Cimetière des Errancis
The Cimètiere des Errancis is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
He served initially from 1794 for ordinary burials and between March 24, 1794 (after the Cimetière de la Madeleine was closed for this) and May 1795, the burial of 1119 during the reign of terror and then guillotined in mass graves. This was followed by other executed people until 1795, some of them the perpetrators of the previous reign of terror. The cemetery was then used again for ordinary burials from August 1796 (as a replacement for the cemetery in Rue Pigalle) and was finally closed on April 23, 1797.
It is one of four cemeteries in Paris where the victims of the guillotine during the French Revolution were buried in mass graves, the others being the Cimetière de Picpus , the Cimètiere de la Madeleine and the Cimetière de Sainte-Marguerite .
It was located on the former wall of the general tenants and between today's Boulevard de Courcelles (where the wall ran), Rue de Rocher, Rue de Monceau and Parc Monceau. In the course of construction work for de Boulevard de Courcelles in the 19th century (between 1844 and 1859), the skeletons were transferred to the catacombs , but not marked (in contrast to those of the Cimètiere de la Madeleine). A commemorative plaque at 97 rue de Monceau commemorates the cemetery. There used to be an inscription at the entrance: Dormir. Enfin! (Finally sleep). The name Errancis (for estropiér ) comes from the former name of the northern part of Rue de Rocher, where many mills used to be. It was also called Monceau or Mousseaux Cemetery.
Among other things, the following were buried here (with the date of execution):
- Jacques Hébert (March 24, 1794)
- Georges Danton and the indulgent François Chabot , Jean-François Delacroix , Camille Desmoulins , Fabre d'Églantine , Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles , François-Joseph Westermann , Claude Basire , Joseph Delaunay (April 5, 1794)
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (April 13, 1794)
- Lucile Duplessis (April 13, 1794), widow of Camille Desmoulins
- Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert (April 13, 1794), widow of Jacques Hébert
- Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (April 23, 1794), lawyer for Louis XVI. in its process
- Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (May 8, 1794) and 27 other former tax farmers
- Elisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène de Bourbon (May 10, 1794), sister of Louis XVI. In 1817 her brother, the French King Louis XVIII. look in vain for her corpse here.
- Maximilien Robespierre and his followers Augustin Robespierre (his brother), François Hanriot , Louis Antoine de Saint-Just , Georges Couthon , Antoine Simon and the Mayor of Paris Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot (July 28, 1794)
- Charles-Gilbert Romme , the father of the French Revolutionary Calendar, committed suicide in the courtroom on June 17, 1795 before he could be guillotined.
- Martial Herman , Judge at the Revolutionary Tribunal (May 7, 1795)
- Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (May 7, 1795), the notorious public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal
literature
- Jacques Hillairet: Les 200 cimetières du vieux Paris , Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1958
Web links
proof
- ↑ So the commemorative plaque with the number of victims. Of these, 943 were directly victims of the reign of terror between March 25 and June 9, 1794, followed by 176 executed between July 11 and 29, 1794.
- ^ Website of the cemetery
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 50.7 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 0.4" E