Chapel of the Komar family and of Teresa Jaszewska and Mikołaj Tyszkiewicz, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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ID: NGR-019346-P/194112

Chapel of the Komar family and of Teresa Jaszewska and Mikolaj Tyszkiewicz

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-019346-P/194112

Chapel of the Komar family and of Teresa Jaszewska and Mikolaj Tyszkiewicz

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

A classicist chapel with a distinctive faceted base, a gable roof with acroterions on the corners with relief floral motifs, the gable topped with a small base with relief floral motifs on which may have originally been a cross, in the tympanum a coat of arms surrounded on two sides by motifs of grape vines and poppy heads, the entrance is embellished with a multi-cornered panel above which is a faceted panel with an inscription, the door is made of tin and cast-iron, the upper part is openwork with motifs of a meander and stylised crosses with flowers on their arms, on the sides there are buttons, inside there is an altar supported on columns with capitals, on the side walls there are round windows in which a cross is inscribed.

Coat of arms: in the red field (sash) three beams from top to bottom shorter. Above the shield a crown of nine pearls (one damaged), in the jewel a pearl (Korczak altered - of the Mosquito family). On either side of the shield leaves of vine and poppy heads.

Inscriptions: above the entrance to the chapel, in a faceted panel (1); above the altarpiece - on three plaques side by side (2); on a marble tablet standing on the altarpiece (3); on a marble stele, standing inside the chapel, against the right wall at the entrance, topped by an urn on a pedestal - in the tympanum a broken basilica (4); inside, on the left wall, in two columns (5); on the right wall (6); on a separate panel (7); on the arms of the free-standing cross (8); again on the left wall (9); on the right wall by the window (10); on the wall under the altar (11); and on a paper card fixed from the inside on the entrance door (12).

Inscription:

1. STANISLAO D. KOMAR, / POLONO. / OPTIMO CIVI, CONJUGI, PATRI. //.
2. NICOLAS / COMTE TYSZKIEWICZ, / CHAMBELLAN / DE S.M. L’EMPÈREUR / DE RUSSIE, / DÉCÉDÉ À VARSOVIE / LE 31 JUILLET 1880. / DANS SA 52ÈME ANNÉE. / ---- / SOUVENEZ VOUS DE LUI. / VOUS TOUS / QUI FÛTES SES AMIS. / ---- / PELAGIE DE KOMAR. / NÉE MOSTOWKA. / NÉE A LAMOTTE BEUVRON / LE 10 OCTOBRE 1812, / MORTE À ENGHIEN / LE 12 SEPTEMBRE 1854. / ---- / EUGENIE PORRE / EN RELIGION / SOEUR MARIE ROSELYNE / 1ER JANVIER 1977 / STANISLAS KOMAR, / NÉ A CRACOVIE EN 17[..] / DÉCÉDÉ À PARIS LE 18 SEPRE 1832 / ---- / DANS LA TOMBE AVEC LUI / MON COEUR [...] / ---- / MARTHE LIBAUDIERE / EN RELIGION / SOEUR MARTHE DE JESUS / 25 MARS 1972 / 84 ANS //.
3. MME MARCEL LESCOT / NÉE SALEUR / EN RELIGION / MÈRE MARIE-LUCE / 1874 - 1953 //.
4. THÉRÈSE JASZOWSKA / NÉE ORTOWSKA / DÉCÉDÉE LE / ---- / BIENHEUREUX / CEUX QUI ONT LE COEUR PUR / CAR ILS VERRONT DIEU //.
5. MARIE LOUISE GIRODET / 10 JUILLET 1976 / LINDA MARY MURPHY / DÉCÉDÉE À PARIS / LE 28 AVRIL 1887, / À L’ÂGE DE 17 ANS / BIENHEUREUX LES COEURS PURS / CAR ILS VERRONT DIEU. //.
6. MARIE-LOUISE GELIS / EN RELIGION / SOEUR MARIE AMELIE / 25 JANVIER 1974 //.
7. À MA SOEUR / THÉRÈSE JASZOWSKA / NÉE ORTOWSKA / DÉCÉDÉE LE / Bienheureux ceux qui ont le coeur pur / car ils verront Dieu //.
8. LINDA MURPHY AGED 17 / DIED 28TH APRIL 1882 //.
9. MARIE THÉRÈSE TYTGAT / EN RELIGION / SOEUR MARIE / NOËL 8 AOÛT 1978 //.
10. CHARLES VICTURNIEN / DE CHOISEUL / NÉ À PARIS LE 24 FÉVRIER 1873 / MORT LE 26 FÉVRIER / l[...] //.
11. [...] EN RELIGION SOEUR MARIE [...] //.
12. Religieuses / Assomption //.

Tombstone location:

Sector number 55 Tomb number 189

Dimensions:

400 x 240 x 240 cm

Additional dimensions:

gules: 2 x 5 cm, 2 x 3 cm, height: approx. 400 cm, crest: 24 cm, crest with jewel: 50 cm

Materials:

marble, limestone, cast iron, sheet

Additional Information about materials:

white marble (facade, altarpiece, interior of chapel), sheet metal (doors), limestone (exterior walls), cast iron (doors)

Ceator's signature:

GREBAN ENTR //.

Creator:

Greban Entr (zakład kamieniarski; Paryż)

Additional information:

concession no: Concession a perpétuité 4 570

perpetual concession purchased for Teresa Jaszewska née Orlowska

for several decades the chapel has been in the care of the Sisters of the Congregation of the Virgin Mary in Paris, and the Congregation may even own the concession

location: div. 55, row 1 av. de la Chapelle, gr. 3 ch. Puisard

Märthe Libandiere, buried on 29 March 1972, aged 84 years

Luce Lescot, née Saleur, wife of Samuel Marcel Lescot, estate agent residing at the château du Logis in the commune of Saint-Bohaire. She died at the age of 79, living in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. She was buried on 19 May 1953 (annual number 698, death certificate no. 1001).

Marie Louise Girodet, buried on 16 July 1976, aged 66 years

Belinda Mary Murphy, born in Dublin, daughter of John Murphy and Belinda (née Creagh). She died on 28 April 1887 in Paris, at the Convent of the Assumption (Couvent de l'Assomption), 17 rue de l'Assomption, aged 17 years and 11 months. She was buried on 30 April 1887.

Marie Louise Gelis, buried on 30 January 1974, aged 74

Thérèse Tygat (religious name: Sr Marie Noël), buried on 11 August 1978.

Charles Victurnien de Choiseul-Praslin, born in Paris in February 1873, son of Eugène Antoine Horace Count de Choiseul-Praslin, deputy of the National Assembly, and Béatrix Jeanne Marie Joséphine de Beauvau, an MP. He died on 27 February 1873 in Paris at the age of two days. He was buried on 28 February 1873.

Also buried in the tomb are: