Cimetière de Bouère, Historical cemetery in Bouère, France.
Cimetière de Bouère is a burial ground from the late 18th century with four distinct sections organized by maintained yew trees and boxwood hedges. The pathways run in a clear pattern throughout the entire site.
Bouère had two older burial grounds, one beside the church for children and one called La Madeleine. In 1778 the parish priest René-Robert Bourdet created the present cemetery, blessed around 1780 by François-Gaspard de Jouffroy de Gonsans, Bishop of Le Mans. It was inscribed as a monument historique in 2005.
The small oratory at the southwest corner was built in 1810, not a chapel, and is the one structure inside the cemetery. The graves themselves record local memory: René-Robert Bourdet, the priest who founded the cemetery and sat as a deputy in the 1789 Estates General, is buried here, as is the actor Robert Hirsch, interred in 2017.
The cemetery lies on a flat lawn in Bouère, Mayenne, with rows of graves running from the lower left toward the centre. A trimmed hedge separates the main burial area from further rows of low crosses and headstones among clipped hedges. Two tall, dense trees shaped like rounded cones stand to the right of the graves.
Among those buried here are Marin-Pierre Gaullier, a Chouan leader, and his son Pierre, as well as the actor Robert Hirsch, interred in 2017. The cemetery also holds the grave of René-Robert Bourdet, the priest who founded it and sat as a deputy in the Estates-General of 1789.
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