Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #44: Papus (Gérard Encausse)

'ICI REPOSE LE CORPS DE

GÉRARD ENCAUSSE

"PAPUS"

MÉDECIN PHILOSOPHE ÉCRIVAIN

GRAND MAÎTRE

DE L'ORDRE MARTINISTE

DÉSINCARNÉ

LE 25 OCTOBRE 1916

À L'ÂGE DE 51 ANS'

Papus (1865–1916), born Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse in Spain to a Spanish mother and a French father, spent his childhood in Paris, where he became a doctor in 1894. He became interested in the occult, and is one of the more colourful figures of the Belle Époque.