![]() With the encouragement of the new proprietor, the Cemetery rapidly became a place of pilgrimage. He had managed to live quietly through the Terror, without being troubled. A former avocat of the Parlement de Paris, he had been active in local politics in the early part of the Revolution, indeed had been a member of the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, but had withdrawn from public life after the abolition of the monarchy. ![]() Louis Hastier characterises him as one of those men for whom the Revolution had gone too far. He has sometimes been accused of being a charlatan and profiteer, but his motivation was almost certainly genuine. ![]() ![]() Subsequently, on 3rd June 1802 the land was bought from Jacob's creditors by the lawyer Pierre-Louis-Olivier Descloseaux (1732-1816), who since 1769 had owned the property immediately adjacent at no.48 rue d'Anjou.ĭescloseaux took upon himself the role of custodian of the royal remains, and was to be a pivotal figure in the establishment of the Madeleine as a focus of Royalist fervour. Two years later, on 25th June 1796, the site was sold as a bien national to a carpenter ("marchand-ébéniste") called Isaac Jacob neighbours complained that he carried out a great deal of excavation in defiance of the ten year moratorium. The Madeleine Cemetery was formally closed on 24th March 1794.
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