Jean-Jaurès high school in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine) will be renamed at the start of the 2024 school year "Missak" and Mélinée Manouchian. The couple of foreign resistance fighters recently pantheonized, the regional council of Ile- de-France announced on Friday.
Survivor of the Armenian genocide, stateless and communist, Missak Manouchedian became a figure of the Resistance. He was shot at the age of 37, with around twenty of his comrades. His wife Mélinee, also a resistance fighter, died in 1989.