In an interview with French television station BFMTV, Jeannette Bougrab, partner of slain Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier spoke about his death.

“He died standing,” Bougrab said. “He defended secularism, he defended Voltaire’s spirit, he in fact was really the fruit of this ideal of the Republic that we’ve almost forgotten. He died, executed with his comrades, as he would say.”

(h/t HuffPo)

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