Un monde ou l'amour devrait preceder toute connaissance...

Thanks to the indomitable Aziz Ibrahim we have at last the photographs of the final resting place of Henry Corbin and his wife Stella Leenhardt. 

This is from the obituary published in  Le Monde, October 10, 1978:

"The orientalist Henry Corbin, who died on October 7, 1978, was buried in the cemetery of Champeaux, Rue Gallieni, in the city of Montmorency, Val d' Oise."


The inscription on the grave stone is from the closing paragraph in his  review of Jung's Answer to Job, « La Sophia éternelle » (à propos du livre de C.G. Jung : Antwort auf Hiob), Revue de culture européenne 5, 1953.  In the French original it reads:

Un monde ou l'amour devrait preceder toute connaissance, ou le sens de la mort ne serait que la nostalgie de la resurrection.



In English: ...a world where love would precede all knowledge and where the sense of death would be only a nostalgic yearning for the resurrection...

You can zoom in on "A" on the map below: Rue Gallieni, 95160 Montmorency, France

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