Errancis Cemetery
Errancis Cemetery or Cimetière des Errancis is a former cemetery in the
History and location
Errancis Cemetery opened on March 5, 1793, and was closed on April 23, 1797. On the site there are now apartments. The cemetery was located between the current Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Rocher, Rue de Monceau and Rue de Miromesnil,
During the French Revolution
The cemetery was used for the bodies of victims of the
Reputed to have been buried here (amongst the many others),[2] the date is the date of death:
- François Chabot (April 5, 1794)
- Georges Jacques Danton (April 5, 1794)
- Camille Desmoulins (April 5, 1794)
- Philippe Fabre d'Églantine (April 5, 1794)
- Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (April 5, 1794)
- Jean-François Lacroix (April 5, 1794)
- François Joseph Westermann (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
- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (May 8, 1794)
- Louis XVIII
- François Hanriot (July 28, 1794)
- Maximilien Robespierre (July 28, 1794)
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (July 28, 1794)
- Georges Couthon (July 28, 1794)
- Antoine Simon (July 28, 1794)
Famous others:
- Revolutionary calendar.
After the French Revolution
As with the Madeleine Cemetery, the bodies decomposed to a state where they could no longer be identified, this to the dismay of Louis XVIII, who came looking for the remains of his sister, Madame Élisabeth, in 1815. The skeletal remains were moved to the
Notes
The literal translation of Cimetière des Errancis is Cemetery of the Wandering.
The cemetery is reputed to have had a sign saying: Dormir. Enfin!, French for: To sleep. At last!.[4]
The cemetery was also known as the resting place of les estropiés,[5] French for the maimed.
The site was originally destined to become a charnier (charnel house).
Further reading
- Garnier, Jean-Claude; Jean-Pierre Mohen (2003). Cimetières autour du monde : Un désir d'éternité (in French). Editions Errance. p. 191. ISBN 978-2-87772-258-2.
References
- ^ Perrot, A.-M., Petit atlas pittoresque des quarante-huit quartiers de la ville de Paris, E. Garnot, Paris, 1835, 149p (used the 1987 reprint)
- ISBN 978-2-7491-1350-0
- ^ Hillairet, Jacques, Les 200 cimetières du vieux Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1958, 428p
- ^ French website dedicated to cemeteries that have disappeared
- ^ The Friends of Père Lachaise website