“These millions of anonymous workers” at the Panthéon by Nathalie Arthaud

Nathalie Arthaud arranged to meet us at the Gare de l’Est, in Paris, because in her personal Pantheon there are first and foremost all those people who work! She particularly evokes the nurses, who would have their place in the real Pantheon. But there is also Marx, of course, and his courageous grandmother, who saw his political commitment. And then, of course, there is Arlette Laguillier, with whom Nathalie Arthaud works every day.

Nathalie Arthaud and the other candidates for the presidential 2022 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.