Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska

Père-Lachaise Cemetery
ID: NGR-019341-P/194105

Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska

On the plinth a stepped thick gabled light slab, at the head two stepped bases on a square plan, on which a tall column on a base, surmounted by a bust of a woman. An inscription on the column.

Inscription:

YSABELLE / WIFE OF MARTIN ZBOROWSKI, / OF NEW JERSEY / AND DAUGHTER / OF PEYTON RANDOLPH KEY. / OF KENTUCKI / DIED AT PARIS JUNE 30. 1873. / ---- / CHARLES / WILKINSON. / DÉCÉDÉ À PARIS / LE 6 NOVEMBRE 1896. / ---- //.
 

Tombstone location:

Sector number 54 Tomb number 184

Dimensions:

346 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

height: front: 44 cm, back: 346 cm, column: 169 cm, bust: 77 cm

Materials:

coloured magmatic rocks (granite, syenite and others), marble

Additional Information about materials:

white marble (bust, column, column base), polished granite

Additional information:

concession no: CONCESSION À PERPÉTUITÉ NO 711. ANNÉE 1873

the perpetual concession was purchased on 21 July 1873 by Martin Zborowski, residing at 243 boulevard Saint-Germain

location: div. 54, row 3 av. de la Chapelle, gr. 16 av. des Ailantes

the bust of the woman in marble is the likeness of Ysabelle Zborowska

Ysabelle Zborowska, née Key (c. 1827-1873), born in Kentucky, United States, daughter of Peyton Randolph Key and Marion Sommerville. Second wife of Martin Zborowski (married 1867). She lived in Paris at 243 boulevard Saint-Germain, and died at her place of residence on 30 June 1873. She was buried on 19 August 1873 in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery (annual number 598), having been transferred from the Anglican Church. Her father, Peyton Randolph Key, died on 8 March 1873 at Como Plantation, Arkansas, aged 73. Martin Zborowski (1815-1878), her husband, died on 6 December 1878 in Morrisania. He had four children with his first wife Anna Elliot Emma Morris (1821-1864), including a daughter Anna Elliott Zborowska (born 29 July 1853 in New York), who lived with her father in Paris, and a son Elliot Zborowski. Anna Elliott Zborowska married, on 17 September 1873, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Charles François Count de Montsaulnin (b. 5 June 1836, Paris), possessor, Mayor of Tenfron (Cher), member of the General Council of Cher, son of Ernest Paul Count de Montsaulnin and Marie Henriette Françoise de Paule Demaistre.

The Zborowski family belonged, according to tradition, to the descendants of Polish émigrés from the 17th century, settled in New Amsterdam - New York. Significant areas of that city belonged to members of the family. The last two members of the family died in car races at the beginning of the 20th century. The family, apart from their surname, had no connections with Poland and the Poles

Bibliography:

  • Henry Jouin, „La sculpture dans les cimetières de Paris”, „Revue de l’art français ancien et moderne” 13, 1897, s. 225
  • „La sculpture dans les cimetières de Paris”, 1878, s. 153
  • portal Geneanet, https://www.geneanet.org/
  • Rutgers Leroy J., „Inscriptions on Tombstones in France. 251 Inscriptions on the Tombstones of Americans Buried in Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France”, Paryż

Supplementary bibliography:

Lipkowski, pp. 206, 265
Archives de Paris, AD Paris 7e, no. 814, 1873.
Archives de Paris, AM Paris 7e, no. 588, 1873.
"Pennsilvania Magazine of History and Biography", Philadelphia 1919, vol. XLIII

Date of documentation:

2025

Publication:

06.10.2025

Last updated:

06.10.2025

Author of the documentation sheet:

prof. Sławomir Górzyński
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Tombstone with stepped plinth and slightly sloping, gabled slab. At the head, two square bases support a tall column with a bust of a woman. An inscription is visible on the column. Photo showing Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
Tombstone with stepped plinth and sloping, gabled slab. At the head, two square bases support a tall column with a bust of a woman. An inscription can be seen on the column. Photo showing Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of Charles Wilkinson and Ysabelle Zborowska, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.

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