He blows out his hundred candles this Thursday.

Emmanuel Macron receives the philosopher Edgar Morin on Thursday to pay tribute to a man who does "the honor of France", with a reception in the presence of a hundred guests, announced the Elysee.

A "convinced humanist and European"

The Head of State "will deliver a speech to celebrate this hundredth anniversary and salute the journey of the one who entered the Resistance when he was not yet 20 years old, his commitments, in favor of the" Earth-Fatherland " for nearly 50 years and his contributions to the understanding of men and the world as a convinced humanist and European ”, indicates the Elysee.

"He will thus pay tribute to a man whose life and work do the honor of France", "one of the most eminent and best known French thinkers in the world", adds the presidency.

Other personalities will also speak to pay tribute to him, including the physicist and perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences Catherine Bréchignac, the conductor Jordi Savall, who will discuss the place of music and the dialogue of cultures in the path of Edgar Morin and journalist and essayist Laure Adler.

Pioneer of ecology

In February 2018, Edgar Morin signed in

Le Monde

a laudatory tribune for Emmanuel Macron, whose ability he praised to "be a literary and philosophically cultured intellectual and a man who has a career at the antipodes of philosophy, in banking and finance" .

But in his last book published in June, we also read his sympathy for the fiercest opponents of the head of state.

According to him, “many protests, anger and popular revolts, like the movement of the“ yellow vests ”, involve among their participants, not only certainly, but undoubtedly, the need to be recognized in their full human quality - which one calls for dignity ”.

This great pioneer of ecology has regularly denounced the “obsessed with profit” and the “overconsumption of unnecessary products” by wishing for a “green economy”.

Figure of the left - even if it is difficult to place in a particular box - Edgar Morin can be cited as a reference by many.

He recently celebrated the approach of his 100th birthday with a conference at Unesco.

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