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On February 10, 1878 Claude Bernard died in his apartment at Rue des Ecoles 40 in Paris. His death was probably as a result of renal failure due to pyelonephritis. The following day, by virtue of a proposal by Gambetta, the parliament decided to organize a national funeral at the expense of the state. On Wednesday February 12, 1878, his obituary filled half of the title page of the Le Figaro newspaper. On February 16, an impressive funeral cortege accompanied Claude Bernard to the Père Lachaise cemetery, where his two sons were also buried.

Immediately after his death, his friends and students collected money for a bronze monument in front of the Collège de France. Sadly, the bronze monument was melted during the Nazi occupation, but was replaced after the war with a stone one. Another monument can be found in the Claude Bernard University in Lyon. The city of Villefranche-sur-Saône debated the proposal of creating a monument but finally decided against it – it was mentioned that he, Claude Bernard, had been politically close to the Emperor and that he had been divorced. The European Association for the Study of Diabetes honored Claude Bernard by inaugurating a medal and lecture in his name. The first two winners of this lecture were subsequently awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.