Denis Bouquin and Claire Pichard (2024)
Accompagner les morts : l’activité de fossoyeur de la Révolution à l’Empire à Reims
ANTHROPOLOGICA ET PRAEHISTORICA, 133:x-xx.
A person who acts behind the scenes of funerals, the gravedigger generally suffers from a bad image. Although his role is essential
to the proper conduct of funeral practices, his missions and status are poorly known. The municipal and community archives of the
city of Reims offer the opportunity to outline the activity of the gravedigger during the post-revolutionary period. Although the
available bundles only allow us to understand the activity of the gravediggers over a short period of time, the information they
provide constitutes the first milestones of a more global development of a «history of gravediggers».
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Gravedigger; job; death; burial practices.
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