Claude Monet's proposed re-buried in the Pantheon
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that "seriously deliberating" the possibility to transfer the remains to the Pantheon of the artist Claude Monet. About it writes The Independent. Now the dust Impressionist rests in a cemetery in the village of Giverny, Haute-Normandie, which he lived for over forty years, until his death in 1926.
In 1999 the artist moved the remains to the Pantheon invited prominent specialist in Monet Vildensteyn Daniel (Daniel Wildenstein). Jacques Chirac, who was then president of France, promised to do it, but have not fulfilled promises. Sarkozy has appealed to the son Vildensteyna. According to art critic and curator Guy Vildensteyna and the reburial could coincide with the grand opening of the exhibition Monet in Paris Grand Palace in September 2010.
Also Vildensteyn recalls that in the Pantheon, the Tomb of prominent Frenchmen, had hitherto been buried, only one artist, and not great: the remains of Joseph-Marie Vienne (Joseph-Marie Vien) buried there because of the fact that his paintings like Napoleon.
In 2009, Sarkozy has expressed the intention panteonizirovat Albert Camus. After this scandal emerged in society: opposed by the son of the author of "Plague" and "outsider" and French intellectuals. They said that the president of France with his right-wing views should not encroach on the glory of the leader of existentialism. Later, Sarkozy offered to enter the Pantheon of Chopin, whose 200-year anniversary mark in 2010.
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