Places to see in ( Sete - France ) Le Cimetiere Marin

Places to see in ( Sete - France ) Le Cimetiere Marin

The marine cemetery of Sète , or Saint-Charles cemetery , is a marine cemetery , located in the city of Sète , overlooking the Mediterranean. The cemetery was created around 1680 to bury the first workers employed in the construction of the Saint-Louis mole. The cemetery first bore the name of St. Charles Cemetery and was called the Marine Cemetery on August 7 , 1945.

Around 1680 the cemetery Saint Charles was created to receive the first dead workers on the construction site of the mole Saint-Louis. It is indicative of the diversity of the settlements of the city during the following centuries and has been enlarged by successive plots, one of them being reserved for the Protestant community whose role has been essential in the development of the port. in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is also called "cemetery of the rich", in opposition to "cemetery of the poor" located in front of the pond of Thau (where George Brassens rests).

Several burials recall the maritime vocation of the city, such as that of the missing pilots by rescuing a ship in distress, where still that of the young sailor Eugene Herber killed in Beijing in 1900. Others testify to the reputation of personalities Sétoises remarkable as the minister Mario Roustan, the man of theater Jean Vilar ... the jouster Vincent Cianni whose carved epitaph reveals the passionate attachment which the whole population of "the singular island" to the jousting, the filmmaker Henri Colpi ... Paul Valéry, born in Sète in 1871 rests in the tomb of his grandfather Giulo Grassi.

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