PARIS (Reuters) - Two men and two women who fought for the French Resistance in World War Two will join France's great citizens interred in the Pantheon in Paris next year, President Francois Hollande announced on Friday.
At a ceremony at Fort Mont-Valerien outside Paris, where a firing squad executed 22 resistance fighters and three high school students in 1944, Hollande said the four "embodied the values of France when she was low".
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