A Roma baby is to be buried in a French cemetery on Monday amid a row over the reported refusal by the mayor of a nearby town to grant her a grave, reports the BBC.
The baby will be buried in Wissous, south of Paris, after the town of Champlan reportedly refused her burial.
On Sunday Champlan's mayor denied this, but the case has sparked outrage.
The prime minister called it an "insult to France" and the French official in charge of defending human rights announced an inquiry.
The girl was born in mid-October and died on 26 December of sudden infant death syndrome.
The conservative mayor of Champlan, Christian Leclerc, was reported to have refused to bury her. He was quoted by Le Parisien newspaper as justifying the decision by saying that his town was running out of burial space and that "priority is given to those who pay local taxes".
On Sunday he said his words had been "taken out of context".
"At no stage was I opposed to this burial. It's been blown out of proportion," he told Agence France-Presse.