Overview
- President Emmanuel Macron presides over the evening tribute at the Panthéon, with a procession up rue Soufflot and a brief address under the nave.
- Public commemorations began with a wake at the Conseil constitutionnel, where Badinter served as president from 1986 to 1995.
- The program features Julien Clerc performing L’assassin assassiné, plaidoiries and speeches by Badinter, and a Victor Hugo reading by actor Guillaume Gallienne.
- Badinter’s coffin is to be placed in the revolutionaries of 1789 vault near Condorcet, the Abbé Grégoire and Gaspard Monge, with a façade projection planned using his recorded voice.
- Officials frame the homage around three lifelong commitments: Shoah remembrance, abolitionism, and the defense of the rule of law, a legacy widely praised by attendees paying respects.