen since her death, for this great feminist lawyer to be buried in the Pantheon. (See article : GISELE HALIMI A GREAT LAWYER AND FRENCH ICON OF FEMINISM DIES AT 93 IN PARIS PDT MACRON PAYS HER A TRIBUTE IN A TWEET : https://www.uspa24.com/bericht-17330/gisele-halimi-a-great-lawyer-and-french-icon-of-feminism-dies-at-93-in-paris.html) Launched by Louise Dubray, a psychologist who works for the association for the fight against violence against women Womensafe, the petition demands "a decent tribute to the one who has done so much for our country, for the cause of women, for that of homosexuals. them and against colonialism “. President Macron also paid a tribute to the legendary singer, dancer, big star of the music hall, who made resistance in France against the Nazis, hard during the Second World War.-------------------------------------------------------------- "Josephine Baker, born American, chose France to make him shine with her talent and her energy. She loved her adopted homeland to the point of risking her life for her by joining the resistance."-------------------------------------------------------------- A petition has been launched by Laurent Kupferman, pure that this artist, peerless, Josephine Baker is in the Pantheon alongside the only five Women, buried in the Pantheon, the most prestigious place of France welcoming the most famous illustrious Great Men (And Women). Josephine Baker is the first black international star, muse of the cubists, resistant during the Second World War in the French Army, active alongside Martin Luther King for civil rights in the United States of America and in France alongside la Lica, Knight of the Legion of Honor in a military capacity, Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 with palm, Medal of the Resistance (with rosette), Commemorative medal for voluntary services in Free France. We believe that Joséphine Baker, 1906-1975, has her place in the Pantheon, "says Laurent Kupferman in the petition addressed to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.The French head of state Macron, promised "to go further and stronger in the coming weeks, for equal opportunities" and finally announced a law next fall "against separatism".

150 YEARS AGO A FRENCH ITALIAN IMMIGRANT LEON GAMBETTA PROCLAIMED THE 3RD REPUBLIC Between the walls of the Pantheon, where the great women and great men honored by our Fatherland lie, today we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Third (3rd) Republic. For on September 4, 1870, when the Empire had just been defeated in Sedan, a young deputy, Leon Gambetta, answered the appeal of the people of Paris and proclaimed the Republic in the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville. On this anniversary which celebrates Republican continuity, six new citizens join the ranks of the French people. THE PANTHEON IS THE PRESTIGIOUS TOMB OF THE REPULBIC AND SECURLARISM---------------------------------- The Pantheon is at the center of these funerals that the young Republic organizes as a founding event of the republican symbolism. Indeed, when Victor Hugo died on May 22, 1885, a committee was charged with organizing the funeral that the government decided to be national. This committee includes illustrious names, such as Renan, Charles Garnier, Auguste Vacquerie, a close friend of the deceased, and Michelin, president of the Paris city council, then dominated by the radical left. He proposed to bury Hugo not in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, but in the Panthéon. Since 1876, the Republicans dreamed of restoring its secular destination. But the project voted by the chamber in 1881 had been rejected by the Senate. Only the fame of the author of Les Misérables imposes it brutally. Jules Grevy, President of the Republic, then decides to restore the Pantheon to its status as a republican temple.

IN THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS GRAVE PANTHEON 73 ILLUSTRATED MEN AND 5 WOMEN REST IN PEACE There are 78 personalities, that is to say 73 men and 5 women, who are people transferred to the Panthéon, in Paris 5th. More than half entered the Pantheon during the First Empire. Among the most illustrious men, mainly great writers, scientists and resistance fighters who died for France. We note the presence of a single president of the Republic, Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, Louis Braille (Scientist), Pierre Brossolette (War Resister), Rene Cassin (War Resister), Jean Moulin (War Resister), Antoine Saint Exupery (explorer), Alexandre Dumas (Writer), Victor Hugo (Writer), Andre Malraux (Writer), Jean Jacques Rousseau (Writer, Philosopher), Voltaire (Writer, Philosopher), Emile Zola (Writer), Felix Eboue (Politician), Victor Schoelcher (Politician), Jean Zay (Politician), Leon Gambetta (Politician), Jean Jaures (Politician), Pierre Curie (Physicist, Nobel Prize), Paul Langevin (Physicist), Gaspard Monge (Mathematician), Jean Monnet (Economist ), Jean Germain Soufflot (First architect of the Pantheon), Abbe Henri Gregoire (Religious), amongst others.On the female side female, only five women are in Pantheon. The most recently Panthoneized, was Simone Veil (deceased in 2013) and her husband Antoine Veil (Minister, Abortion Law) in 2018 (Hommage ceremony by President Macron) alongside Marie Curie (Physicist , Nobel Prize) Germain Tillion, (War Resister), Sophie Berthelot (Wife of Scientist Marcelin Berthelot) Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (War Resister)