plinth: 200 x 100 x 20 cm, light plate: 128 x 75 x 12 cm, height: front: 34 cm, rear: 197 cm, pedestal 133 x 57 x 52 cm

[CONCESSION À PERÉTUITÉ No 76.875d [88-1844].

Location: div. 26, gr. 1 ch. Moliére, gr. 8 ch. du Dragon.

Copy of Proseper's inscription (1853) p. 109, without day dates.

D.C.: conc. redeemed d. 13 February 1844 by Louis Wolowski for a grave for his father François Wolowski.

Second conc. number determined from B.C. burial books. AMP MD, div. 26, no. 36 d. 12 February 1844. François Wolowski , pierre debout grille, jardin, dimensions 1: 1x2 2: 0.5x2 (3 m2), no. 76875 conc. 1: 88 of 13 February 1844, 2: 240 of 10 April 1844 bought by Louis Wolowski (zam. 21 rue Bergere), perpetual; Recueil 1855 pp. 287: Valowsky [s] sec. Q nos du Plan 97.

Monument erected on 12 May 1844 in the presence of numerous Poles (M. Mises, Polish Christians of Jewish origin vol. 2 p. 270, also Life of Franciszek Wolowski p. 27), ibid, partial copy of the inscription; in 2008 the tombstone was restored through the efforts of the TOZ with funds from the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation (ATOZ); "His Sejm colleagues called on their compatriots to honour his memory with a monument, which was erected on 12 May 1844 at the Père Lachaise cemetery, with an inscription composed by Bohdan Zaleski "Spółrodacy, spółwygnańcy. Pamiątce [s] obywatelskich polskich zasług Franciszkowi Wołowski XIII roku emigracji, położyli ten kamień" (W. Mickiewicz , Żywot Adama Mickiewicza pod podług zebrane przez siebie materjałów oraz własnych wspomnień, wyd. 2, t. 2, Poznań 1931 p. 315 fn. 3); measurement drawing, 3 projections, scale 1:20, made by B. Klosowicz , n.d. [2008](ATOZ); Documentation of conservation works carried out at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Tomb of Franciszek Wołowski , commissioned by the Society for the Care of Polish Historical Monuments and Tombs in France. ..., n.d. [2008], pp.1-9, (ATOZ); concession under the care of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Paris and TOZ (2007); Kronika Emigracya. Celebration of the erection of a grave monument for the late Franciszek Wołowski .

Following the call of MP Żarczyński , Poles gathered in quite large numbers, on Sunday 12 b. m. At the Pére-la Chaise mourning ground, for the erection of a modest monument on the grave of the late Dep. Volowski . The Polish priest X. Dabrowski read the Holy Mass in the local chapel, after which the whole procession went to the grave. At the ceremony were the two sons of the deceased: Ludwig, a lawyer and professor of commercial law at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, and Kazimierz, a clerk in the administration of iron roads, as lying P. Faucher , son-in-law of Wołowski .

The monument is of white marble made in the taste of Roman tombstones. On one of its sides, at the front, is the following inscription: SPÓŁRODACY, SPÓŁWYGNAÑCY, MEMORANDUM OF THE OBVIOUS POLISH SERVICE OF FRANCISZKA WOŁOWSKI DIED XIII ROKU EMIGRACYI, THE STONE HAS BEEN PLACED; on another the same in French.

After a short prayer and the sprinkling of holy water on the grave by the priest .... . Ledóchowski was followed by MP Żarczyński , as one of those delegated to take care of the erection of the tombstone.

"Journal National", Paris, vol. 4, 18 May 1844, no. 162 pp. 650-651