Champs-Bruley cemetery

The cemetery in 2010.

The Champs Bruley cemetery is a municipal cemetery located in Besançon (France) nearly Chaprais district. Opened in 1793 and still active, it is the oldest emplacement of this type managed by the city.[1] Executed for all inhabitants, he's quickly rejected by a society still predominantly Catholic especially because of its topography, isolation, and absence of church ; he will be delegated to the Lutheran community who rebirth after Revolution but ostracized, de facto and officially in 1824.[2] The cemetery became the space of parish burials by obligation until the neutrality applied in 1881, a lot of believers are buried by tradition during the nineteenth and twentieth century. It's during this time when diversity appeared, who give a profane aspect of Champs Bruley.

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  1. ↑ (in French) Une nécropole romantique : le cimetière des Chaprais à Besançon, Anne-Lise Thierry, pages 15, 16, et 17.
  2. ↑ (in French) History of the cemetery in the official website of the Protestant church of Besançon (2018).


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