Bringing the state back into memory studies: commemorating the Righteous in France, 2007-20

Delves into the triangle of local, national and transnational memory politics, activism and demonstrates how, after the meteoric rise of the Justes de France (Righteous of France), which peaked with the introduction to the Pantheon in 2007, French commemoration of the Righteous became in the last decade both much more widespread and more diverse and polyphonic. In France the influence of public policy in the field of memory is restrained. Thus the state promotes certain topics but does not directly interfere in the content and form of such commemorations.