Chartreuse Cemetery

Aquarelle de Bordes
Cimetière de la Chartreuse. XIXe
Fi XIV-C-78 rec. 125.
(c) Archives Municipales de Bordeaux. B. Rakotomanga

Created in 1791, the cemetery was laid out as from 1804 in the vast field of the former Carthesian convent ; the baroque gateway of which is now the northern side entrance. It contains a wide variety of funeral monuments dating from the 19th and 20th centuries (neoclassic pyramids, neo-gothic chapels, sculpted groups…). Several famous people are buried there, such as Flora Tristan, writer, forerunner of feminism and grand-mother of the painter Paul Gauguin. A small Roman-style temple houses the heart of General Jean-Victor Moreau, enemy of the emperor Napoleon I.
A cenotaph serves as a reminder that Francisco Goya, who died in Bordeaux in 1828, is also buried there.