Une parcelle du cimeti\u00e8re du Mont-Saint-Aubert est r\u00e9serv\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019inhumation de po\u00e8te.sse.s et de leur conjoint ou conjointe : une originalit\u00e9 pour la partie francophone de la Belgique.
\u00c0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1960, Robert-Lucien Geeraert, membre d\u2019Unimuse, imagine la cr\u00e9ation de cette singularit\u00e9. D\u00e9sign\u00e9 sous le terme de \u00ab Jardin des Po\u00e8tes \u00bb, il est inaugur\u00e9 le 8 mai 1971, gr\u00e2ce au m\u00e9c\u00e9nat du po\u00e8te G\u00e9o Libbrecht, une mani\u00e8re pour lui de marquer son quatre-vingti\u00e8me anniversaire. Il souhaite une aire en forme d\u2019arc de cercle o\u00f9 viendront se placer les tombes individuelles en \u00e9ventail orient\u00e9es vers la France. L\u2019espace est dessin\u00e9 par l\u2019architecte tournaisien L\u00e9opold Henno (Tournai 1907 \u2013 Id. 1993).
Le Jardin comporte dix st\u00e8les identiques en petit granit avec, entre les noms des d\u00e9funts, un court texte.
Les auteur.es : Roger Bodart (1910-1973), Gilbert Delahaye (1923-1997), Louis Dubrau (1904-1997), Maurice G\u00e9rin (1925-1999), Robert-Lucien Geeraert (1925-1984), Madeleine Gevers (1903-1996), G\u00e9o Libbrecht (1891-1976), Colette Nys-Mazure (1939), Rachel Poulart De Guide (1921-1990).
Une dixi\u00e8me tombe concerne Robert L\u00e9onard, professeur de diction au Conservatoire de Tournai et membre d\u2019Unimuse, et son \u00e9pouse.
(Source : Jacky Legge \u2013 Intersections. Des mots par-ci par-l\u00e0 \u00e0 Tournai : Anthologie pi\u00e9tonne. Marcinelle : \u00c9d. Walden & Whitman, 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Une parcelle du cimeti\u00e8re du Mont-Saint-Aubert est r\u00e9serv\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019inhumation de po\u00e8te.sse.s et de leur conjoint ou conjointe : une originalit\u00e9 pour la partie francophone de la Belgique.\u00c0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1960, Robert-Lucien Geeraert, membre d\u2019Unimuse, imagine la cr\u00e9ation de cette singularit\u00e9. D\u00e9sign\u00e9 sous le terme de \u00ab Jardin des Po\u00e8tes \u00bb, il est inaugur\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionperenne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unimuse.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}