Overview

• A public wake will be held at the Conseil constitutionnel on Oct. 8, open from 5 p.m. to midnight and resuming the next morning for those wishing to pay respects.
• The one-hour ceremony is set for 7 p.m. on Oct. 9, with President Emmanuel Macron receiving the coffin after its ascent of rue Soufflot and delivering a speech.
• The program features readings of Badinter’s pleadings, a Victor Hugo text read by actor Guillaume Gallienne, and a performance of Julien Clerc’s “L’Assassin assassiné,” with additional Schubert excerpts planned.
• Organizers say the tribute will highlight three dimensions of his life: the memory of his father’s persecution under Nazism, his embodiment of the rule of law, and the 1981 abolition of capital punishment, marked by the ceremony’s anniversary date.
• After a night under the Panthéon’s dome, Badinter will be installed in the caveau des révolutionnaires de 1789, joining Condorcet, the abbé Grégoire and Gaspard Monge.