France Honors Camus, And Fights Over His Grave Site

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Wed, 01/27/2010 - 11:55pm

France has been celebrating the life and works of writer and philosopher Albert Camus, who died 50 years ago this January.

But the commemoration has been fraught with politics, after President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested moving Camus' remains from a village in the south to Paris.

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