France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) pays his respects to Aime Cesaire, poet and former mayor of Fort de France, during a national funeral ceremony at the Piere Aliker stadium on April 20, 2008 in Fort-de-France in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Cesaire died on April 17, aged 94. REUTERS/Patrick Hertzog/Pool (FRENCH ANTILLES)