Lieu d'inhumation de Georges Clemenceau

English translation

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History

The two tombs of Georges Clemenceau and his father Paul-Benjamin Clemenceau are dug into a rocky escarpment on a mid-slope, at the foot of the cedar planted in 1848. In accordance with Clemenceau's wishes, the monument is reduced to a space delimited by a low railing, without a burial slab or inscription. Above the two tombs rises the stele representing Minerva. She is represented in bas-relief, dressed in a long pleated tunic and wearing her crested helmet, leaning on her lance whose point is driven into the ground. Georges Clemenceau was born on 28 September 1841 at Mouilleron-Saint-Germain in the family house. During his lifetime, Clemenceau did not often live at the Colombier, where he spent part of the summer as a child, whereas his father, Dr. Paul-Benjamin Clemenceau, had opened a medical practice in Nantes in 1843. After the war, when he retires, Clemenceau rents the house of Belesbat at Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard where he resides most often and which was to be his true home, more than the Colombier or the castle of l'Aubraye at Féole. Nevertheless, it is alongside his father that Clemenceau wishes to be buried as his will of 28 March 1929 stipulates. Died on 24 November 1929, Georges Clemenceau is buried on 24 November near the Colombier, on the hillside overlooking the valley of the Lay, at the foot of the cedar planted in 1848 by his father. Above the two tombs stands a stele representing Minerva victorious and watching over Peace, work of the sculptor Sicard. The land had been given to the commune of Mouchamps in 1922.