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Pierre tombale de Dom Pérignon dans l’église d’Hautvillers, région Champagne
Dom Pérignon is buried in the church of Hautvillers, région Champagne
Dom Pierre Pérignon, O.S.B., (c. 1638–14 September 1715) was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine in an era when the region’s wines were predominantly still and red. Popular myths frequently, but erroneously, credit him with the invention of sparkling Champagne, which didn’t become the dominant style of Champagne until the mid-19th century.
The famous champagne Dom Pérignon, the prestige cuvée of Moët & Chandon, is named after him.
La “Mort Saint-Innocent”
Provenant du cimetière des Innocents à Paris
Albâtre
H. : 1,20 m. ; L. : 0,55 m. ; Pr. : 0,27 m.
The emaciated image of Death was standing in the middle of the cimetière des Innocents. On its shield, this poem:
“Il n’est vivant tant soit plein d’art
Ne de force pour resistance
Que je ne frappe de mon dard
Pour bailler aux vers leur pitance
Priez Dieu pour les trepasses.”
When the cemetery closed, the statue was transfered to Saint Gervais, then to Notre Dame where the artist Deseine restored the arm, and finally to the Louvre.
Tata sénégalais de Chasselay
The tata de Chasselay is a necropole located in Chasselay where 194 tirailleurs from different African coutries are buried, after being slaughtered by the SS division Totenkopf in 1940. The necropole arbours an African architecture. Tata, in wolof, means “sacred wall” where warriors are buried.
Jean de LIÈGE (active from 1381 to 1403)
Charles IV, the Fair (d. 1328) and his wife Jeanne d’Evreux (d. 1371), each holding a bag containing their entrails
The burial of entrails
In his will of 1324, Charles IV the Fair bequeathed his body to be buried in the Abbey of Saint-Denis, his heart in the Dominican church of the Frères Prêcheurs de Paris, and his entrails in the Cistercian Abbey of Maubuisson (near Pontoise). It was customary in the 14th century for nobles to divide their remains among various religious sites, and therefore to erect a number of tombs. Such division of the body required pontifical permission.
Le cimetière des Saint-Innocents vers 1550, gravure, fin XIXème siècleEngraving depicting the Saints Innocents cemetery in Paris, around the year 1550
The Saints Innocents Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Saints-Innocents or Cimetière des Innocents) is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century. It was the oldest and largest cemetery in Paris and had often been used for mass graves. It was closed because of overuse in 1780, and in 1786 the bodies were exhumed and transported to the unused subterranean quarries near Montparnasse known as the Catacombs. The place Joachim-du-Bellay in the Les Halles district now covers the site of the cemetery.
The cemetery took its name (referring to the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents) from the attached church of the Saints Innocents that has now also disappeared.
Barthélemy PRIEUR
Berzieux (Marne), 1536 - Paris, 1611
Monument funéraire de Christophe de Thou (mort en 1582)
Buste, marbre rouge et blanc.
Génies, bronze.
Vertus, marbre.
H. : 0,74 m. ; L. : 1,59 m. ; Pr. : 0,32 m.
The historian Jacques Auguste de Thou ordered in 1585 a grave for his father, first president of the Parlement of Paris. Realised in the church Saint André des Arts in Paris, it was composed of the bust of the dead between the allegories of Justice and Prudence and two genius inspired by Michel Ange’s figures on the Medicis’ grave in Florence.
Tombe de Jean Sans Peur et de sa femme Marguerite de Bavière
John the Fearless expressed a wish for his own tomb, this time a double one with his Duchess Margaret of Bavaria, to resemble that of his father, but nothing was done, even after his death in 1419, until 1435, and in 1439 the artist de Werve died without having managed to find suitable alabaster to replace him. In 1443 a Spaniard, Jean de La Huerta, was contracted, and sent drawings for the effigies. He completed most elements, but not the effigies, before leaving Dijon in 1456. Yet another master was brought in, and the monument finally installed in 1470, by which time Philip the Good was himself dead
Pierre funéraire de Guillaume de Harcigny, 1394. C’est le plus ancien gisant-transi conservé en France. Guillaume de Harcigny était un célèbre médecin (Laon, vers 1300 - Laon, 1394) qui a soigné le roi Charles VI. Musée de Laon.
Guillaume de Harsigny (1300-1393), was a French doctor and court physician to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. One of the most notable physicians of his day, at age 92 Harsigny played a crucial role in the recovery of Charles VI of France from a coma brought about by a fit of insanity. Following his death in 1392, Harsigny was buried in a tomb at Laon which featured one of the earliest examples of medieval cadaver tomb sculpture
Remains of Saint Colette Ghent, Belgium
Saint Colette (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447), born Nicole Boellet (or Boylet), was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. Due to a number of miraculous events which occurred during her life, she is venerated as the patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers and sick children.
