French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks with French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Friday at the latter`s home on the occasion of Lévi-Strauss` 100th birthday. Urging an unbiased look at primitive civilization and incorporating diverse subjects from mythology to food to anthropology through his book Tristes Tropiques (The Sad Tropics), Lévi-Strauss is hailed as the most erudite scholar in French intellectual history. When unable to attend a celebratory event at Musée du Quai Branly due to his frail health, Sarkozy visited Lévi-Strauss with Hélène Carrère dEncausse, president of the French Academy. Sarkozy said, I came to pay tribute to you on behalf of the French people. The French government will also offer a new award worth 100,000 euros (127,000 U.S. dollars) in Lévi-Strauss` name for an outstanding humanities scholar.