Son objects to moving Camus' remains

According to the New York Times on Sunday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to transfer the remains of the writer Albert Camus to one of the most hallowed burial places in France, "but the plan has run into opposition from the Nobel laureate’s son, who does not think his father would have wanted the honor."

New Outlet telegraph.co.uk has also picked up the story, notes the story is a blow to the French President who already has rocky relation's with the country's "literary elite."

The honor was intended to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Camus, author of The Stranger. Camus died in a car crash on January 1960 just south of Paris along with his publisher.

According to the Times, "Camus’s son, Jean, says interring his father’s remains at the Panthéon, the Paris monument to some of the great men and women of France, would be contrary to his father’s wishes and does not want to have his legacy put to work in the service of the state, Le Monde quoted an unidentified intimate of Mr. Camus’s as saying."

His daughter, however, manages his estate and plans to give approval for the plan to move the remains.

Though the decision is not final, the President has reportedly been in touch with the family to go on with his proposal.