A GREAT POET

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 29, 10 June 1927, Page 6

A GREAT POET

VICTOR HUGO'S REMAINS. * A LONG DELAYED HONOUR. PARIS, June 1. The-official celebrations of the centenary of the Romantic movement in France are to be crowned by the transfer of the body of Victor Hugo from the cryitt of the Pantheon to a more worthy resting place under the great dome. For nearly 20 years there has been an agitation among the great poet's admirers for the honour which is how to be rendered to him. M. Gustave Simon, the executor of Hugo's will, who has led this agitation, said in an interview that he and the members of the poet's family considered that it was almost an insult to his memory to have allowed him to he buried in the crypt, which is visile;', clyefly on account pf its echo by foreign tourists, who used Hugo's tomb as a handy place on which to sjtrike their matches. The descendants of the great romantic poet had, in fact, determined that unless his remains were transferred to a more distinguished tomb they would demand their interment in the public cemetery of Pere Lachaise.