{"id":4495,"date":"2023-07-01T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2023-07-01T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:58:38","slug":"un-etrange-n-au-cimetiere-communal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/un-etrange-n-au-cimetiere-communal\/communes\/mezieres-en-brenne\/4495\/","title":{"rendered":"Un \u00e9trange \u00ab\u00a0N\u00a0\u00bb au cimeti\u00e8re communal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170120.resized.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4495]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170120.resized-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170120.resized-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170120.resized-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170120.resized.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>Depuis quelques mois, une plaque carr\u00e9e avec un N est appos\u00e9e \u00e0 droite de l\u2019entr\u00e9e du cimeti\u00e8re. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cette lettre, entour\u00e9e d\u2019une couronne de laurier, symbolise Napol\u00e9on 1<sup>er<\/sup>. Serait-il venu ou pass\u00e9 \u00e0 M\u00e9zi\u00e8res-en-Brenne lors de l\u2019une de ses nombreuses campagnes \u00e0 travers l\u2019Europe et au-del\u00e0\u00a0? <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Non, bien entendu\u00a0! Nous le saurions depuis fort longtemps. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Il s\u2019agit simplement de mat\u00e9rialiser la s\u00e9pulture d\u2019Hyppolite Mign\u00e9, l\u2019un des deux millions de soldats mobilis\u00e9s par le petit Caporal pour constituer sa Grande Arm\u00e9e. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">N\u00e9s le 13 d\u00e9cembre 1789 \u00e0 M\u00e9zi\u00e8res quelques mois apr\u00e8s la R\u00e9volution, Hyppolite et son fr\u00e8re jumeau Florent sont les fils de Jean-Baptiste \u2013 perruquier \u2013 et Magdeleine Landon. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Bien que ce nom soit d\u2019origine vend\u00e9enne, la famille semble install\u00e9e dans le bourg depuis un temps certain. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Conscrit (nouvelle recrue) de l\u2019an 1809, Hyppolite int\u00e8gre curieusement le 5<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> bataillon du 51<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> r\u00e9giment de ligne (infanterie) d\u00e8s le 30 avril 1808\u00a0\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 18 ans. A cette \u00e9poque, les \u00e9normes besoins en hommes devaient satisfaire les ambitions napol\u00e9oniennes. Les pr\u00e9fets enr\u00f4laient donc rapidement pour combler les trous qui se creusaient dans les rangs de l\u2019arm\u00e9e. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Son arriv\u00e9e au Corps voit son pr\u00e9nom et son patronyme modifi\u00e9s\u00a0: ils se transforment en Hypolite Minier. L\u2019agent enr\u00f4leur ayant probablement retranscrit phon\u00e9tiquement ce qu\u2019il avait entendu \u2026 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4500\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Napoleon_Grenadier_and_Voltigeur_of_1808_by_Bellange.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4495]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4500 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Napoleon_Grenadier_and_Voltigeur_of_1808_by_Bellange-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Napoleon_Grenadier_and_Voltigeur_of_1808_by_Bellange-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Napoleon_Grenadier_and_Voltigeur_of_1808_by_Bellange-648x1024.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Napoleon_Grenadier_and_Voltigeur_of_1808_by_Bellange-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Napoleon_Grenadier_and_Voltigeur_of_1808_by_Bellange.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grenadier et voltigeur de Napol\u00e9on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A l\u2019image de Napol\u00e9on, toujours press\u00e9, les officiers faisaient \u00e9voluer tout aussi promptement les militaires sous leur commandement. C\u2019est ainsi qu\u2019Hyppolite obtint le grade de caporal le 14 ao\u00fbt, moins de quatre mois apr\u00e8s son incorporation comme fourrier. Venant du mot fourrage, cet emploi consistait \u00e0 g\u00e9rer l\u2019intendance des troupes\u00a0: logement, vivres, gestion des chevaux, \u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nous ignorons si ce Mac\u00e9rien a suivi la seconde campagne en Espagne ou s\u2019il est rest\u00e9 en France pour \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9fendre l\u2019int\u00e9rieur\u00a0\u00bb du mot m\u00eame de l\u2019empereur. Toujours est-il qu\u2019il est r\u00e9form\u00e9 en 1810 et regagne son village natal. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Au c\u0153ur de l\u2019hiver 1816, \u00e0 27 ans, il \u00e9pouse \u00e0 Saint-Michel-en-Brenne Luce Prudence Canuet dont les parents sont les propri\u00e9taires-fermiers de la Bellauderie. Quatre enfants na\u00eetront de cette union\u00a0: Emile, Corn\u00e9lie, Clarisse et Alban. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4499\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/280px-Medaille_sainte_helene_1857.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4495]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/280px-Medaille_sainte_helene_1857-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/280px-Medaille_sainte_helene_1857-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/280px-Medaille_sainte_helene_1857-138x150.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/280px-Medaille_sainte_helene_1857.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M\u00e9daille de Saint-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne 1857.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Devenu huissier et vivant plut\u00f4t ais\u00e9ment avec trois domestiques \u00e0 son service, Hyppolite demeure Grande rue, l\u2019actuelle rue du Pont Malientras. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Il sera r\u00e9cipiendaire de la m\u00e9daille de Sainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, cr\u00e9\u00e9e en 1857 par Napol\u00e9on III pour r\u00e9compenser les 405\u00a0000 v\u00e9t\u00e9rans survivants ayant combattu aupr\u00e8s de son oncle pendant les guerres 1792-1815. D\u00e9di\u00e9e aux \u00ab\u00a0compagnons de gloire\u00a0\u00bb, elle respecte les derni\u00e8res volont\u00e9s du premier empereur (d\u2019o\u00f9 son nom) et deviendra la premi\u00e8re m\u00e9daille comm\u00e9morative fran\u00e7aise. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4497\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170629.resized.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4495]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4497 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170629.resized-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170629.resized-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170629.resized-86x150.jpg 86w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170629.resized.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre tombale d&rsquo;Hyppolite Mign\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cet ancien soldat s\u2019est \u00e9teint le 12 mai 1872 \u00e0 82 ans. Il est inhum\u00e9 au cimeti\u00e8re communal. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4498\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ACMN_med.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4495]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ACMN_med-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ACMN_med-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ACMN_med-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ACMN_med-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ACMN_med.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00ab\u00a0\u00c0 eux la gloire, \u00e0 nous la m\u00e9moire\u00a0\u00bb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">L\u2019Association pour la Conservation des Monuments Napol\u00e9oniens (ACMN), cr\u00e9\u00e9e en 1982, est charg\u00e9e de la protection, de la restauration et de l&rsquo;entretien des monuments, s\u00e9pultures et sites li\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re napol\u00e9onienne. C\u2019est \u00e0 ce titre que deux plaques comm\u00e9moratives ont \u00e9t\u00e9 scell\u00e9es\u00a0: \u00e0 l\u2019entr\u00e9e du cimeti\u00e8re et sur la pierre tombale d\u2019Hyppolite Mign\u00e9, situ\u00e9e dans l\u2019une des all\u00e9es des premiers rangs \u00e0 gauche. Dans l\u2019Indre, moins de dix endroits sont actuellement r\u00e9pertori\u00e9s\u00a0: Ingrandes, Le Blanc, Nohant-Vic, Saint-Maur et Villegouin. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sources\u00a0: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Archives d\u00e9partementales de l\u2019Indre pour les \u00e9tats-civils et les recensements.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">SHD &#8211; GR 21 YC-428- page 900<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Site\u00a0: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.souvenirnapoleonien.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">https:\/\/www.souvenirnapoleonien.org<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Site\u00a0: https:\/\/www.napoleon.org<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Site\u00a0: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/napoleon-monuments.eu\/ACMN\/Migne.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">http:\/\/napoleon-monuments.eu\/ACMN\/Migne.htm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Site\u00a0: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stehelene.org\/cgi-bin\/lh\/stehelene-search.pl\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">http:\/\/www.stehelene.org\/cgi-bin\/lh\/stehelene-search.pl<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cr\u00e9dit photos\u00a0: Chantal Kroliczak<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Autres visuels\u00a0: Wikipedia et ACMN <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depuis quelques mois, une plaque carr\u00e9e avec un N est appos\u00e9e \u00e0 droite de l\u2019entr\u00e9e du cimeti\u00e8re. Cette lettre, entour\u00e9e d\u2019une couronne de laurier, symbolise Napol\u00e9on 1er. Serait-il venu ou pass\u00e9 \u00e0 M\u00e9zi\u00e8res-en-Brenne lors de l\u2019une de ses nombreuses campagnes \u00e0 travers l\u2019Europe et au-del\u00e0\u00a0? Non, bien entendu\u00a0! Nous le saurions depuis fort longtemps. Il&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/un-etrange-n-au-cimetiere-communal\/communes\/mezieres-en-brenne\/4495\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lire la suite&nbsp;&raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Un \u00e9trange \u00ab\u00a0N\u00a0\u00bb au cimeti\u00e8re communal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mezieres-en-brenne","tag-histoire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230619_170220-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brenne-au-coeur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}