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Cemetery of Sète
“Déférence gardée envers Paul Valéry
Paroles de chanson Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète
Moi l’humble troubadour sur lui je renchéris
Le bon maître me le pardonne
Et qu’au moins si ses vers valent mieux que les miens
Mon cimetière soit plus marin que le sien
Et n’en déplaise aux autochtones”
In 1966, Georges Brassens recorded his testament song: the one in which he dreamed of resting forever on a beach in the town of Sète. Impossible to be buried under a dune, instead, his body lies in the Le Py cemetery in his good city of Sète.
From Sète…
Georges Brassens was born on October 22, 1921 in Sète. He grew up in the working class district of Cette. At that time, the city had not yet stabilized its spelling in Sète.
From his father, he keeps the taste of the song and his anticlericalism. The song comes to him first by the poetry and Charles Trenet, his model.
After the Second World War, he became involved with libertarian activists. He began his singing career with Le parapluie, Le gorille and La chanson pour l’Auvergnat.
But his next dream would be to be buried on a beach in Sète.
… In Sète
Before his death in 1981 at the age of 60, Georges Brassens had warned his friends and his public: he wanted to rest in his good city of Sète. In Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète, he would like his body to be repatriated from Paris to his native town.
But the family vault is already “full as an egg.” Only one solution: to be buried under the sand of a beach. Better yet, he asked that a pine tree be planted so that the people who came to “see” him could be in the shade.
The cemetery of Sète and Py c’est tout
Yet it is impossible to be buried in the sand. He must be laid to rest in a cemetery. This will be the case in the Py. He then spent his death “on vacation”.
Facing the pond of Thau, the view is unbeatable! His grave, much visited every year, is not located next to that of Paul Valéry, the poet who died in 1945. It is to his poem Le cimetière marin published in 1920 that Georges Brassens pays tribute in his song Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète. The poet is buried in the city’s marine cemetery.
Between 50,000 and 80,000 people visit Georges Brassens’ grave every year.
Cimetière Le Py de Sète
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