Camus' children torn over Pantheon transfer bid

Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and Victor Hugo.

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French court OKs "Les Miserables" sequels

A French appeals court has ruled that two modern-day sequels to Victor Hugo's classic "Les Miserables" do not constitute a threat to the integrity of the novel or the moral rights of its 19th century author.

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French filmmaker Jean Delannoy dies at 100

Classic French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in 1946, has died at age 100, officials said Thursday.

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When it opened some critics hated it. An all-singing version of Victor Hugo's sprawling, multi-plotted novel set in post-Napoleonic France which combines themes of social commentary, moral philosophy and the nature of love. How daft was that?

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