{"id":40,"date":"2007-11-14T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T03:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2007-11-14T00:10:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T03:10:26","slug":"tombstones-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"033. tombstones in french"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=28\">Irish counterparts<\/a>, French Catholics could also be buried in Recoleta Cemetery. There are even fewer of these tombstones left than the English-language ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plaque below reads: &#8220;<em>A Paul Ribeaumont, ses admirateurs et ses amis, 1851&#8212;1856<\/em>&#8221; (To Paul Ribeaumont, [from] his admirers &amp; friends, 1851&#8212;1856). Obviously it was given on the fifth anniversary of his death. The tomb has been chopped off by another family to the right who wanted a little extra space. No one seems to mind:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Paul Ribeaumont, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711B69.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Ribeaumont, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tombstone below is simple &amp; lacks decoration like some of the Irish ones. The text reads, &#8220;<em>Ici r\u00e9pos\u00e9 Alphonse Hupp\u00e9, N\u00e9 le 3 7bre 1820, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 15 Aout 1858 \/ Priez pour lui<\/em>&#8221; (Here lies Alphonse Hupp\u00e9, born 03 Sept 1820, died 15 Aug 1858 \/ Pray for him). Oddly enough, the ground in front of the tombstone has been used at different times to grow green bell peppers by someone with a bizarre sense of humor. At the time of this post, nothing was being harvested:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Alphonse Hupp\u00e9, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711B66.jpg\" alt=\"Alphonse Hupp\u00e9, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like their Irish counterparts, French Catholics could also be buried in Recoleta Cemetery. There are even fewer of these tombstones left than the English-language ones.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=40\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">033. tombstones in french<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}