Cimetière de la Chartreuse
The Cimetière de la Chartreuse ( German "Cemetery of the Charterhouse") is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in the French city of Bordeaux .
history
The cemetery was laid out in the garden of the former Carthusian monastery at the end of the 18th century. The site used to be a swamp area , which Archbishop François de Sourdis had in 1610 drained with the help of the Carthusians for the construction of a Carthusian monastery , of which only the cemetery portal remains today. The portal was placed under monument protection on April 8, 1921 as Monument historique .
In 1968 the monument to the fallen was transferred from the Algerian twin town of Bougie (now Bejaia). It consists of 24 bronze plaques and is dedicated to the victims of the two world wars .
Graves
The 25.7 hectare cemetery features a wide variety of nineteenth-century grave monuments, including several large mausoleums and grave pyramids . The graves of some famous people can be found here:
- the painter Francisco de Goya (1746–1828), a memorial in the cemetery is dedicated to him, his body was transferred to Madrid in 1919 and buried there
- Charles-François Delacroix (1741–1805), revolutionary minister and father of the famous painter Eugène Delacroix
- General Élie Papin (1760–1825) and the heart of General Jean-Victor Moreau (1763–1813)
- the painters Louis Cabié , Louis Dewis , Pierre Lacour and Maxime Lalanne
- the actors Ulysse Despeaux , Pierre Ligier and Marcel Tiber
- the musicians Charles Calendini and Germaine Bovie
- the sculptors Amédée Jouandot and Dominique Fortuné Maggesi
- the writer Flora Tristan (1803–1844), suffragette and grandmother of Paul Gauguin
- Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade (1761–1850), founder of the Marianists
- Alexandre-Étienne Simiot (1807–1879), journalist and politician
Jean Catherineau's tomb
Monument to Goya
Charles Delacroix grave
Web links
- Le Cimetière de la Chartreuse Brochure of the city of Bordeaux with the location and description of individual graves (PDF; French, English)
- Famous people on the Cimetière de la Chartreuse (French)
- The Bourgie Fallen Memorial (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry no. PA00083163 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ The property 000 IX 1 , which corresponds to the cemetery area, is recorded in the French cadastre with a size of 257,130 m².
Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 8 " N , 0 ° 35 ′ 38" W.