Manouchian et ceux de l'Affiche rouge

On February 21 2024, Missak Manouchian will enter the Panthéon on behalf of all his comrades, 80 years to the day after their execution. 22 men and one woman, all Communists, almost all foreigners, many of them Jewish, who gave their lives fighting the Nazis. Resistance fighters whom the Germans sought to discredit by staging their trial in February 1944 and plastering the whole country with the Red Poster, denouncing their alleged "terrorist crimes". This red poster would, on the contrary, make them legendary, thanks to a poem by Louis Aragon, set to music by Léo Ferré.