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Monument Petitjean du cimetière de Neuvelle-lès-Champlitte

Champlitte, Haute-Saône, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Monument, y compris les grilles extérieures (cad. ZB 41) : inscription par arrêté du 30 juillet 1997
Protection dates
1997/07/30 : inscrit MH
Type
monument funéraire
Main period of construction
3e quart 19e siècle
Dates
1872
Architect or builder
METZ A. de (architecte), LALANNE (architecte)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Champlitte
Département
Haute-Saône
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
47.58431, 5.55292
Mérimée reference
PA70000015

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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1842 map "69. Haute-Saone. Vesoul (Franche-Comte)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Monument édifié en 1872 par les architectes parisiens A. de Metz et Lalanne, pour Alexandre Petitjean, natif de Neuvelle-lès-Champlitte et ayant fait fortune dans la banque à Paris. Entouré d'une grille en fonte, l'ensemble offre une composition pyramidale à trois niveaux figurant un socle, un tombeau et un groupe sculpté qui représente quatre femmes drapées portant le corps du défunt.

English translation

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Monument erected in 1872 by the Parisian architects A. de Metz and Lalanne, for Alexandre Petitjean, native of Neuvelle-lès-Champlitte and having made a fortune in banking in Paris. Surrounded by a cast iron fence, the whole offers a pyramidal composition in three levels representing a base, a tomb and a sculpted group which represents four draped women bearing the body of the deceased.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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