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France honors foreign Resistance fighters as WWII hero Manouchian is inducted into the Pantheon

PARIS — When France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian and other foreigners among French Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked. French President Emmanuel Macron sought to change that Wednesday by inducting Manouchian into the country’s Panthéon national monument. A poet who took refuge in France after […]