Re: inh. cave L'eglise

Alain Sappey wrote:
> 
> Richard van Schaik a écrit:
> 
>> fritzfield wrote:
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>> I'm a bit bewildred by the use of "cave" here. > Richard
> 
> Don't forget the sentence is in french :
> "inh cave l'eglise" is an abreviation of "inhume dans le *caveau* de 
> l'eglise".
> In french we don't say cave (which means a place underground in which we

> put wine...) but caveau (which means a grave underground with walls in 
> which we put coffins).
> In France the tradition (16th, 17th, 18th century) was tu bury im****tant

> people under the church and not in the churchyard.

Thanks, understand its use better now (and I like "cave's" more than 
"caveaux" ;-) )

Richard

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