Louis' momentous accomplishments on behalf of blind and visually impaired people were not fully recognized until many years after his death. In 1952, however, one hundred years after his death, Louis Braille's contribution was recognized in France and by the rest of the world. His body was reinterred in Paris in the Pantheon, the resting place of illustrious French men and women such as Voltaire, Zola and Marie Curie. However, Louis' hands were severed from his body and remain in an urn in the village cemetery of Coupvray, and Coupvray named the street where he lived after their famous son.