Tombstone of the Skarbek family and Guillaume Colon, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of the Skarbek family and Guillaume Colon

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-019336-P/194090

Tombstone of the Skarbek family and Guillaume Colon

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Gravestone 2009: On the base of a stepped light-angled tumulus with a flat cap projecting beyond the light of the walls, on it, at the headrest on a base with quarter-cut corners, a tall cross.

Tombstone in 2018: On a pedestal a stepped low, light-sided tumulus with a cap projecting beyond its light, on it at the head on a high base with quarter-cut corners, a tall cross, traces of a fence.

Coat of arms: in a field of red (sash) a silver glove (depicted as four conjoined rhombuses), above the shield a crown of nine pearls (count's) above it a glove as on the shield placed loosely (Abdank).

Inscriptions noted in 1988: on a slab (1) and on a grey granite plaque applied to the base of the cross (2).

New inscriptions on the rebuilt gravestone: on the base of the cross (3), on the face of the slab in two columns - left (4) and right (5) and on the left side of the tumulus (6).

Inscription:

1. ICI REPOSE / GUILLAUME COLON / DÉCÉDÉ LE 12 MARS 1845 / A L’ÂGE DE [.]9 ANS. / REGRETS PROFONDS //.
2. JOSEPH PAUL 1879-1961 / ET SON EPOUSE / CHARLOTTE 1887-1960 / SKARBEK //.
3. FAMILLE SKARBEK //.
4. CHARLOTTE SKARBEK / NÉE LAMBERT / 1887-1960 //.
5. JOSEPH PAUL / SKARBEK / 1879 - 1961 //.
6. JEANNE SKARBEK / NÉE DURUPT / 1856 - 1939 //.

Tombstone location:

Sector number 54 Tomb number 179

Dimensions:

233 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

height: front: 64 cm, rear: 233 cm

Materials:

limestone

Additional information:

No concession: CONCESSION À PERPÉTUITÉ No 82.017 BIS or 120 CC-1845

location: div. 54, row 1 ch. de Mont Louis (from div. 53) gr. 47 from div. 56 (from av. de la Chapelle) (8 a du passage)

In the grave of the Colon family were buried the above persons, grandmother, parents and daughter of John Skarbek. Appropriate inscriptions will be engraved on the tombstone in the near future. The above information was included at the request of Jan Skarbek in 2008.

Joseph Alexandre Paul Jules Skarbek (1879-1961), born on 21 November 1879 in Mensignac, son of Joseph Émile Skarbek (1856-1887) and Jeanne Marie Reine Durupt (1856-1939), engineer, photographer, draughtsman, sinologist. He built railway lines in China. Husband of Charlotte Marthe Lambert. Died on 4 December 1961 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Buried on 6 December 1961 at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, transferred from Boulogne

Charlotte Marthe Skarbek, née Lambert (1887-1960), born on 25 February 1887 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, daughter of Alper Joseph Lambert and Marie Ernestine Dorison. Wife of Joseph Alexandre Paul Jules Skarbek. Died on 29 December 1960 in Paris at 8 rue Changarnier. Buried on 31 December 1960.

Jeanne Marie Reine Skarbek, née Durupt (1856-1939), born on 30 October 1856 in Bar-sur-Aube, wife of Joseph Émile Skarbek (1856-1887), whom she married on 8 February 1879 in Périgueux. The marriage produced sons Joseph Alexandre Paul Jules Skarbek and Édouard Henri Skarbek (1882-1915). She died on 12 September 1939. Buried at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery on 24 May 1958, after being transferred from Martagne-au-Perche (annual number 593).

State of preservation:

unmaintained fence

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

inscription (1) written before 1988 did not exist in July 2008.

inscription (2) written after 1990.

in June 2018, it was noted that these inscriptions (2) had been removed and replaced by new ones

in 2010, it was planned, through the efforts and at the expense of Jean Skarbek, to rebuild the tombstone and engrave new inscriptions. On the base of FAMILLE SKARBEK //., on the left side of the slab JOSEPH PAUL 1879-1961 / et son epouse / CHARLOTTE 1887-1960 //.

Bibliography:

Skarbek Jean, „Les tombes des Skarbek en France”, w: „Józef Maciej comte Skarbek 1810-1868. Polonais insurgé exilé en France suivi Supplément à l’ouvrage de 1999 Les Skarbek en France des armoiries Abdak”, Paryż 2013, s. 251-256
Skarbek Jean, „Les Skarbek en France. Mémento historique pour la branche française”, Paryż 1999