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Camus to the Parthenon?

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Albert Camus’s death in January, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to honor him with a resting place in the Pantheon where great writers like Voltaire and Rousseau and Victor Hugo already lie.   Those buried in the Pantheon are called the “immortals.”  This is a great tribute to Camus, but I find myself hoping that Camus’s family will politely decline the offer, and keep him in his simple grave in sunny Provence, far from the pressures and politics of Paris.

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