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ID: NGR-019160-P/193269

Tombstone of Helena Potocka

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery
ID: NGR-019160-P/193269

Tombstone of Helena Potocka

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

A low stele terminating in a semicircle, buried in the ground. On the stele an inscription.

Inscription:

Comtesse POTOCKI / décédée le 31 octobre 1815. //.
 

Related persons:

Helena Potocka

Tombstone location:

Sector number 45 Tomb number 119

Additional information:

location: div. 45, row 2 (reconstructed copy)

According to the Books of the Buried: Hélène Massalska, née Potoski [s], aged 52, resident in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, buried on 2 November 1815 in temporary concession (annual no. 31632, row to the right of Marshal Ney, top, 26th place in row 1). The burial was transferred on 21 March 1840 to the fosse commune on the boulevard Ménilmontant (Burial Book no. 3163 of 1815, AP 1815-1816, CPL_RJ18041818_01, sheet 163, view 12). After about twenty years the gravestone collapsed and the ashes were moved to the fosse commune

the gravestone was probably not walled in

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

grave closed

Bibliography:

  • Roger, „Le Champ du repos, ou le Cimetière Mont-Louis, dit du Père Delachaise”, Paryż, 1816), s. 95, 104

Keywords:

stele, gravestone monument

Date of documentation:

2025

Publication:

28.08.2025

Last updated:

28.08.2025

Author of the documentation sheet:

prof. Sławomir Górzyński
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