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Sat 11 Nov 2009Sarkozy hopes to honour Camus by transferring ashes to Paris Panthéon
PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy has signalled his hope that the remains of the writer Albert Camus should be transferred to the Panthéon, the Parisian burial place of great Frenchmen.
With the 50-year anniversary of Camus’s death falling next year, Mr Sarkozy said it would make for “an extraordinary symbol” to award the posthumous honour to the Nobel laureate.
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