On the announcement of his death, Emmanuel Macron had saluted the memory of a “major historian”, “first woman Permanent Secretary of the French Academy”and whose “legacy, like her, is immortal”. “Attached to the homeland that saw her grow up, to her language and her heritage, she will become French at the age of 21”he recalled in a message posted on Twitter.
“The President of the Republic and his wife salute an exceptional destiny, driven by the love of our country, its language and its culture, and the desire to write the history of the world in French to better serve our nation and our Europe”is it also specified in a press release sent by the Elysée.