Legacy
In 1955, Louis Aragon wrote a poem memorializing the Manouchian Group, "Strophes pour se souvenir".
The poem was published in 1956 in Le roman inachevé. In 1959 Léo Ferré set it to music and recorded it as "L'Affiche rouge". Rouben Melik and Paul Éluard also wrote poems in honour of the Manouchian Group.
In 1997, at the prompting of Robert Badinter, the French Parliament authorized the erection of a monument commemorating the execution at Mont-Valérien between 1940 and 1944 of 1,006 citizens and members of the French Resistance, including the Manouchian Group. The sculptor Pascal Convert created the monument, and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin dedicated it on September 20, 2003.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)