Memory Lost
After his death, even in France, his name mainly came up during copyright litigation cases. French courts ruled his compositions, including The Internationale copyrighted until October 2017.
There is a Pierre De Geyter street in Ghent and there are Pierre Degeyter squares both in Lille (in Fives, the suburb where he used to live) and in Saint-Denis. Lille also named a procession giant after him. A bronze monument to Pierre De Geyter has adorned the Ghent Museum of Industrial Art and Textiles since 1998. A documentary film on Pierre De Geyter and the story of The Internationale has been produced in 1978.
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Famous quotes containing the words memory and/or lost:
“Beauclerc: You’ve got a good memory for one who drinks.
Eddie: Drinkin’ don’t bother my memory. If it did, I wouldn’t drink. I couldn’t. You see, I’d forget how good it was. Then where’d I be? I’d start drinkin’ water again.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)
“If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)