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Cases about members of Académie Française. Memberships appear only where Wikidata records one for the person the case is about: societies, clubs, fraternities, academies, parties and councils.
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- 1951Pétain's property was confiscated in 1945 and his coffin was stolen from Île d'Yeu in 1973ina.fr and 3 more
- 1885Victor Hugo left 50,000 francs to the poor and asked for their hearse; France gave him a state funeral that drew more than two million peopledeslettres.fr and 2 more
- 1778Voltaire was refused a Paris burial in 1778, buried in secret, moved to the Panthéon in 1791 with his heart kept apart, and a legend says his bones were thrown away in 1814jackboulware.substack.com and 3 more