During the commemorations of May 8 and the tribute to Jean Moulin, Emmanuel Macron testified, on Monday, that the Republic is "necessary, vital, just" The head of state associated the name of the former prefect and leader of the resistance who died in 1943 under torture with the historian Marc Bloch, also tortured and shot in 1944. "Moulin and Bloch tell us that the French Republic is by definition neither good nor bad, it is necessary, vital and just," he said.