To: Jessarah
Agreed. However if the wrong body is in the Jones crypt it could very well be a Frenchman.
35 posted on
04/18/2006 10:44:06 AM PDT by
Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
It may be another foreign Protestant. A number of the known burials were those of officers of the embassy's of Protestant states. For instance one grave that was explored was determined to be that of a Mr. Hay the Secretary of the British Embassy who had died at about the same time as Jones. The reason for these interments was that this was the 'king's burial ground' and not sanctified. Of course in 18th century France all church burying grounds were sanctified only for Catholics aside from a handful of Huguenot churches. No Protestant could be buried in sanctified ground. So the king who employed lots of Protestants as officers in his army and elsewhere as well as having diplomatic relations with a number Protestant states pretty much had to have a respectable place where those who died on his service or in their country's service could be buried. The fact that Jones was no longer on French service but that he was interred in this field shows the regard he was still held by some at the Court of the Bourbons.
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Regardless, it's an impressive tomb.
I'd like to think the folks that went over there did the right thing and didn't grab the first Abby Normal they came across..
42 posted on
04/18/2006 11:34:51 AM PDT by
Experiment 6-2-6
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