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Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery
ID: NGR-019351-P/194132

Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

On pedestal a light-roofed slab, at head on rocks a stone cross in the shape of untreated knotted logs; iron bar fence. Inscriptions on the slab in two columns: left (1) and right (2).

Inscription:

1. JULES / [...] COSTE / DECEDE / LE 18[...] 18[.]8 / À L’ÂGE DE [..] ANS / ---- / MME VVE COSTE / NÉE LOUISE [...] / JOSÉPHINE ARLAUD / DÉCÉDÉE / LE 17 JANVIER / 1[..]2 / À L’ÂGE DE 65 ANS / ---- //.
2. ROBERT / CHMIELEWSKI. / DÉCÉDÉ / LE [...] JANVIER 1887. / À L’ÂGE DE [.]5 ANS. / ---- / MME VVE A.TOURON / NÉE THÉRÈSE / CHMIELEWSKA / 18[..] - 1919. / ---- / ALBERT TOURON. / 1863 - 1936. / ---- / DENYSE SENLIS / NÉE TOURON / 1903 - 1949 //.

 

Related persons:

Robert Chmielewski
Teresa Chmielewska

Tombstone location:

Sector number 57 Tomb number 194

Dimensions:

257 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

height: front: 42 cm, rear: 257 cm, cross: 123 cm

Materials:

limestone, cast iron

Additional Information about materials:

cast iron (fencing)

Additional information:

concession no: C. À P. No 188[8,3?] - 1877

location: div. 57, gr. 2 av. Neigre, gr. 20 av. Latérale du Nord

Albert Eugène Touron, born on 29 June 1863 in Charroux, engineer, lived in Paris at 7 rue Valette, son of Alexandre Touron and Estelle Devoy; husband of Therese Margaret Chmielewska

State of preservation:

cavities

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

one transverse arm of the cross is missing in 2018

the last letter 'I' in the inscription of Teresa Chmielewska's name has been reworded as 'A'

Supplementary bibliography:

Archives de Paris, AM Paris 5e, no. 1173, 1912.

Keywords:

cross (on a plinth), cross stylized as a tree trunk / made of tree beams, gravestone, gravestone monument, cross on the rocks

Date of documentation:

2025

Publication:

09.10.2025

Last updated:

09.10.2025

Author of the documentation sheet:

prof. Sławomir Górzyński
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Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families with a stone cross resembling unworked logs with knots on a rock base. Surrounded by cast iron bars, inscriptions on the slab in two columns. Photo showing Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families with a stone cross resembling unworked logs with knots, surrounded by cast iron bars. Inscriptions in two columns on the slab. Photo showing Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
Photo showing Tombstone of the Chmielewski, Cost and Touron families

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