Tombstone of Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-019340-P/194100

Tombstone of Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Original gravestone: on a high tombstone made of a single block (?), at the head a cubic pedestal on a square plan, on it a stepped pedestal in the shape of a truncated obelisk with chamfered top corners, on it a bust of Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz in a general's uniform, the gravestone surrounded by a fence on three sides in front of the fence, on the sides two stone cannon barrels upright, an inscription on the pedestal under the sculpture.

Present: Solid stone tomb on a pedestal with a stepped base, at the top there is an oblique cut on the side with a coat of arms, at the top there is a small cross engraved on the top of the tomb; in front of the tomb there are two upright stone sculptures of cannon barrels, traces of a fence.

Coat of arms on the front of the tomb: In the field of the shield a crescent with a star between the horns, on the shield a crown with nine batons, in the jewel, on a peacock's tail a crescent with a star between the horns (Leliwa hr. Tyszkiewiczów).

Inscriptions on the top of the tomb: top (1) and bottom (2).

Inscription:

1. + / CI-GISAIT / THADÉE CTE TYSKIEWICZ / GÉNÉRAL ET SÉNATEUR POLONAIS / CHEF DE LA GARDE D’HONNEUR DE NAPOLEON / 1774 - 1852 / ---- //.
2. EN REMPLISSANT SES DERNIÉRES VOLONTÉS / LES DESCENDANTS DU GÉNÉRAL / TRANSPORTÈRENT SA DÉPOUILLE EN POLOGNE / EN 1939 //.

Related persons:

Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz

Tombstone location:

Sector number 54 Tomb number 183

Dimensions:

102 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

Height: front: 74 cm, back: 45-58 cm, cannons: 102 cm, crest: 22 cm

Materials:

limestone, cast iron, copper alloy (bronze, brass or bronze alloy)

Additional Information about materials:

bronze (bust), cast iron (fence)

Creator:

Władysław Oleszczyński (rzeźbiarz; Polska, Włochy, Francja)(preview)

Additional information:

Licence no: 241P 1852

concession no. established on the basis of a permit for restoration work issued on 1 July 2009.

concession under the protection of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Paris and TOZ (2007)

location: div. 54, row 2 ch. Mont-Louis, gr. 3 av. de la Chapelle

In 1894, the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow assumed 'also the duty of new care for the grave of General Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz in the Père Lachaise cemetery, once a great benefactor of the Library'.

The original text of the inscription translated: "Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz, jenerał, senator, 1774-1852, fought in Lithuania under Jasinski, in Prussia under Napoleon, in Gaul and in Russia under Poniatowski, 3 times an exile".

original text of the inscription in the original: "Thedée Comte TYSZKIEWICZ / Général et Sénateur Polonais / il Combattit / en Lithuanie sous Jasiński / en Prusse sous Napoléon / en Galicie et en Russie / sous Poniatowski. / Troi fois proscrit / Sur les champ de bataille / comme pendant le Paix, / il consacra / son existence entière a sa Patrie / Né en 1774, mort le 12 avril 1852 / après 21 ans d'exil / Ses enfants et ses compatriotes proscrits / érigent ce monument a sa mémoire. / De Profundis. //."

Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz's ashes were brought to Poland in 1939 and deposited in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (quaternary 25 row 1) in a grave where, among others, his wife Józefa, née hr. Sołłohub, is buried. The tombstone bears the following inscription: "The grave of General Tyszkiewicz / the late / Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz / jenerał-senator / 1774 - 1852 / Fought in Lithuania under Jasieńskie / in Prussia under Napoleon / in Galicia and Rossia under Poniatowski / Thrice an exile / lived his whole life in and out of the country / in war and peace / to his Homeland. //."

Together with the transfer of the remains to Warsaw, the bust was also transported

State of preservation:

unmaintained fence

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

originally fenced with a metal fence

Renovation of the tomb in 2010, carried out by TOZ with funding from ROPWiM

Bibliography:

Ferdynand Hoesick, Paryż, Warszawa bd., s. 131
„La sculpture dans les cimetières de Paris”, 1878, s. 204
„Słownik artystów polskich”, t. VI, s. 254
H. Jouin, „Monuments ou statues érigés par l'État, par la Ville, ou à l'aide de souscription et sépultures historiques entretenues par par la Ville dans les cimetières de Paris”, „Inventaire des richesses d'art de la France ”, 1902, s. 258
„Russkij Nekropol”, 1915, s. 89-90
Tyszkiewicz Eustachy, „Groby rodziny Tyszkiewiczów”, Warszawa 1873, s. 97