Overview
- The French state held a national homage for Edgar Morin on Wednesday at Les Invalides, where President Emmanuel Macron delivered a formal eulogy.
- Macron described Morin as “a destiny exceptional in the century” who never yielded to “the truth of a single camp” and praised his lifelong commitment to freedom, equality and complex thought.
- The ceremony was moved to the Cour Sud du Dôme because the usual Cour d'honneur is under renovation and followed military and musical rites including the coffin's entry to the drum, the 'Aux Morts' bugle call, a minute of silence and the Marseillaise by the Republican Guard orchestra.
- A large roster of political and intellectual figures attended, among them Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, former president François Hollande, several ex‑prime ministers, Morin's wife Sabah Abouessalam and Morocco's prime minister Aziz Akhannouch.
- Speakers stressed Morin's biography and work — born Edgar Nahoum to a Jewish family from Salonika, a Resistance member, a one‑time Communist who wrote Autocritique, and the author of the six‑volume La méthode and many ecological and interdisciplinary texts — as the basis for national recognition of his cross‑disciplinary legacy.