T his impressive tomb with the presentation of the Prometheus Bound is located at the Paris cemetery Père Lachaise in the 96th Division. It is dedicated to Paul Boucherot (* 1869, † 1943), a railway engineer and inventor who was in the rank of Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur raised to know how grave the inscription leaves. Unlike the myth, where the eagle Ethon Prometheus afflicts every day to move from its ever-renewing again to eat liver, it seems here rather to be a vulture, but certainly what the pain does not diminish.
Why Boucherot a tombstone was placed with this presentation is unclear. Perhaps it refers to its scientific or even anti-religious belief that when an engineer is not unreasonable. The grave, however, seems to hybrisch something, because not Boucherot of mankind has given something as basic as Prometheus who brought fire to her. Boucherot are some inventions in the field of electrical engineering due to the raise but not all of them feel that they have been exceptionally groundbreaking or radically. You may hide in the choice of representation Prometheus also doubt and self-criticism of the scientist to his findings. Now Boucherot but also not the theory of everything or the theory of everything found, such as Möbius in Dürrenmatt's The Physicists, which is why ethical doubts about the usefulness of his inventions seem far-fetched. Prometheus bears but because of his devotion to the man and his opposition to the gods of the responsibility for ensuring that Zeus create Pandora out of clay and put on the earth brought by Hermes to punish mankind for stealing the fire of Prometheus. Prometheus' brother Epimetheus accepted Pandora - in spite of all warnings - on the woman. Soon, however, Pandora opened the box and thus dismissed all the evils in the world, only elpis (Hope) remained on the bottom of the box. Thus the world is a desolate place until Pandora opened the box again, and so dismissed the hope in the world.
It is entirely conceivable that Prometheus, who was actually good for the people, had feelings of guilt because he had brought the evil upon them. But here is a parallel between Prometheus and Boucherot not recognizable. Finally, one should not exclude the possibility that Boucherot was a friend of the simple and the mythology Prometheus legend perhaps the legend was that he liked the most.
Despite all the speculations made above about the intended message of the sculpture, it can be stated that this is one of the most impressive figurative representations, which are located at Pere Lachaise. It is almost surprising that Boucherot not in the tomb of the city of Paris, published and made available for free brochure with cemetery plan occurs. This amounted to about 150 of the "most popular tombs" are (Sépulture parmi les plus demandées) listed. But was this combination, the focus rather on the fame of their deceased as to the artistic merit or originality of the tombs. Thus, some graves of famous people are all very valuable but spectacular or artistic. Some less known is, however, as the above example demonstrates, equipped with an absolutely remarkable grave stone.
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