Access: from Charles Cappellaro's grave, continue up Avenue Circulaire. Go past Transversale n. 2 and continue until you reach Transversale n. 3 and on your left you will see a tomb of the Cousin family. Okolowicz's grave is just behind, at the foot of the wall (Div. 79).

Born in Vierzon in 1837 into a large family (four of his brothers also fought for the Commune), a soldier in Poland, a singer, an officer during the 1870 war, he fought during the siege, became commander of a battalion of federates then a member of Dombrowsky's staff. Wounded and appointed general, he was captured during the Bloody Week but escaped from the Satory camp in September 1871. Exiled to Belgium, he returned to Paris in 1879 and ran a porcelain factory. He died in 1891. He is said to have planted a red flag in the hands of the Bastille engineers in March 1871.

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