Tombstone of Georges and Lucien Dampt and Marie Wiszniewska, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of Georges and Lucien Dampt and Marie Vishnevskaya

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-019332-P/194068

Tombstone of Georges and Lucien Dampt and Marie Vishnevskaya

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

On a pedestal with a stepped top, a cone-shaped cap, at the head on two stepped bases a stele with curved sides surmounted by a tympanum cap with acroterions at the corners, on top of the tympanum is a circle with a five-pointed star, on the stele is vertically mounted a broken palm branch cast in bronze on which in the lower part is an open notebook and a bird's feather for writing and three poppies, one of which has a broken stem.

Inscriptions: in the tympanum of the stele (1), on the stele (2), on a bronze cast open notebook placed on a palm branch: left card (3), right card (4).

Inscription:

1. FAMILLE DAMPT //.
2. GEORGES DAMPT / 1858 - 1886 / PRINCESSE / MARIE GABRIELLE HORTENSE / WISZNIEWSKA / 23 9BRE 1903 / LUCIEN DAMPT / 3 AOÛT 1912 //.
3. A travers le bon vivre qui / eclairait son visage, on / entrevoyait une âme / vibrante omue au / mo[.]souffle ouverte / a toutes les / tendresses / Jean des Vignes //.
4. Mademoiselle Valérie / La Beauceronne / Mon premier duel / Coeur de Bronze / Moine aux francs / Eau forte / Le client de maitre Mûrier / Ńounou La Gendarme / St Georges / Yolande / Duo-Barlinche //.

Tombstone location:

Sector number 53 Tomb number 175

Dimensions:

210 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

height: front: 70 cm, rear: 210 cm

Materials:

limestone, copper alloy (bronze, brass or bronze alloy)

Additional Information about materials:

bronze (plaque with inscription and palm branch)

Ceator's signature:

BATIE MR //.

Creator:

Batie Mr (zakład kamieniarski; Paryż)

Additional information:

concession no: C. A P. No 275 ANNÉE 1886

the concession was purchased on 11 August 1886 by Gabrielle Marie Hortense Dampt, née Hugot, for a family tomb

location: div. 53, row 2 ch. du Bastion (div. 52), gr. 10 ch. du Busard (gr. 24 passage)

Juliette Malvine Guyard princesse de Wiszniewski, resident in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, may also have been buried in this concession

inscription (4) is the literary work of Georges Dampt, e.g. Mademoiselle Valérie, roman, préface de Jules Lemaître, Paris, Lemerre, 1887, no further titles are available in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, these works may have been published in weeklies such as "La Vie Populaire"

Georges Dampt, born on 28 July 1858 in Auxerre, son of Félix Dampt and Gabrielle Marie Hortense (née Hugot), after her second husband Wiszniewska, brother of Lucien Dampt. Professor of rhetoric, doctor of medicine, writer, editor of the journals Voltaire and Revue politique et littéraire. Died on 15 March 1886 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris

Lucien Dampt , born on 31 October 1859 in Auxerre, son of Félix Dampt (1826-1882) and Gabrielle Marie Hortense, née Hugot. Brother of Georges Dampt, husband of May Lewis. Died on 3 August 1912 in Paris at 2 rue Ambroise-Paré

Marie Gabrielle Hortense Wiszniewska, née Hugot, born in Auxerre, daughter of Victor Hugot and Hortense Lordeau. Widow of Félix Dampt, mother of Georges Dampt and Lucien Dampt. On 29 February 1896, in Paris, she married Adam Wiszniewski, born on 15 December 1826 in Krzemieniec, a pensioner, son of Michał Wiszniewski and Elżbieta Lisiecka. Witnesses at the wedding included Jean Baptiste Auguste Dampt. Marie Wiszniewska died on 23 November 1903 in the marital flat at 7 bis rue du Débarcadère in Paris. She was buried on 25 November 1903 at Père-Lachaise Cemetery (annual number 835).

Juliette Malvina Guyyard, born on 27 January 1829 in Tilly-sur-Seulles, daughter of Auguste Louis Guyard and Rose Madeleine Adélaïde Le Senécal. Pensioner. First wife of Adam Viszniewski (married 8 February 1873 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris), previously widow of Marie Louis Bigouse (died 1871). She died on 27 October 1886 in Paris. She was originally buried in div. 56, row 8 from div. 3 gr. 8 od. de la Chapelle

Bibliography:

portal Geneanet, https://www.geneanet.org/

Supplementary bibliography:

Archives de Paris, AD Paris 16e, no. 1145, 1886.
Archives de Paris, AM Paris 17e, no. 278, 1896.
Archives de Paris, AD Paris 17e, no. 2832, 1903.
Archives de Paris, AD Paris 9e, no. 945, 1912. (transcribed)