The Chartreuse Cemetery is the oldest and largest cemetery in Bordeaux. – Bordeaux France – ECTV
Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark’s travel videos and I’m in uh Bordeaux, France and I’m at the cemetery and you can see the arch behind me and I’ll show you the name and stuff here in a second and uh that way I’m not uh butchering it badly. Um Goya is about the only famous person I saw here. Um the cemetery was created and you can read that. Hit pause. I think you can see all that. It’s hard to tell. Oh, prominent. Okay. Stolen Goya. So, here’s Goya. All right. Well, let’s just go take a look and see what we see. And I’ll tell you on the map, it is enormous. Um, and I can’t even see the end of that street over there. And it, uh, it’s a big place, you know, Porto St. Bruno, but St. Brono, Bruno is the church across the street. Uh, I think I came in. Oh, there’s Brono. Bruno. St. Bruno. And I think Goya is over here somewhere if I remember right. So I think if I just go all the way down here, he should be on the right. And that might just give us enough time to share what this place looks like. And it is big. And it it is uh it’s really you know I I’ve been to lots of cemeteries in my years and uh you know you go to some and they’re all they all have to be certain types of you know kind of headstones laid out or you know um maybe more crypts more inground more whatever but this is a mix. So, the ones that are like this, that’s a crypt. The one behind there is a crypt crypt. But this one’s an ingground. Um, and yeah, I get it. They can mix it up and do as they do. I’m just saying that uh um there’s there’s maybe more uniformity in how they bury people. I don’t I don’t know. Um pardon me. But, uh, certainly amazing, huge. I mean, it really, if you look at a map, if you just go to Google maps and look up cemetery of Bordeaux, it’s bigger than the whole square and the church and the the government buildings and everything else. It really is huge. Um, wow. And some of them are really pretty and well taken care of. Like these have flowers growing over the top over there. Um, wow. Wow. And some of the crips are amazing. And you read from the thing that some have obviously been broken into. The glass is broken, the doors gone, the hinges are ripped off. This one too. Well, at least the door is intact, but there’s a bunch of people down there. Is that a service or is that? All right. All right. I have to go look now. Could that be Goya? He’s a Spanish painter, isn’t he? I think. I don’t, you know, every time I do one of these videos, my ignorance just comes flying through, doesn’t it? Wow. Some are certainly amazing, aren’t they? And you can see, I mean, it goes and goes and goes and goes and goes more. Um, I don’t know. Henry somebody. Okay. I I you know without a map, without anything, I don’t know that I’m going to find Goya. But uh it doesn’t make it less beautiful, does it? Can you call a cemetery beautiful? Is that weird and some are amazing, have great stained glass and um just are amazing. San Antonio. He was from Madrid, Spain. Florida. Madrid, Spain. Francisco Goya. Um, yeah, I don’t know. Let me look online real quick and see what I can find. and I’ll be right back. Well, I couldn’t find a street number, but I found out what it looks like. It’s a round one, and it’s on a like a mini street. Um, let me show you. Can you guys see that? That’s what we’re looking for. And I think it’s over here somewhere. I’ll turn left at the next street. You know how hard it is to search for a specific uh headstone tomb here? I mean, it’s pretty tough. Guess what everybody? You know, if I can see something, I can usually find it. And that’s it right in front of me. I won’t do the who’s your daddy happy dance here, but that’s Goya. Pretty amazing. 1746. Huh? Okay. Monument doesn’t say really too much. Um, but that’s Goya. Pretty amazing, everybody. All right. Well, I guess I will uh call it a day and head back. Actually, let me get a picture of this just so that I want to see his name plate. Cool. Okay, you can see how huge this is. I mean, you almost can’t see the end of this street here. And I’ve been walking a while. Wow. And it still goes way, way, way on. You can’t see the end down that way. And you can’t see the in down this way. Big cemetery, everybody. If cemeteries your thing, you now have a flavor for what to expect and what to see here. And it was free to get in. Um, and uh, it’s really well taken care of. I mean, the grounds are amazing. The even the bushes and the trees and stuff are all pruned and cleaned and nice. The grounds are wonderful. Um, they certainly take care of their folks here. Um, even in between. So, I’ve been even when I went over to uh what’s the guy from the doors to his I mean the you know the grass was kind of overgrown and stuff like that but still um no less amazing but uh wow look at that one. Hang on a second. I got to look at this. Look at all the pictures. Oh, they’re little amazing. Okay. Well, I’ll stop talking and uh get to my next site. Thanks for coming along with me. Thanks for sharing the Well, anyway, thanks for coming along with me. Bye, everybody.
The Chartreuse Cemetery is the oldest and largest cemetery in the city of Bordeaux.
History
With an area of 25.7 hectares[1], it was laid out at the end of the eighteenth century on the former gardens of the Carthusian convent. The district was once a swamp and in 1610, Cardinal-Archbishop François de Sourdis undertook the draining with the help of the Carthusians, for whom he built the Chartreuse Notre-Dame-de-Miséricorde, of which only the door at the entrance to the cemetery remains today. You can discover a wide variety of funerary monuments from the nineteenth century, including several pyramids and very large vaults.
On 8 April 1921, the cemetery was classified as a historical monument[2].
The monument to the dead of Bougie (now Béjaïa) of French Algeria (twinned city with Bordeaux in 1956) was transferred there around 1968. It is composed of twenty-four bronze plaques and depicts the dead of the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
Personalities
Like the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, several personalities were buried there. These include:
Marshal of France Alphonse d’Ornano (Bastelica, 1548 – Paris, 21 January 1610), colonel in the service of King Henry II, former mayor of Bordeaux from 1604 to 1610.
The painter Francisco Goya (his body rests today in Madrid, Spain, a monument is dedicated to him in the cemetery)
The Convention member Charles-François Delacroix (1741-1805, father of the painter Eugène Delacroix)
General Élie Papin (1771-1825) and the heart of General Moreau (1763-1813) (generals during the French Revolution)
The painters Louis Cabié (1853-1939), Louis Dewis (1872-1946), Pierre Lacour (1745-1814), Maxime Lalanne (1827-1886)
The actors Ulysse Despeaux, Pierre Ligier (1796-1872), Marcel Tiber
The politician Gustave Curé (1799-1876), who was mayor of Bordeaux (1848-1849).
The musicians Charles Calendini, Germaine Bovie, Jacques Dejean (1919-2013).
The sculptors Amédée Jouandot (1833-1884) and Dominique Fortuné Maggesi (1801-1892).
The writer Flora Tristan (1803-1844, woman of letters and feminist, grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin).
Blessed Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850), founder of the Marianists.
Léon Pallière (1787–1820), French neo-classical painter
Alexandre-Étienne Simiot (1807-1879), journalist and politician from Bordeaux.
Léo Drouyn (1816–1896), French architect, archaeologist, painter, draughtsman and engraver.
Ernest Godard (1826–1862), French physician and anthropologist
The doctors and professors Adolphe (1842-1899), Timothée (1850-1905), and Ferdinand Piéchaud (1890-1958).
Aurélien Scholl (1833-1902), journalist, playwright, columnist and novelist.
Jean-Fernand Audeguil (1887-1956), deputy of the Gironde from 1936 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1956, he was mayor of Bordeaux from 1944 to 1947.
Noël Lacroix (1746-1813), refractory priest, superior of a seminary, canon of Bordeaux.
The journalist and historian Maurice Ferrus (1876-1950), author of a monograph on the cemetery, in 1911.
The cartoonist and journalist Jacques Le Tanneur (1887-1935).
Félix Jaquemet (1915-1945), French resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation.
Henri Labit (1920-1942), French resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation.
Eugène Vergez (1846–1925), French painter and illustrator
This site is served by line A of the Bordeaux tramway: Gaviniès, Hôtel de Police and Saint-Bruno-Hôtel de Région stations
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