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Missak Manouchian: A stateless hero enters France’s Panthéon

By France24
24 February 2024   |   1:37 pm
His life was worthy of a novel. An Armenian orphan who arrived in France as a stateless refugee and became a poet and Communist activist, Missak Manouchian was a figure of the French Resistance during World War II.

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