Overview

• State ceremonies on Thursday coincide with the anniversary of the 1981 law that ended the death penalty in France.
• A public vigil will take place at the Constitutional Council the evening before, continuing the next day ahead of the transfer to the Panthéon.
• The procession on rue Soufflot will include musical interludes, notably Schubert, and readings of Victor Hugo and Badinter’s courtroom pleadings.
• Actor Guillaume Gallienne will read a text selected by Élisabeth Badinter, while President Emmanuel Macron will receive the coffin under the nave and deliver an address.
• Badinter will be installed in the vault of the 1789 revolutionaries alongside Condorcet, abbé Grégoire and the mathematician Monge, underscoring a legacy shaped by his 1972 turning point after witnessing an execution.