French President Emmanuel Macron wants to reinter the remains of WWII anti-Nazi fighter, communist activist and poet Missak Manouchian in the famed Panthéon in Paris.

The news was reported today by the privately-owned Europe 1 radio station.

The Panthéon, in the French capital’s Latin Quarter, houses the remains of prominent French citizens, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Èmile Zola and Marie Curie.

Manouchian and twenty-one his comrades were arrested in November 1943 and executed by the Nazis on February 21, 1944. He is considered a hero of the French Resistance.

Manouchian is now buried at the Ivry Cemetery near Paris.

Many prominent politicians and public figures have campaigned for years to see that Manouchian enters the Panthéon. Among them is former French Ambassador to Armenia Jonathan Lacôte.

Manouchian was posthumously awarded The National Order of the Legion of Honour, the highest French order of merit, both military and civil.