Overview

• A vigil will be held at the Conseil constitutionnel on Wednesday evening before a Thursday transfer to the Panthéon via a rue Soufflot procession.
• The program includes Schubert interludes, readings of Victor Hugo and Badinter’s pleadings, a text read by actor Guillaume Gallienne chosen by Élisabeth Badinter, and a formal address by President Emmanuel Macron.
• Badinter will be placed in the Panthéon’s vault of the 1789 revolutionaries alongside Condorcet, Abbé Grégoire and Monge.
• A middle-school class from Cognin has been invited by the Élysée to attend the 7 p.m. ceremony, reflecting the town’s connection to his family’s wartime refuge.
• As justice minister in 1981, Badinter led the law abolishing capital punishment that was promulgated on Oct. 9, following a commitment forged after witnessing the 1972 execution of Roger Bontems and later reinforced in the 2007 constitutional ban.