Elysee presides over national tribute to Edgar Morin - Speech Brief
3 June 2026 00:00 UTC · Elysee · Elysee Statement · Source · Email X Link

Elysee presides over national tribute to Edgar Morin

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  • Elysee presided national tribute for Edgar Morin
  • Honors Morin as philosopher, writer, Resistance member, and sociologist

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  • Elysee presided over the national tribute to Edgar Morin on 3 June 2026.
  • Elysee says Morin was a philosopher, writer, member of the Resistance, and sociologist who embodied the ideal of the humanist intellectual committed to peace, dialogue between peoples, defense of international law, the European ideal, and the ecological cause.
  • Elysee recounts Morin's life: childhood losses and illness, Resistance activity and a near-miss with the Gestapo, postwar work in Germany, intellectual evolution, and a break with the Communist Party.
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Le chef de l'État a présidé ce mercredi la cérémonie d’hommage de la Nation à Edgar Morin, disparu le 29 mai dernier. Le chef de l'État a présidé ce mercredi la cérémonie d’hommage de la Nation à Edgar Morin, disparu le 29 mai dernier. Cet hommage national vient saluer le parcours d’un philosophe, écrivain, Résistant et sociologue du temps présent. Edgar Morin incarnait pour des millions de Français l’idéal de l’inte...

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