Monument funéraire de Legru et Lhenoret

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Le monument funéraire de Legru et L'Henoret est un monument funéraire remarquable du cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Il est situé sur l'avenue principale (division no 1) tout près du portail principal. L'architecte-sculpteur Marcel Rouillère (1868-1932) avait pour consigne d'éviter les formes et figures traditionnelles de l'art funéraire. La version photographiée par François Antoine Vizzavona (1876-1961) comporte un médaillon représentant un homme.

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Gaspard Monge's mausoleum

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Père Lachaise station

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Pension Belhomme

The Pension Belhomme was a prison and private clinic during the French Revolution in the Rue de Charonne. Around 1765, the joiner Jacques Belhomme took on the construction of a building for the son of a neighbour, an aristocrat who had been mad since birth. Seeing that running an asylum was more lucrative than joinery, he opened an asylum for lunatics, old people and whoever else rich families wanted to entrust to him. A famous precursor of psychiatry, Philippe Pinel, carried out his first treatments of the insane here. Once the French Revolution had begun, Jacques Belhomme thought that his fortune was assured. Remote from the violent centre of Paris, he had noticeable advantages. In September 1793, when the Reign of Terror began, the députés encouraged the sans-culottes to imprison all suspect individuals: nobles, their wives and children, foreigners, priests, lawyers, the actors of the Comédie Française, rich people in general, in short, all those who had not made clear their allegiance to the Republic. With the prisons of Paris already overflowing, the state requisitioned Belhomme's asylum and then all other private clinics. Belhomme entreated the 12 police chiefs in charge of Paris to send him rich prisoners who would pay high fees to live in his asylum as comfortably as possible. From then on marquises, bankers, journalists, famous actors, old nobles and army officers, along with other disgraced persons who bribed the doctors and police chiefs to be transferred on the pretext of illness, lived cheek by jowl with the mad. Belhomme rented the neighbouring building, the hôtel de Chabanais, to which he linked his own building by a charming garden after the young marquis de Chabanais, a descendant of Colbert, had emigrated with his mother and had his possessions confiscated by the state. Belhomme ended up buying the house to invest the money he had made. It was in this setting that there occurred the romance between Jacques-Marie Rouzet, a deputy to the National Convention, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, widow of the Duc d’Orléans and mother of the future King Louis-Philippe. They married in secret after leaving prison. The scandal of the Pension Belhomme finally erupted in January 1794. Belhomme was arrested for supplying wine to the inmates and was imprisoned in another pension, at Coignard, where the Marquis de Sade was also held. He was found guilty twice and, like the majority of the former inmates of his "clinic", escaped the guillotine only because the Terror ended on 9 Thermidor. Some of the former inmates did not escape, however, proving too well known to pass unnoticed. They included Béatrice de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de Gramont, sister of Louis XV's famous minister; the duchess of Le Châtelet, daughter-in-law of a famous mistress of Voltaire, the fermier général Magon de La Balue, guillotined with his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers and cousins; and the lawyer Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet, despite his denunciation of the monarchy, for which he had spent a year in the Bastille under the ancien regime. The hôtel de Chabanais was razed in 1953, as was the maison Belhomme in 1973.

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Exposé au salon des artistes français en 1909, Rouillère a reçu une mention honorable.

Les familles Lhenoret et Legru

Deux sœurs, artistes, reposent dans ce monument :

Marguerite Louise Lhenoret, dite Marguerite Lynnès, pensionnaire de la Comédie-Française, née le 25 novembre 1855 à Lyon 3e, décédée le 8 février 1911 à Paris 8e. Antoinette Marie Lhenoret, connue sous le nom de Louis Urgel, compositrice, professeur de musique, née le 25 septembre 1857 à Lyon 3e, décédée le 15 août 1942 à Paris 7e. Elle épouse Hector-Louis-Paul Legru le 27 août 1881 à Paris 10e. Remarque : Antoinette-Marie Lhenoret avait débuté avec sa sœur une carrière de comédienne aux Menus-Plaisirs en 1878-79. Elles sont les filles de Jules-Théodore Lhenoret, né vers 1824 et Marie-Louise Tabary (1835-1911). La mort et les obsèques sont relatées par la presse : Mort de Mme Hector Legru, née Lhenoret, connue sous le nom de Louis Urgel, « Comoedia » 22 août 1942 Les obsèques de Mlle Lynnès au Père Lachaise « Comoedia » 11 février 1911. On apprend que sa mère, Marie-Louise Tabary, l'a précédée de quelques semaines.

Marie-Louise Tabary, (1835-1911), née le 25 mars 1835 à Clermont-Ferrand, décédée le 20 janvier 1911 à Paris 8e. Elle est la fille de Louis Tabary et Louise Quayne, mariés le 22 février 1832 à Clermont-Ferrand. Elle est la petite-fille de Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tabary, officier d’infanterie, capitaine-adjudant-major de place du château de Vincennes, né le 15 mai 1757 à Lille, décédé le 16 octobre 1839, à Clermont-Ferrand et de Jeanne-Marie Bioves, mariés le 2 juillet 1793 à Monaco. Elle épouse Jules-Théodore Lhenoret lequel est décédé avant le 27 août 1881, date du mariage Legru / Lhenoret.

Hector-Louis-Paul Legru, industriel, banquier, né le 18 août 1846 à Gouy (Aisne), décédé le 5 juin 1915 Paris 8e. Il est le fils d’Hector-Augustin Legru, né le 22 décembre 1818 à La Buissière, (Pas de Calais), directeur de la ferme de Guizancourt, commune de Gouy, fabricant de sucre et raffineur à Pierrefonds, Mareuil-en-France, et au Port de Saint-Ouen, et Sophie-Azéma Couppé. La mort et les obsèques d’Hector Legru sont relatées par la presse, nécrologie « Le Figaro » 6 juin 1915 et obsèques « Le Figaro » 8 juin 1915. Hector-Louis-Paul Legru a un oncle, Célestin-Joseph Legru qui épouse Marie-Célestine Hennequin le 24 juin 1876 à Paris 10e. Cet oncle est alors veuf de Catherine-Joseph Deleau, il est né le 31 octobre 1829 à Labuissière, (Pas de Calais), fils de défunt Célestin-Joseph Legru et d’Anasthasie Hennebel, domiciliée au Cateau, (Nord). Les Legru sont originaires de Labuissière, (Bruay-la-Buissière, Pas-de-Calais), plusieurs membres de cette famille sont fabricants de sucre, certains deviennent très fortunés, comme Hector-Augustin Legru, le beau-père d’Antoinette-Marie Lhenoret. Avant la Révolution, les Legru étaient les meuniers de Pénin (Pas-de-Calais). La concession date de 1905, d'autres personnes reposent dans ce monument.