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France Honors Camus, And Fights Over His Grave Site

French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (shown here in an undated photo) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and died in a car accident in 1960. Debate is under way in France on President Nicolas Sarkozy's suggestion to relocate Camus' remains from Lourmarin, a small village in southern France, to Paris' Pantheon.
French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (shown here in an undated photo) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and died in a car accident in 1960. Debate is under way in France on President Nicolas Sarkozy's suggestion to relocate Camus' remains from Lourmarin, a small village in southern France, to Paris' Pantheon.

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