Sépulture de Georges Clemenceau, Memorial grave site in Mouchamps, France.

The graves of Georges Clemenceau and his father Paul-Benjamin lie at Le Colombier, on a rocky slope above a bend of the Petit Lay. Each is a simple burial with no slab or inscription, enclosed by a small wrought-iron fence with pointed finials and scrollwork. Above them stands a tall stone stele carved in bas-relief by François Sicard, showing Minerva in a belted, pleated gown and helmet, holding a spear.

Georges Clemenceau died in Paris on 24 November 1929 and was buried the next day at Mouchamps, beside his father Paul-Benjamin, a Nantes doctor interred there since 1897. His will of 18 March 1929 asked for no procession or ceremony of any kind, and in April 1922 the family had given the land to the commune on condition that nothing be built there. Two hundred gendarmes kept the crowd back, yet several hundred local peasants still attended.

The bas-relief of Minerva, carved by Clemenceau's friend François Sicard, stands on a stele above the two graves; the goddess, helmeted and holding a staff, watches over Peace. The graves themselves carry no name and no inscription, as Clemenceau asked in his will of 18 March 1929: "around my grave, nothing but a fence without a name, as for my father".

The two graves and the Minerva stele stand at Le Colombier, on a rocky slope above a bend of the Petit Lay, about 30 km northeast of La Roche-sur-Yon and outside the village cemetery. Access is via a marked path (allée d'accès, also listed); the ground is uneven and the site has no facilities. The graves are bare earth behind low wrought-iron grilles, so look for the stele and the cedar planted in 1848 to locate them.

The coffin rests at an angle due to an underground rock formation beneath the grave. This fact contradicts persistent local legends claiming he was buried standing upright to face the Vosges Mountains to the north.