89. Legacy Having never married or left issue, in his will Schœlcher distributed his money and donated his collection to Guadeloupe, which is now housed at the Schœlcher Musem (Musée Schœlcher) in Pointe-à-Pitre. First buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, his remains were transferred on 20 May 1949 to the Panthéon on the initiative of Senator Gaston Monnerville from Guiana. Schœlcher had wanted to be buried with his father Marc, who was therefore also interred in the Panthéon. The ashes of Félix Éboué, the first black person to be buried in the Panthéon, were transferred at the same time. In 1981, the newly elected President Francois Mitterrand placed a rose at Schœlcher's tomb in the Panthéon as part of his inauguration ceremony. Homages In homage to his fight against slavery, the commune of Case-Navire (Martinique) took the name of Schœlcher in 1888. The commune of Fessenheim turned his family's house into the Victor Schœlcher museum. The Place Victor Schœlcher in Aix-en-Provence is named after him. A street created at the south-eastern corner of the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris was named Rue Schœlcher in 1894 and Rue Victor Schœlcher in 2000. Two ships of the French Navy have been named Victor Schœlcher - an auxiliary cruiser during World War II, and a Commandant Rivière-class frigate in service 1962-1988. On 20 May 2020, two statues of Schœlcher were destroyed in Martinique. French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the acts. Another statue was destroyed in March 2021; their destruction was supported by activists from the separatist "National Front for the Liberation of Martinique", and represents part of wider protests against "colonial memory". He was honored by the department of Réunion on a commemorative note of five thousand francs first issued in 1946. Works De l'esclavage des noirs et de la législation coloniale (On slavery of blacks and colonial legislation) (Paris, 1833) Abolition de l'esclavage (Abolition of slavery) (1840) Les colonies françaises de l'Amérique (French colonies of America) (1842) Les colonies étrangères dans l'Amérique et Hayti (Foreign colonies in America and Haiti) (2 vols., 1843) Histoire de l'esclavage pendant les deux dernières années (History of slavery during the last two years) (2 vols., 1847) La verité aux ouvriers et cultivateurs de la Martinique (The truth to the workers and farmers of Martinique) (1850) Protestation des citoyens français negres et mulatres contre des accusations calomnieuses (Protests of black and mulatto French citizens against slanderous accusations) (1851)