SAINT-DENIS
THE LOST MONUMENTS
 
Several monuments at Saint-Denis were totally or partially destroyed during periods of upheaval: the Hundred Years' War and the Revolution. Fortunately drawings of some of the monuments were made at the end of the seventeenth century at the request of François Roger de Gaignières (1642-1715); the artist was Louis Boudan, a printer-engraver whom Gaignières sent to the provinces to draw the tombs.

Below are drawings of monuments which have been totally destroyed; other drawings may be found with those monuments where some remains occur.

I have also included drawings of the complete monuments where the effigy, for example, is not in St Denis
 



Bronze monument of Charles II 'The Bald'
Destroyed during the Revolution for its metal
Monument in the St Louis series to Hugh Capet and Odo. Destroyed during the Revolution. The drawing also shows the appearance of the tomb chest and the gablets over the heads of the figures. Hugh Capet was the first of the line of French Kings until the Revolution to be buried at St Denis; there were only three exceptions to this. Original monument of Louis VII 'TheYoung'
This covered the grave of Louis in his burial site at Barbour Abbey.
His remains were brought to Saint-Denis at the Restoration by Louis XVIII; they now lie below one of the modern stones in the crypt
Charles VIII
This monument was of silver and gold and was clearly melted down for its metal content

Epitaph of Charles IX
Formerly in Saint-Denis
Entrails monument of Jeanne de Bourbon, originally in
The Church of the Célestins, Paris
Effigy now in St Denis
Monument of Léon de Lusignan, originally in
The Church of the Célestins, Paris
Effigy now in St Denis
Yves de Braine
possibly in St Denis

Jeanne de Bourgogne
Wife of Philip VI
Formerly in Saint-Denis
Jeanne de France
Queen of Navarre
Wife of Philip III, Ct of Everau
King of Navarre
Formerly in Saint-Denis (check)
     

Lost Monuments from Saint Germaine-de-Prés, Paris

Chilperic (584) Clotaire II (628) Bertrude (620)
Second wife of Clotaire II
Childeric II (673) Blitildis (673)
Wife of Childeric II






 
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