"Enter now, Jean Moulin, with your terrible cortège!"
In the darkest days of the twentieth century, when the Nazi dictatorship was rounding up and arresting people left, right, and center, the Gestapo used the bath as a means of torture to make the partisans talk. Jean Moulin, the French Resistance leader betrayed by a mole, was to suffer this ordeal.
When his ashes were transferred to the Panthéon in 1964, André Malraux, Minister of Culture in Charles de Gaulle's government, was to give his most famous speech, which alluded to the bath torture.