“It is the struggle of the oppressed and the seizure of power by the workers”

It is in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, in Paris, that we find Philippe Poutou. He chose the Federated Wall, where 147 fighters of the Paris Commune were executed in May 1871, ending the Paris insurrection in blood. This wall, which has become a monument to the dead but also a symbol of the struggle for freedom and the ideals of the Commune.

Philippe Poutou and the other 2022 presidential candidates have made an appointment with Thomas Snégaroff in the place of their choice to deliver their intimate pantheon. One of the prerogatives of the President of the Republic is to decide who can enter the Pantheon. “Great men the grateful country” is it written on the monument of the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, in Paris. But even before entering the Élysée, each of the candidates for the presidential election is nourished by a personal pantheon. Authors, political figures, but also intimates, women and men, but also, why not, fictional heroes, who populate the imagination of the candidates, who built them. All these names, known or unknown, make it possible to better know candidates who engage as rarely.