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Stele Marking Sieyès's Former House in Chartres

Le Passant · 14 July 2019

A modern stone marker in Chartres showing the site of the house where Sieyès lived from 1780 to 1789.

Marks the Chartres house where Sieyès lived before the Revolution, commemorating his pre-revolutionary life.

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A pale stone stele set in a garden bed among white hydrangeas, with a shop front behind it displaying a sign reading Le Passeur de Lumière, Antiquités, Librairie, Galerie. The stele's inscription is partly legible, indicating the site of Abbé Sieyès's house.
Stele marking the site of Abbé Sieyès's house, rue du Cheval-Blanc, Chartres. Photograph by Le Passant, 2019.

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What it is

This photograph, taken in 2019, shows a stone stele placed at the site of the house in Chartres where Abbé Sieyès lived between 1780 and 1789, on the rue du Cheval-Blanc.

Why it matters

The stele is a modern memorial, not an object from Sieyès's own time. It shows how towns mark the homes of historical figures long after they are gone, helping later generations connect a place to a person's life before they became famous in the Revolution.

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  • Why do towns put up markers like this, and who decides what they say?
  • What does the surrounding shop and garden tell you about how the site is used today?
  • What can a marker like this tell us, and what can it not tell us, about Sieyès's actual life there?

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