SAINT BARTHELEMY MONUMENTAL CEMETERY
Beside the church is the cemetery. The vaults of most of the bourgeois bourgeois families are gathered there. Many of these tombs were built in the th century. They also represent the art of living of the Belle Epoque (1870-1914). What a privilege - at this time - to make its family cellar built by a great architect! When one had the means… Charles Dalmas (1863-1938), for example, was most requested. Fashion is. Many monumental tombs evoke architectural influences: From neo-Gothic to arabesques, through neo-classical. Note the Italian inspiration, also present in the monumental statuary. The preponderance of «church» on some graves only reinforces the romance atmosphere of this cemetery. Needless to say, visitors noticed the graves of some of the buried celebrities: the Beleaguered family of Saint Joseph, Jean Behra (1921-1959), the Countess of Potocka or Laure La Poitevin (1821-1903), mother of Guy de Maupassant.
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