Tombstone of the Sosnowski and Tavant families, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2024
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Tombstone of the Sosnowski and Tavant families, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2018
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ID: NGR-018988-P/189363

Tombstone of the Sosnowski and Tavant families

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-018988-P/189363

Tombstone of the Sosnowski and Tavant families

Paris | France

On a low plinth, a flat, lightly gabled slab. Inscriptions: on full width slab (1), on slab below in left (2) and right (3) columns.

Inscription:

1. GEORGES FÉLIX TAVANT / LIEUTENAT D’ÉTAT MAJOR / 18[3,5?]2 – 1875 / ---- / ADOLPHE TAVANT / ARCHITECTE / 1827 – 187[5] / ---- / MAURICE KARWOWSKI / 1875 – 1876 / ---- / MADELEINE DÉSIRÉE FERRAND / LEUR MÈRE, ÉPOUSE ET GRANDMERE / 1830 – 1901 //.
2. DOCTEUR HELENE / SOSNOWSKA / 1864 – 1942 //.
3. CASIMIR / SOSNOWSKI / 1857 – 1942 //.

Time of construction:

1875

Tombstone location:

Sector number 36 Tomb number 91

Dimensions:

40 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

height: front: 20 cm, rear 40 cm

Materials:

limestone

Additional information:

Conc. no: 2415-1875.

Location: div. 36, row 3 ch. la Guérite (div. 32), gr. 40 from ch. Talleyrand (gr. 14 to the left of the staircase).

Georges Maurice Karwowski (Maurice Georges André Karwowski), born 1875 in Paris, died May 1876 at the age of 7 months (ADep. Seine-et-Marne, AD Château-Landon No 52 of 8 May 1876). Son of Stanislas Victoire Thadée Karwowski and Marie Marguerite Tavant. Buried on 24 April 1886 (annual number 2291), transferred from Château-Landon (Seine-et-Marne).

Marie Tavant, widow of Karwowski, born 1854, died 23 June 1930 in Paris 17th arrondissement (death certificate no. 1349). Buried on 25 June 1930, concession no. 2415 [s] CC 1875, annual no. 3175.

Marie Marguerite Tavant, widow of Karwowski, born 30 May 1854 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, died 23 June 1930 in Paris at her place of residence rue Desrenaudes 38, without profession, daughter of Adolphe Tavant and Madeleine Désirée Ferrand (AdP AD Paris 17e no. 1349 of 1930). Wife of Stanislas Valentin Thadé Karwowski, d. 30 October 1910 in Paris, chef de bureau à la Chambre Syndicale des Agents de Change, son of Jean Joachim Karwowski and Léocadie Rudnicka (AdP AD Paris 7e no. 1721, 1910), buried in Montmartre Cemetery.