According to the newspaper Figaro, about 400 people, including the head of state, attended the farewell ceremony for Samuel Pati at the courtyard of the Sorbonne.
"Samuel Party ... on Friday (October 16 -
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) became the face of the republic, our desire to defeat the terrorists ... We will not give up caricatures, drawings," said Macron.
He also pledged to "give back to teachers in every high school the right to create Republicans."
Earlier, the French anti-terrorist prosecutor's office said that the suspect in the murder of a teacher near Paris was able to find out information about the future victim from the students he had bribed.
On the evening of October 16, in a suburb of Paris, a young man beheaded a teacher, the attacker was shot dead by the police.
Macron called the murder a terrorist attack.
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