“Sa die de sa Sardigna”: homage to the patriot Michele Obino in Paris
In the French capital, where he is buried, a ceremony to remember one of the heroes of the Sardinian revolution
In the memory of Michele Obino, one of the heroes of the Sardinian Revolution , a libertarian impulse that swept through Sardinia at the end of the eighteenth century.
In Paris, Saturday 13 April, the prologue of Sa Die de sa Sardigna with the homage to the priest and jurist , born in Santulussurgiu in 1769, forced to leave the island after being the protagonist, together with his friend Giovanni Maria Angioy, of the anti-feudal revolt. Find refuge in Paris. He lives in rue Saint-Honoré, celebrates mass in the Eglise Saint-Roche and works side by side with the jurist Guy-Jean Baptiste Target, a lawyer and notary with progressive ideas.
In the French capital he shared the bitter experience of exile with Angioy, cultivating, until his death in 1839, the hope of realizing the libertarian ideals arising from the Enlightenment culture.
Her tomb, in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery, was discovered, after long and laborious research, by Adriana Valenti Sabouret who found very precious documents in the Parisian archives which also concern Giovanni Maria Angioy (to whom she dedicated the book "Madame Dupont ” on the last days of the Alter Nos in the French capital).
The homage to Pere-Lachaise
The scholar organised, together with Giulia Olianas, representative of the Sardinian National Assembly (ANS) and the Corona de Logu , the ceremony to pay homage to the great Lussurgese, in front of his tomb - (which would need recovery and restoration), in the most visited cemetery in the world.
The meeting in front of Pere-Lachaise, in rue de la Roquette, at 11.30, then the transfer to the area where Michele Obino's tomb is located.
«On this occasion – explains Adriana Valenti Sabouret – we also want to remember Giovanni Maria Angioy and the other Sardinian patriots who sacrificed their lives for great ideals».
