Overview

• The ceremony will feature a procession on rue Soufflot and a presidential address under the Panthéon’s dome, with readings by Guillaume Gallienne accompanied by Schubert.
• A vigil is planned at the Constitutional Council on the eve of the event, followed by the transfer of the coffin to the Panthéon the next morning.
• Flammarion has published Vivre, a collection of intimate texts drawn from interviews recorded for INA and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah between 2006 and 2023.
• LCP is broadcasting the documentary “Les Combats méconnus de Robert Badinter,” directed by Dominique Missika and Bethsabée Zarka, highlighting reforms on detention, exceptional jurisdictions, decriminalization of homosexuality, victims’ rights, and his decision to have the Klaus Barbie trial filmed for the archives.
• Newly surfaced Élysée archives reported by Le Nouvel Observateur include Badinter’s 23 October 1985 letter to President François Mitterrand opposing early release for two Abu Nidal members on moral and judicial grounds.